A Vigilante

Name: A Vigilante
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Released: March 29, 2019
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Betsy Aidem, C.J. Wilson, Cheryse Dyllan, Chuck Cooper, Crystal Lake Evans

2019

METASCORE

Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews

See All

USER SCORE

Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Ratings

See All

4.7

VOTE NOW

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4.7	Your Score
4.7	User Score Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Ratings

Would you like to write a review?

There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. Please do not use ALL CAPS. There is no linking or other HTML allowed. Your review may be edited for content. 0/5000

Check box if your review contains spoilers

Play Sound

Please enter your birth date to watch this video:

You are not allowed to view this material at this time.

A Vigilante

Now Playing: A Vigilante

Movie Details & Credits

Saban Films | Release Date: March 29, 2019 | R

Starring: Betsy Aidem, C.J. Wilson, Cheryse Dyllan, Chuck Cooper, Crystal Lake Evans, David Shumbris, Estefania Tejeda, Jim Ford, Judy Marte, Kyle Catlett, Morgan Spector, Olivia Gilliatt, Olivia Wilde, Tonye Patano

Summary: A once abused woman, Sadie (Olivia Wilde), devotes herself to ridding victims of their domestic abusers while hunting down the husband she must kill to truly be free.

Director: Sarah Daggar-Nickson

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 91 min

See All Details and Credits

Watch Now

Stream On

Buy on

Stream On

Expand

Metascore

Positive:

Mixed:

Negative:

Critic Reviews

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Mar 29, 2019

The evident smallness of the production belies its power to disturb. It's like one of those knives that are small enough to be hidden in a coat sleeve or the lip of a boot but that can still cut a man's throat. Read full review

Matt Donato

Mar 25, 2019

A Vigilante succeeds not by exploiting torture, but instead shifting focus to Olivia Wilde's painful, so very real performance. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Mar 25, 2019

As an actress, Olivia Wilde has been something of a shape-shifter, but in this movie she seems to be burning through all her previous roles to find something essential. She grabs hold of the spectacle of agonized female anger, and does it with a grace and power that easily matches that of Frances McDormand in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” Read full review

John DeFore

Mar 25, 2019

A Vigilante offers some grim, imaginary satisfactions in support of real survivors who need whatever help we can give. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Mar 28, 2019

Daggar-Nickson gestures in certain directions, but for the most part she avoids deeper, troubling questions about retribution and violence. Instead, she concentrates on the genre basics, as in the movie’s admirably hard-core final face-off. Read full review

Noel Murray

Mar 28, 2019

The two sides of A Vigilante are ultimately held together by Wilde’s ferocious performance — which swings between steely control and eruptive emotion — and by the way Dagger-Nickson frames nearly every moment from Sadie’s perspective. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Mar 25, 2019

It conspicuously tries to distance itself from the revenge film’s propensity toward florid excess. Read full review

SEE ALL 12 REVIEWS

Write a Review

User Reviews

Flynn0r

Jun 1, 2019

Very emotional movie. Excellent performance from Olivia Wilde. It got under my skin.

0 of 2 users found this helpful02

RONSAIDIT

Apr 4, 2019

an interesting film a bit slow in places but overall a very good film, Olivia Wilde play's a good roll in this movie and is very watchable. film photography is great to look at also. well worth a look at.

1 of 3 users found this helpful12

JLuis_001

Apr 23, 2019

Surprising for quality rather than innovation. Olivia Wilde delivers the best performance of her career in this small but rough film.

The film undoubtedly has problems and most of all because of its desperate attempt not to look like a film of the genre in which the storry obviouslySurprising for quality rather than innovation. Olivia Wilde delivers the best performance of her career in this small but rough film.

The film undoubtedly has problems and most of all because of its desperate attempt not to look like a film of the genre in which the storry obviously develops, but let's say that it's an aspect that can be ignored considering the direction that manages to sustain the narrative in general.… Expand

1 of 3 users found this helpful12

Ralfbergs

Aug 16, 2019

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. While the movie talks about serious things that should be talked about and are quite important and makes you think, the story itself and how it is portrayed is really quite boring. I mean most of the movie is just showing characters doing with just quiet background sounds, like in silence. And it is quite predictable what will happen at the end - that she will take revenge and also quite easy to guess that she is helping others because of being hurt before. I mean I did not expect action movie really, it is more drama, but still, you can watch it lets say if you have subtitles with 4x speed and wont miss anything. Or just fast forwarding through also doubt would miss much.… Expand

0 of 1 users found this helpful01

Broyax

Dec 6, 2020

Un film issu du mouvement « me too » dans lequel une ex-femme battue s’en va aider d’autres femmes battues en corrigeant sévèrement les maris indélicats et mal élevés : une justicière féministe en somme !

L’idée et les intentions sont louables et Olivia Wilde porte brillamment l’étendard etUn film issu du mouvement « me too » dans lequel une ex-femme battue s’en va aider d’autres femmes battues en corrigeant sévèrement les maris indélicats et mal élevés : une justicière féministe en somme !

L’idée et les intentions sont louables et Olivia Wilde porte brillamment l’étendard et le rôle alors que son personnage n’en a d’ailleurs pas encore fini avec son ex-mari violent et taré, lequel ne perd rien pour attendre… bien au contraire.

Hélas, le film est très lent et décousu et ressemble davantage à un documentaire mal fichu qu’à un vrai film, fût-il de vengeances féminines… avec tous les poncifs que cela peut comporter, bien entendu. En vérité, le scénario est ici inexistant ou réduit à sa plus simple expression et d’autres films relevant du même thème sont infiniment plus intéressants que ce machin-là, poussif et lourdingue.

De fait, le film porte bien mal son nom, car le niveau de vigilance du spectateur est au plus bas… du début à la fin.… Expand

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

Mauro_Lanari

Nov 29, 2020

(Mauro Lanari)
Violence against women and minors dealt with under the law of retaliation, yet two wrongs don't make a right. Olivia Wilde becomes the Charles Bronson of private justice: when feminism takes the worst of masculinity (like in "G.I. Jane," Ridley Scott 1997). In addition,(Mauro Lanari)
Violence against women and minors dealt with under the law of retaliation, yet two wrongs don't make a right. Olivia Wilde becomes the Charles Bronson of private justice: when feminism takes the worst of masculinity (like in "G.I. Jane," Ridley Scott 1997). In addition, filicide is always the responsibility of both parents.… Expand

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

PhilMarks

Sep 3, 2021

Boring, self-indulgent, waste of time. It follows a predictable formula with the same climax as all other films of this genre.

0 of 0 users found this helpful00

SEE ALL 9 REVIEWS