Wrath of Man reviewed by Mark Kermode
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- Mark Kermode reviews Wrath of Man. A mysterious man named H joins a security company transporting cash around LA. When a heist sees him exhibiting precision skills, his teammates are left wondering who he really is.
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I initially thought Josh Hartnett's acting was pretty weak in this, trying to be a tough guy just didn't come off at all.
Then, it turns out he IS actually supposed to be playing someone who just TRIES to act tough but isn't really, then it all makes sense.
Very good! Very good indeed!
He is one of the few good things in the whole movie, to the point you think he's good to have something of a character arch after all. And then he dies.
So surprised to hear Kermode likes Statham movie's. Was an OK film, thought The Gentlemen was one of Ritchie's best in years.
This film was filmed at least partly with Ritchie directing via Zoom cause he was stranded in London, which explains some of the perfunctory elements of it.
Just watched this film. Genuinely surprised how good it was. Had a Michael Mann feel to it. No stupid humour to spoil like like most modern films do. I agree with Kermode on the ending though. A massive build up, and then it just ends! But how else was it going to end to be fair. Its a revenge movie
This film sucked.
@@cdb5001 Watched it on Neon - its simply pedestrian - thought Jason might make it worthwhile, but even he could not take the pure yawn out
@@garyc1384 agreed. Pointless, no stakes, and I didn't care what happened to any of the characters.
@@cdb5001 Guess everyone has their day - Ritchie has made such awesome stuff, I was settling down for at least a good movie, but a hidden gem,. Was embarrassed for him - like it was ghost written by a 15 year old witj potential, lol. Sad
@@garyc1384 what's the last good movie he made? Sherlock? It's been a while.
I have to say, I quite enjoyed it. Probably the best Jason Statham film in a while too.
The dialogue was so contrived. Banter button set to warp speed, in a
totally unrealistic, forced kind of way. The greatest plot flaw for me was that you have some potential mileage out of not knowing the identity of the inside man. Some suspense could’ve been drawn out of that scenario but it was written that he just sits down next to the Stath and confesses. Very lame, very lazy writing.
I found this one to be a genuine surprise as someone who was going in with really low expectations and nothing else to watch at the theater that day. I was expecting another hired-hand project akin to "Aladdin" and while it's still not quite as stylish as Guy usually is, I though it made up for it very well by being surprisingly level-headed. It's not overly dark, had some memorable action scenes and even made all the more engaging by the end by having learned of both sides of the depo and criminals just enough to make that final charge tense. Much like "Raging Fire" as well, they both gave just that little bit extra to keep themselves from being completely boring and expendable with the other potential throw away thrillers this year.
Who'd have thunk Guy Ritchie would be rejuvenated after messing around with a big blue Disney monstrosity. He's in the best form of his career since the early 00s. This is a hard-edge crime thriller that takes no prisoners & delivers some intense action sequences.
Wrath Of Man represents a notable gear shift in
Guy Ritchie's repertoire. He's taking less from Tarantino or Scorsese, this is more of a Michael Mann joint. In fact there's feck all humour or goofing around like usual.
Also Jason Statham gives one of his best performances.
I rather liked this one. I went in with limited expectations, though I am a fan of both Statham and Ritchie, and rooting for them. This was a pleasant surprise for me. Some of the dialog was cringey and awful, but I still liked the movie despite that.
I find the normal Ritchie tone to have gone quite stale, so I did enjoy this more than expected. Although it does have Ritchie nicknames and some other staples, it was very different in tone. Although it's nothing groundbreaking, it did a decent job with tension and worldbuilding, and Statham did sorta seem menacing. The biggest plus was definitely the score and seeing Josh Hartnett on screen again.
03:25 I keep forgetting Ben Wheatley is directing Meg 2 and every time I'm reminded I burst out laughing.
yeah, that was definitely a "Wait, what did he just say?' moment for me
Bang on with this review...
I liked it. It's darker than Guy Richie movies usually are. I like how the story takes it's time and makes us wonder what Statham's mission really is (unless you watched the trailer).
