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Mixed or average reviews- based on 14 Ratings

  • Summary: How far would you go to avenge betrayal? Colin Diamond is about to find out in this gritty, provocative thriller. After he breaks down over the dissolution of his marriage, he kidnaps his wife’s lover, and his rage pushes him to the brink of murder as his motley crew of buddies urges him to o exact brutal revenge. Ian McShane, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson and Stephen Dillane unforgettably co-star in this compelling story that contemplates the nature of love and asks what it takes to be a man. (Image Entertainment) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 18
  2. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. What enriches the recipe is that no one is quite as cagey as they seem. Colin is officially thuggish, but he's a blinkered romantic. Archie is a mama's boy, Meredith is gay, Mal is impotent, and Peanut wears dentures.
  2. 60
    A very strange, often terrible affair that is nevertheless mesmerizing, in a limited way.
  3. The film's action takes place mainly in one room, with the five characters posturing like angry macho men but slowly revealing their arrested development and juvenile ignorance of life in general and women in particular.
  4. 25
    There's a difference between exposing misogyny and crassly exploiting it.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 1
  2. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. This has got to be one of the most boring, tedious films i have seen in a while. although some good dialogue and acting, mainly by john hurt and ian mcshane, make this film more bearable at times. Collapse

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