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.
Dead Man's Shoes
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United Kingdom · 2004
Rated R · 1h 30m
Director Shane Meadows
Starring Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell, Jo Hartley
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Richard, a former soldier, comes back to his hometown in Derbyshire, England. Once there, Richard proceeds to take gradually escalating revenge on the gang of drug dealers who had been tormenting his mentally disabled younger brother in this gritty thriller about the nature of violence.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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