Also, Scott Eastwood is GREAT as a villain. He looks so much like his father I'm not entirely convinced Clint didn't just clone himself.
Honestly a big surprise for me. Impressively bleak + violent, with a Terminator-esque performance by Statham and a great cello based score. And I usually run more colder with Richie than I do hot.
I unequivocally love this movie. Ever since Aladdin Guy Ritchie has been making nothing but hits. This is pretty far and away the darkest movie of his career and it’s awesome.
Wait this is just NOW releasing in the UK?
Loved the scorched earth scene and loved the characters suits in this film.
The Stath looks like the circling camera is making him nervous in that clip.
I actually thought this was one of Guy Ritchie's best films. Yes, it's a conventional genre movie but the way Guy Ritchies tells the story sucks you right in.
Awesome film. Statham has never been so menacing.
I saw it yesterday. I agree with everything said here. The only surprise for me in the whole movie is that maybe Scott Eastwood may have a decent start after all at following in his father's steps. (Though, for all his rugged good looks, he still has the charisma of a Q-tip.)
How is it that Eastwood has no ability to recognize faces? Why would you ask a guy you shot and thought you killed twice already why he's there and what he wants? Stupid ending. Would have made more sense if they left out the "let's have someone say something that makes no sense" dialog.
Good work, Guy! Slide off the glass entertainment that is fun and forgettable. Soundtrack made it fun and editing was great.
15 min into watching this movie and all I wanted to do was watch Heat for the 10th time instead.
This was far darker than I expected. All the torture stuff by his henchmen which only ended when they realised how reductive it was and told him it wasn't working.
Worldwide release dates are so weird, I forgot about this existing MONTHS ago, LOL, yet here y'all are just getting it. And he's *your* guy, too!
I worked on the truck scenes VFX wise (yes, uncannily they were not real....) and all I thought was I was doing shots including that guy out of Manhunter (netflix show). much fun.
Having watched and enjoyed Guy Ritchie’s films in the past, repeat viewing Lock Stock, Snatch and The Gentlemen, I was pleased to see this one pop up on Amazon yesterday evening and tuned in immediately, despite it being 119 minutes long and already just gone 11.
How I wish I hadn’t bothered.
It has nothing of his usual pacing, humour or plot characteristics and was a gossamer thin, dreary two hours.
Where in all the mentioned movies, the dialogue fair crackles and there are ample laugh out loud moments, here the script feels like a disaffected student’s half-baked homework assignment that got him thrown out of film school.
Sloppy action sequences, phoned-in performances and Andy Garcia’s stilted cameo offering more proof, were any needed, that he has all the acting skills of a flaccid cabbage.
The best thing about the entire movie was the name of Ritchie’s production company - Toff Guy, which amused me. Oh, and Eddie Marsan bringing out his rhotic r's was a mild highlight for the fractions of a second he was in the movie.
1.5 out of 10 - and that’s being absurdly generous.
I really loved this movie .
Not the greatest but solidly entertaining
I thought it was a lot more fun and acceptable than this review suggests. Sure, it is predictable and perfunctory as he says, but at least it's entertaining, something which cant be said about most of the films by numbers comign out these days.
I really liked this one. My main gripe is with the rather flat ending, but I found the movie to be very effective in what it was doing.
The fight in the depot at the end was such a letdown. For a film called "Wrath of Man", I was expecting the finale to just be Statham going into full rage mode and unleashing hell on the robbers with no regard for self-preservation. I thought he was going to take them all out but die in the process. That would've been more satisfying, in my opinion.
The ending was awful.
@TheBotleyBoy I think the ending could have felt better, but at least the thesis stayed consistent. The ending you're asking for would break the main character, or rather symbol on legs (since there isnt much character development). Hill is not the type to be a loose cannon and self-preservation is his 1st rule. Every punishment is executed swiftly, steadfast, and perfunctorily towards a higher motive. The consequences of violence are carefully weighed for the job... except of course when you must suffer for the moral collateral. He never goes for the money, he just does his job.
