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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.
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Film plays as a quirky Brit riff on everything from U.S. slasher pics to revenge oaters but without Meadows' usual psychological complexity.
75
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.
50
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.
63
Very slowly builds to a powerful climax for this arty cross between "Straw Dogs" and "First Blood."
63
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Though the story is formulaic, the bleakly naturalistic performances give it an uncomfortable sting.
83
For all Dead Man's Shoes' well-paced, well-observed boondocks melodrama, its premise seems simultaneously slender and overheated.
40
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.