Dead Man Down

FilmDistrict | Release Date: March 8, 2013

8.5	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 296 Ratings

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hoops2448Jul 8, 2013

Dead Man Down is the worst kind of film, one written hastily with so many side plots and themes that the central concept gets lost in translation so much that it takes literally a third of the film's run time before you find out that theDead Man Down is the worst kind of film, one written hastily with so many side plots and themes that the central concept gets lost in translation so much that it takes literally a third of the film's run time before you find out that the films even about revenge. The film follows Victor (Colin Farrell), a local kingpins right hand man who is planning revenge against the men who killed his family. However when Beatrice (Noomi Rapace), his neighbour witnesses him murder someone in his apartment he is forced to do something for her that may mean his downfall or his salvation. There is no nice way to say it, this is a bad movie, it lacks believable characters, a decent draw and a reason to root for the central character, in fact for the first 30 minutes he just murders people with no justification behind it just because they have guns (because that's a reason to kill anyone in action films apparently). Now Colin Farrell isn't a bad actor, in fact he's quite a good one but he needs the right material and the script in Dead Man Down is just confusing. It's filled with nonsense twists that just make its two leads seem like schizophrenics as it supposedly builds to a tepid finale filled with fake emotions and ridiculously overworked messages that are so heavy-handed it just annoys you. It's filled with uninvolving resolutions and one of the dumbest final conversations in movie history. Rapace has to cope with the worst of it as her character flip flops around unsure on what she is doing, so much so that in one scene she is hitting on Victor and then suddenly she starts yelling at him for no reason, none whatsoever. It's not just a poor script though, its so poorly filmed and packaged it doesn't even qualify as an action film because those scenes are dull and unimpressive. It;s a poor picture unworthy of its two leads.… Expand

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qamasterMar 2, 2017

Too far-fetched story. Inept and clumsy attempt to create drama on the military theme. Did not work out. I do not believe it. Not surprisingly, the professional critics gave so low assessment.

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AmadouIraklidisNov 10, 2022

Awful movie. What is even more upsetting, and egregious, is the transparent review boting behind the high user score. Not only are 10 reviews outright spam, many others are posted by accounts that either only reviewed this movie, onlyAwful movie. What is even more upsetting, and egregious, is the transparent review boting behind the high user score. Not only are 10 reviews outright spam, many others are posted by accounts that either only reviewed this movie, only reviewed this movie and a few others on the same day and none before nor since, or only reviewed this movie and spam reviewed other movies.

Inflating scores like this is embarrassing and plain wrong. If a movie isn't good, it isn't good.

Back to the movie itself, there wasn't much substance to it. The characters were bland, it was overly fast paced, gratuitously violent, like a c rated mr and mrs smith with more gore and less relationship appeal. The motivations behind the characters were not compelling. Not good cinema.… Expand

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