Why is Holt McCallany in this? He can do so much better. (And I actually like geezery Guy Ritchie) He was utterly brilliant in Mindhunter. I really expected him to get more high profile roles after that but apparently not. Hope his role in the upcoming Nightmare Alley will change that. Here's an actor who really deserves to become an A-lister.
Yes! Always hurts my heart to see him in anything that is not Mindhunter because it's usually something like this.
disagree fella's, it's good, in fact one of Guy's better films.
I agree
Not exactly setting the bar high
Fo sure. I don't like his films much but this one is pretty John wick meet Heat and that's pretty sweet.
I agree , what a class film !
Yeah, still better than a lot of stuff out there.
Am I insane or is this a film that came out ages ago? Are they only getting to it now?
Was only just released in UK (straight to Amazon Prime) this week.
But yeah was out in other locations ages ago
Yeah I was thinking that. I watched this months ago and quite liked it. Don't know why Mark is only reviewing this now.
The Stath is awesome 😂 this is no way Shakespeare but it is hugely entertaining in a bang, crash, wallop, boom sorta way
Love seeing Jeffrey Donovan getting bigger roles
I thought it did an incredible job building tension throughout. It's been a while since I enjoyed an English speaking action movie this much.
It's pretty good..it is rather perfunctory, and never quite delivers on its promise, but it's tight, a better than average heist action film
This was the first watchable Guy Ritchie film in years. His stuff had got so tedious and contrived but this was pretty good.
the gentleman doesn’t exist then?
Really late UK release for this... It was out in North America six or seven months ago.
*Wasn't this released earlier in the year?*
It was in the USA but only via steaming today
I thought this was an engaging movie. I enjoyed it. For those who like this type of movie, and Jason Statham, this is very watchable. Clint Eastwood's son is in it and it's weird to see how much he looks like his Dad.
Why weird?
Is this movie now appearing in the UK? I saw this earlier this year.
I was just thinking that, seems like a year or so since I saw this movie.
Yes, the film came out early this year at least in the USA...
I'm not sure what to make of this. I found that this movie just felt flat. As with After Earth and Will Smith, they stripped away Statham's personality and charisma and just had him pull the same stoney face for the whole film. The violence is grounded and brutal and the whole tone is very sombre. This does make sense considering why and what H is trying to achieve, but this is at odds with the initial shoot out from the trailer which drew me in. The nicknames and banter are painful, some of the acting is awful, even Josh Hartnett looks like it's his first movie and can't act. I also don't buy that that much hard cash is floating around on Black Friday. 😂
I really enjoyed this but I missed the typical Stath humour. I thought it had a cool Michael Mann / Heat vibe.
Watched this months ago and not sure where MK has been on this one. Also, like most of the comments on here, I liked it. Not amazing or groundbreaking but still a good movie.
Just watched this. Easily best Ritchie film since Lockstock and Snatch.
Can't really agree with Mark on this one. I found it really enjoyable and loved all the twists and turns. I am confused though as I watched this months ago so don't know why it is only coming out now in the UK.
movie tend to come out 6months in advance sometimes.
I'm more excited for the *other* guy ritchie film coming out surprisingly close to this, forgotten the name already but seems like it shouldn't take itself too seriously
Up there with snatch and lock stock I thought probably on par with HEAT and I don’t say that lightly
'Make them pay'.. Anyone??.... Come on... Surely I can't be the only one to catch this?...
I thought this was fair+ but hated The Gentlemen. I think his peak (outside Lock, Stock) was the Sherlock Holmes films. We are all so very different as fans I guess.
I agree, it's a pretty pointless movie. Criminal is wronged, kills other criminals who wronged him. So what? It was like someone tried to mash Heat with The Limey and filtered the result through Tarantino. But none of the characters had any depth to them, beyond basic motivation, and the action was less than captivating. Statham CAN do better - some of his scenes in the Transporter movies are indelibly inked onto my retinas. I actually checked the news during the climactic gunfight in this film. Even The Gentleman had Hugh Grant putting out a career-defyingly great performance. I can barely remember anyone's lines in Wrath of Man.
