Suppose Armand Assante had played the mother, not as a father, as a mother. Suppose Isabelle Huppert had taken the Colin Farrell part. This may be no more than playful, but heaven knows Dead Man Down needs as much of that as it can get.
Dead Man Down
Blood demands blood
2013 · 1h 58m · R
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Niels Arden Oplev
Overview
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
Director and cast
- Niels Arden Oplev Director
- Colin Farrell as Victor
- Noomi Rapace as Beatrice
- Terrence Howard as Alphonse
- Dominic Cooper as Darcy
- Raw Leiba as Toilet Guy
- Raymond Mamrak as NYPD Officer Daniels
- Franky G as Luco
- Jennifer Mudge as Florence
- Jennifer Butler as Jeep Driver
- Isabelle Huppert as Valentine Louzon
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
A way-too-leisurely thriller whose destination is fairly obvious from early on, but to which the talented cast apply themselves with effortful seriousness.
Explores a common ground for noir thrillers before stumbling and imploding in a climax that feels like it might have been hijacked from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
While a mob thriller can be as nasty as it likes, what it can't be is silly.
More a dark fairy tale about vengeance than the action-packed crime thriller it purports to be, the film is at times exhilarating, bold, and beautiful -- when it's not busy being ludicrous, fragmented, and just plain stupid.
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