Dead Man Down (2013)
Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 87
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 56
While the fine cast keeps Dead Man Down watchable throughout, the film is weighted down by absurd plot twists and a slack pace.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 16
While the fine cast keeps Dead Man Down watchable throughout, the film is weighted down by absurd plot twists and a slack pace.
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Niels Arden Oplev, the acclaimed director of the original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, makes his American theatrical debut with the new action thriller, DEAD MAN DOWN. Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace star as two strangers who are irresistibly drawn to one another by their mutual desire for revenge. The film co-stars Academy Award (R) nominee Terrence Howard and Dominic Cooper, from a screenplay by J.H.Wyman (Fringe). (c) Film District
Cast
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Colin Farrell
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Noomi Rapace
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Terrence Howard
Alphonse -
Dominic Cooper
Darcy -
Isabelle Huppert
Valentine -
Armand Assante
Lon Gordon -
F Murray Abraham
Gregor -
Stephen Hill
Roland -
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Beata Dalton
Anka
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All Critics (87) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (56)
A way-too-leisurely thriller whose destination is fairly obvious from early on, but to which the talented cast apply themselves with effortful seriousness.
Top CriticExplores a common ground for noir thrillers before stumbling and imploding in a climax that feels like it might have been hijacked from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
While a mob thriller can be as nasty as it likes, what it can't be is silly.
More a dark fairy tale about vengeance than the action-packed crime thriller it purports to be, the film is at times exhilarating, bold, and beautiful -- when it's not busy being ludicrous, fragmented, and just plain stupid.
Dead Man Down is a very serious thriller featuring very serious stars being very serious about the seriousness at hand.
This blend of Scandinavian gloom and Hollywood hokum never jells.
Dead Man Down feels like two different films struggling against each other. One a brooding Euro thriller, the other a clunky Hollywood actioner. Neither really works.
There are a couple of decent action scenes but this is just too ridiculous to be taken as seriously as it expects to be. With a slight re-edit, it could be re-released as Naked Gun 4.
It's a modern-day, edgy love story at heart ... The climatic ending ... is pretty spectacular ... Though nothing new, it's beautifully realised and shot.
Needless to say, the whole thing builds towards a big shoot-out, but none of the action is executed with any verve or style.
Dead Man Down is a self-consciously dark movie that's ultimately let down by JH Wyman's script.
As with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Oplev uses darkness to convey atmosphere despite the overt crispness of the movie's digital look. Some old-fashioned celluloid grain would have done it the world of good.
A sturdy potboiler that's directed with a European sense of space and rhythm, accepting of character flaws, and generous with time for characters to breathe and develop at their own pace.
[Rapace] will be enough to send some to this urban thriller but the film will send them away disappointed.
By the time Dead Man Down descends into ultra-violence, you'll be long past caring.
Here's yet another preposterous action movie that's made watchable by a skilful director and an engaging cast.
It soon collapses into violent and boring nonsense.
A lifeless attempt to fuse a taut crime thriller and a complex psychological drama.
You are left feeling sorry for the actors who do their best, including Britain's Dominic Cooper, wasted as a dorkish gangster colleague of Victor's.
Oplev, who made The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, can do this stuff in his sleep and somnambulism is largely the style here.
This is too dull to function as a thriller and too silly to qualify as anything else.
A disappointingly by-the-numbers revenge yarn unspieled at great length ...
Any film in which Isabelle Huppert is cast and then given absolutely nothing to do is a crime against cinema.
Visual style and strong characters aren't enough to make up for a deeply flawed script that fails to make logical sense.
Scrapes a pass thanks to offbeat performances and a couple of enjoyably preposterous action sequences.
Dead Man Down is gripping.
Audience Reviews for Dead Man Down
Super Reviewer
Here is another movie that displays the ever filmable tale of revenge and the complexities involved. Dead Man Down brings forward an interesting challenge, as there are a lot of good things about it that I would like to recommend, even though I do not think the movie pulls through in the end. Of course, it is a challenge week after week to display my opinions on these matters, so there you have it. This film features several talented actors giving strong performances, some interesting story elements that do a decent job of separating it from other revenge tales, and some somber, but stylish direction in a lot of instances. For the most part, Dead Man Down plays as a very fancy B-movie, which is only undone once it drives a literal truck through its third act.
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Discussion Forum
| Topic | Last Post | Replies |
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| 43% Going up!!! | 55 days ago | 3 |
| Who loved it? I cant be the only one! | 2 months ago | 22 |
| A Reviewer: "Isabelle Huppert in a lovely cameo" | 2 months ago | 1 |
| Predictions? | 2 months ago | 38 |
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