New Danny Dyer Movie - Vendetta

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Kermode is a legend, Dyer is a bellend reduced to acting in Eastenders.

I find both can be equally irritating. Kermode is something of a character but his attempts at humour are generally cringe-worthy and most of his reviews aren't all that interesting. He tries far to hard to mock films he dislikes and a lot of the time has such a smug attitude that you can't bear to listen to him.

Jumboman wrote: »

What was disgusting about it ? I think sean beans performance in it was very good. So were the other actors apart from danny dyer who didnt really add anything to the film.

The problem with the film was that script was all over the place and didnt really go anywhere. But atleast the ending was alot more realistic than Vendetta.

Jumboman wrote: »

The whole concept of any vigilante film is simplistic.

You could say the same thing about Harry Brown yet that was a great film.

Nothing to do with vigilantism but rather the motivation behind it and much of the dialogue is infused with a hate that's hard to like. They actively try to have you root for out vigilantes and unlike in films such as Taxi Driver or Falling Down the film doesn't challenge the viewer to look at them selves and understand why it is they are rooting for the characters. Were supposed to root for them because they're there, no other reasons and once you start to root for someone like Bickle or the Exterminator then the film has failed. It's also one of those films that mistakes graphic violence for entertainment.

Now, don't get me wrong in films such as Crank and The Raid the violence is why were there and it impresses yet here violence is ugly and exploitative. And not in an interesting way, characters exist simply so that horrible things can happen them. The Death Wish films at the very least had something to say but all Love is concerned with is how cool knifing a pregnant woman looks. It's also a rather racist film that's sole non white character is there simply so Love can deflect accusations of racism. I can imagine certain far right political parties in the UK embracing the film for the way it depicts Britian. Even the dialogue is peppered with horrible hate speech, look no further than the Bob Hoskins moment where he promises to deliver to our heroes "junkies, scum, *****, bullies, scum, the dogs". There's a repellant nature to all of it that makes the film hard to enjoy as even a bit of escapism, there's a genuine hatefulness to it that you simply cannot ignore. It's hard to enjoy a film which so obviously sets out with a distorted and vile ideology, the scene where Sean Bean complains about how aids suffers and suicide bombers get looked after by the government while neglecting the average white British man is stomach churning.