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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
A violent and grungy film about revenge.
05/12/06
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
Meadows [makes] a stringy pulp premise into something personal and passionate which builds from relaxed comedy into existential dread...
05/12/06
the film is a failure ... does nothing new or especially radical with the normal revenge flick
05/11/06
Despite some hints at conscience and humanity, Dead Man's Shoes is a typical slasher film at the core.
05/11/06
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 CriticDead 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.
05/09/06
Top CriticAs anger sumlimation, it's a useful piece of work--the filmmakers wallow in their need for the drug of revenge.
05/05/06
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
Brit thriller, downbeat revenge story, but why can't the English learn to speak?
04/03/06
Disturbing, uncompromising and completely gripping.
04/01/06
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02/09/06
...it's hard to imagine the film without Considine's amazing work.
08/04/05
It's as though there are two completely different films uncomfortably mixed into one and they're just fundamentally incompatible.
03/24/05
Dead Man’s Shoes is never less than watchable, thanks to Considine’s performance, but it’s never really engaging either and there’s a definite sense of the end not justifying the means.
10/19/04
A 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
The film is filled with deeply unpleasant and stupid people whose vapid speech is largely incomprehensible due to thick regional accents.
10/06/04
The ending feels like a desperate attempt to inject some emotion into the film. And it just doesn't work.
10/06/04
Shane Meadows delivers a tale that's as grimly satisfying as it is sadly insightful.
09/30/04
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