Startlingly powerful, slightly loopy take on the revenge flick . . . offers a wry authenticity that the too-stylish, tough guys and gals in Tarantino's wanna-be-epics of retribution can't exude.
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02/01/07
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Dead Man's Shoes (2006)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:21
Rotten:17
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Though enhanced by cramped, gritty camerawork, this unsettling look at violence and revenge lacks the provocative edge needed to give it a substantial kick.
Theatrical Release:May 12, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Talented director Shane Meadows (A ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS) teams up with fellow Brit Paddy Considine (IN AMERICA) for this exhilarating venture towards the dark edges of the human psyche. Considine... [More]
Starring: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell, Emily Aston
Director: Shane Meadows
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Reviews for Dead Man's Shoes
Disturbing, uncompromising and completely gripping.
04/01/06
With Dead Man's Shoes I can get the thrill of a guy in a gasmask taking an axe to a bastard, while also getting interesting characters and moral complications.
05/12/06
Considine hawks a striking cipher, an avenging angel whose metaphysical communion with otherworldly energies is echoed in the film's unhinged, stewy surface.
04/24/06
This is a moral film without an agenda, a revenge saga that refuses to takes sides.
05/13/06
An original, complex, and utterly gruesome revenge parable...
09/04/07
Brit thriller, downbeat revenge story, but why can't the English learn to speak?
04/03/06
Like Park Chan-wook's Vengeance trilogy, it explores the nature of the beast of revenge, leaving the audience in a sweat of dread.
05/12/06
Top CriticA thorny take on the morality of crime and punishment, it's a back-to-basics guerrilla production that sees Meadows heading back to familiar gritty territory.
10/06/04
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06/21/07
...it's hard to imagine the film without Considine's amazing work.
08/04/05
As anger sumlimation, it's a useful piece of work--the filmmakers wallow in their need for the drug of revenge.
05/05/06
In a swift 86 minutes, director Meadows and co-writer/star Considine give us a methodical, handsome, emotionally intelligent version of the revenge flick.
07/21/06
Meadows ... very slowly builds to a powerful climax for this arty cross between Straw Dogs and First Blood.
05/12/06
Top CriticThough the story is formulaic, the bleakly naturalistic performances give it an uncomfortable sting.
05/12/06
Meadows [makes] a stringy pulp premise into something personal and passionate which builds from relaxed comedy into existential dread...
05/12/06
Atuações formidáveis (especialmente de Considine) em um filme moralmente ambíguo que, ao mesmo tempo em que funciona como maravilhosa releitura de Carter, o Vingador, analisa a natureza retroalimentadora da violência.
06/11/06
Dead Man’s Shoes is for the true connoisseur: a tight, well-made, evocative piece of filmmaking that recalls the extreme emotions in some of Sam Peckinpah’s genre-benders about retribution and vigilante justice.
05/10/06
Top CriticShane Meadows delivers a tale that's as grimly satisfying as it is sadly insightful.
09/30/04
What makes it intriguing and eminently watchable is Considine's deft almost low-key portrayal of what is essentially an avenging angel.
05/30/06
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