I Enjoyed this film it was better than I thought it would be
Pure vengeance thriller... No nonsense... And a career best role for Statham... Ritchie's fine follow up to a career best flik The Gentlemen
I enjoyed this quite a lot. Better than this review makes out i think.
The script was so risible - especially in the first act - it lost me in the first 15 mins. People just don’t behave like that to each other- like ever. And once the plot emerged from the ‘bantz’ 20 mins later the rest of the film was a plodding, predictable grind towards the inevitable - no twists, no surprises, zero tension.
I have to say, I found this Guy Richie film to be completely different to the others I saw. Dark and brooding with a haunting soundtrack, if a bit one-note.
I enjoyed it but the end is a bit anticlimactic with a logistical "how did he...?"hanging over it.
I thought it was enjoyable passed a Sunday afternoon can't understand why they hate the gentleman I loved that one
I really enjoyed it, but I enjoyed the Gentleman more and this seemed like a step.back and the chopped up timeline doesn't add anything.
It's not a bad movie at all. though I think Mark's right that it's in no way a challenge for either Ritchie or Statham to turn this sort of movie out as a weekend hobby.
It's not exactly the most intellectually challenging movie you're ever going to watch, and I don't know if the influence of the French original had must to do with this, but there are a few scenes and aspects of the film where if this were the traditional Hollywood cop/heist/revenge thriller things would have been very plainly telegraphed and spoken V E R Y S L O W L Y to make sure the popcorn munchers got it. But they let you figure the majority of it out yourself. It did get a bit "Just in case you weren't playing attention THIS is what's been going on..." toward the end, but this could have been a much worse film if they had taken that "Lowest common denominator" approach that the mainstream movie makers tend to apply.
its weird they are only now reviewing this, since Ritchie's actual new movie (Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre) is coming out shorty lol
Well it came out in American back in May but it's only been released [via Amazon Prime] in the UK today.
@@jamesatkinsonja Yea that is strange too.
I thought it was better than Mark gives it credit for. There was a lot more tension than these sorts of films have.
Loved The Gentleman and much of Guy Ritchie's work, but Wrath of Man felt like a disappointment as there were no major surprises in this. I mean Jason Statham's character has nowhere to go as he is already powerful and has no vulnerability. I like revenge stories but it needed more gore and imaginative (like John Wick) action to raise my pulse.
Ben Weatley is directing the meg 2?!!!
One of the more baffling things with this film was that the American cast all sounded like they were imitating American accents.
Just that clip was beyond stilted.
They shot a lot of it in England. Eddie Marsan’s accent is particularly poor
@@alwooga2531 The comment was wondering why American actors had bad American accents...
@@0ooTheMAXXoo0 they shot more than 70% of this film in the UK and there’s multiple English actors doing bad American accents, I don’t know who was in the clip but assumed at least one of them wasn’t American
@@alwooga2531 it was filmed in the UK with english actors? That explains why the characters seemed to be acting so homoerotic towards each other, they were just English 🌝
Loved it. 8/10
Why does everyone keep talking about this film like it’s new? Pretty sure I saw it back in the summer, like June/July.
He has a new film out in March
I found it to be enjoyable, but there some scenes that just didn't work for me.
98% of those who had an opinion disagreed with Kermode. The reason being we don’t all need boring 4 hour French films gazing at your navel to enthral us. Sometimes a rollicking good ride is what’s needed. It’s a fun film…
I enjoyed the film quite a bit
This felt like a step forward for Ritchie - best camera work I’ve seen in one of his movies and not headache inducing.
Jimmy the saint boat drinks🍹
This movie was amazing!
Jason Statham has four or five acting facial expressions, Roger Moore style. He used only one throughout this whole film. Still entertaining though.
Watchable is the most generous I can be of this. So many average/poor movies this year!
Disappointing overall. Or am I missing a trick being unable to accept that H is bullet proof or go along with the implausible ending?
