Vendetta (18) **
By the lowly standards of
the Danny Dyer CV, this revenge thriller is semi-ambitious and actually partway
watchable, boasting enough conviction to strongarm us past its plotholes, and a
central turn that suggests its star isn’t solely knocking about for the
paycheque: for one thing, our Dan’s pwoper bulked up to play the rogue Special
Op whose pursuit of the ne’er-do-wells behind his parents’ murders sparks a
national security crisis. Writer-director Stephen Reynolds makes some effort to
interrogate this vigilante’s methods – pity he isn’t above the usual leering
business in lapdancing clubs, a slapdash attempt to pass off this very
newspaper as “London Today”, or a wildly silly, sequel-chasing finale, which
repositions Dyer as Canning Town’s answer to the Dark Knight, and does its best
to undermine the crude yet vaguely effective work elsewhere. Still better than Run for Your Wife, if that’s saying
anything.
Vendetta opens in selected cinemas from today.
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