metacritic.com: Outlaw

Outlaw

Starring Sean Bean, Sean Harris, Lennie James, Bob Hoskins, Rupert Friend, and Danny Dyer

MPAA RATING: R for violence, pervasive language and brief sexuality/nudity.

Magnolia Pictures
Action | Crime
103 minutes | Color
UK
Released In Theaters December 14, 2007

London: present day. In lawless streets the guilty are left unhindered to go about their business. Returning from a tour of duty in Iraq, former Paratrooper Bryant is appalled by what he sees in a country he no longer recognizes. Determined to do something about it, he assembles a group of like minded souls who resolve to restore the balance between right and wrong, good and evil, enforcing justice with a brutality to match that of the once unpunished, unsuspecting wrongdoers. But when the law of the land is co-opted in this way, who decides when enough is enough? (Magnolia)

WRITTEN BY
Nick Love

DIRECTED BY
Nick Love

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

45 / 100

Critic Reviews

70	Variety Both the pic's power and its problems stem from Love deliberately taking no moral position nor offering any solutions; he gives his audience what it wants at a gut level and doesn't wimp out at the end.
60	The Hollywood Reporter Brainlessly entertaining action picture.
25	San Francisco Chronicle David Wiegand Oliver Twist" meets "A Clockwork Orange" meets a reckless abandonment of credibility.
20	Empire The kind of film the tabloids will call to ban. Don't take that as a reason to see it.

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