Monday, February 8, 2021

'Vendetta' (2013) - Stephen Reynolds.

You can certainly tell when one is addressing a mentally-voluptuous, veteran collector of vainglorious celluloid villainy, when said stalwart individual proudly extols the bellicose, British-Steeled, Brimstone and Bullets, B-movie virtues of a criminally underrepresented, Teflon-tough, bacon n' dregs, gun-happy geezer fuelled thriller like Stephen Reynolds's scum-slaying serenade 'Vendetta'.

TV phooken royalty, masterfully muck-mouthed Thug Movie technician, 'Diamond' Danny Dyer is a true credit to his luridly laddish, cockney-hued craft, delivering a feisty, larger-than-life, trouble-and-strife'd, yet entirely sympathetic, finely nuanced performance as a single-minded murder-mentalist, an emotionally-damaged, highly-trained ex-military misfit who has returned home after an especially fraught tour of duty to an anything but heart-warming welcome! The seemingly lawless, drug-raddled, 'Hateful-Hoodie' run city streets he is now grimly confronted with, proving to be no less of a clear and present danger to him than the brutal war zones he only just narrowly survived!

When the appointed system all-too frequently turns a blind eye to the iniquitous perpetrators of violent street crime, when an indifferent police force remains all-too frequently deaf to the victim’s needful cries for justice, it is only the most righteous among us who will have the indomitable spirit to bloodily pluck out the offending orbs of those that have maligned them so egregiously! Because even the most broken, beleaguered and disenfranchised of men, with a glimmer of love in his heart can still make a difference! While it has been oft said that two wrongs don’t make a right, if enjoying Danny Dyer’s righteously revenging bloodbath is wrong, I never want to be right again, mayte!


 



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