Dead Man's Shoes

Village Voice by

Dead Man's Shoes is all about revenge, but in trying to be one of those serious revenge films that questions violence while indulging in it, it manages to keep virtually all the characters unsympathetic and uninteresting.

Variety by Derek Elley

Film plays as a quirky Brit riff on everything from U.S. slasher pics to revenge oaters but without Meadows' usual psychological complexity.

New York Daily News by Jami Bernard

This is no simplistic vigilante movie. Like Park Chan-wook's "Vengeance" trilogy, it explores the nature of the beast of revenge, leaving the audience in a sweat of dread.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

The imagery is exotically grungy and jumbled by flashback, but in the end, the picture's more pulp than juice.

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

Very slowly builds to a powerful climax for this arty cross between "Straw Dogs" and "First Blood."

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Though the story is formulaic, the bleakly naturalistic performances give it an uncomfortable sting.

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

For all Dead Man's Shoes' well-paced, well-observed boondocks melodrama, its premise seems simultaneously slender and overheated.

The Hollywood Reporter by Ray Bennett

The film is filled with deeply unpleasant and stupid people whose vapid speech is largely incomprehensible due to thick regional accents.