Dead Man Down Reviews
Urban Cinefile
The plot takes a bit too long to get any traction and consequently the film feels rather long. Still, I like the fusion of Hollywood and European filmmaking sensibilities
Urban Cinefile
Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace are a knockout combination, their relationship grounded on a knife's edge of destruction
HeyUGuys
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Common Sense Media
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Contactmusic.com
Here's yet another preposterous action movie that's made watchable by a skilful director and an engaging cast.
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| Original Score: 3/5
ViewLondon
Scrapes a pass thanks to offbeat performances and a couple of enjoyably preposterous action sequences.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Birmingham Post
Dead Man Down is gripping.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Empire Magazine
A pleasingly intricate double (or is it triple?) revenge plot anchored by excellent acting, with a terrific burst of action at the climax.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Total Film
A jagged, unbalanced (in every sense) revenge flick that nonetheless offers up twists and brooding noir-ness.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Movies With Butter
The brightest attraction in this gripping potboiler is the cast, which is loaded to the gills with high pedigree actors like Isabelle Huppert, who comes just shy of stealing the show as Rapace's comically deaf mother.
jackiekcooper.com
Once again Farrell is better than the material he is given - so is Rapace.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Killer Movie Reviews
Though rife with elements that will get it categorized as an action flick, this film aspires to be a psychological thriller as well, and it almost succeeds.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Schmoes Know
F. Murray Abraham and Armand Assante are criminally underused, but this is an engrossing film that has a well-told story and for that I'd say it makes a good outing at the theater or a great rental option.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
ScreenRant
Dead Man Down is two-thirds of a film for the arthouse/indie crowd with a third leftover for the mindless action-lover.
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| Original Score: 3/5
EURWeb
Though the wheels gradually come off the increasingly-preposterous production, all is forgiven on account of the convoluted adventure's compelling storyline, arresting special f/x, and satisfying, if farfetched resolution.
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| Original Score: 3/4
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
Three great action scenes and stellar acting from Farrell and Rapace make this a very solid thriller.
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| Original Score: 7/10
PopMatters
(W)hat we have here is both foreign and familiar, yet another intriguing, if incomplete take on an age old Hollywood crime genre from someone far removed from it.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Television Without Pity
This is, at heart, a melodrama cloaked in action movie clothing.
Top CriticYep, there's a whole lot going on here, but this is one of those plot-heavy scripts that carries its weight with confidence - the intricate twists don't cheat.
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| Original Score: 3/4