Every conversation between each character felt unnatural and over staged. What a shame! watched Hummingbird recently and that was good, Stathom’s a T800 in this film
Ignore the reviews folks .. the movie is decent
I disagree 100% When this started I was ready for a rather mindless movie and I had time to kill but by the end of it, I honestly had a good time. Watched it again on amazon yesterday and it is even better. This is one of Guy Ritchie's best work.
Fu(k opinions, the stath rules and so dies any movie he is in. Guy riche just adds to the awesomeness.
From the trailer i was thinking, it’s gunna be great. Popped up on Prime today and I’ve just watched it. Just not worth two hours of my life. Disappointed 🤦🏻♂️
I agree.
Watched it today.
Yawn.
Quite out of touch on this one. I was thinking the exact opposite on each of your points.
Utterly humourless and unnecessarily convoluted - I was hoping for a fun, violent Ritchie/Statham mash up, but this was glum and extremely dreary.
New film?
that is exactly how i'd say it ends. flat.
The gentlemen, is an amazing movie. Seriously underrated. The screenplay/dialogue is really top drawer.
I thought it was a good cast; however, the movie left me cold. I got the definite impression that the main role was supposed to be a threatening bogeyman, like John Wick; unfortunately it did land for me. It reminded me more of Layer Cake. For a better armoured car heist movie, I'll recommend "The Money Movers" from 1978.
Mark has become a movie snob and cant abide the fact “perfunctory” = entertainment- not everything has to cerebral.
I have avoided Guy Ritchie like the plague for most of his career, but caught this by accident and it had me grinning throughout.
Yes a by the numbers crime caper, but a VERY accomplished one and i get a bit fed up with being told by critics that that isnt good enough and so equals awful.
Ha ha. Please see review of Greenland.
Bad things out of the way, so many of the accents were shaky at best and laughable at worst. His kids accent was the worst attempt at RP I’ve ever heard. Even Marsen’s accent, for someone who has such a high pedigree as an actor, was embarrassingly wayward. Perhaps having British people (all local boys he’s worked with before) playing Americans and vice-versa wasn’t the best way to tell this story.
The Actor playing Bullet sounded like he was reading lines off a script, and I’m pretty sure he was for the first 5 minutes of the film (look at the clipboard). Made me laugh out loud how robotic he was.
However the score and Cinematography were highlights, creating a cold, tense atmosphere (violin strikes and quick cuts will do that to you, just ask Hitchcock). Statham always oozes cool-ness with every outing, even if he plays the same character every time. Him and Neeson are becoming very good at that.
All-in-all: 5 gruff “Yeh’s” out of 10.
Can Mark ever like a normal run of the mill film, or that not cool!
Found it a rather unpleasant film to watch.
Needlessly brutal, unlikable characters, bad dialogues…
It seems like it wants to say something about the nature of violence in a macho culture, but it also wants to have Statham to be the badass, violent macho-hero.
And unpleasant mess.
Watch The Gentleman again! I didn't like ut on first viewing, it's a grower
This came out ages ago and only got reviewed now?
I've literally just finished watching it 10 minutes ago ... I kind of agree with MK, it felt like more like a drawn out episode of a TV cop show than a big movie ... definitely watchable, but just not memorable.
Usually agree with Mark on most stuff, but have to disagree on this one. Great film, one of Ritchie's best. Ignore the critics reviews.
Couldn’t tell if this movie was homophobic or homoerotic with the gay jokes the characters were doing to each other every 5 seconds. Like we get it, you guys are so straight and cool you would never secretly think about kissing each other all the time. The only thing I took away from this movie is that Guy Ritchie must be going through a mid life crisis and is having some confusing feelings about his sexuality that came out in the script or something 🤷♂️
Kind of want to go and see it now to check if this theory holds up. 🤔
Kind of want to go and see it now to check if this theory holds up. 🤔
@@KyleAButler Hahaha, give it a go I guess. I turned it off after half an hour because the film was just Jason Statham walking around a police precinct being introduced to 30 different men with nicknames and engaging in homoerotic banter. Like do I need to know all these people?!? They had less characters on Game of Thrones ffs! 😅
@Stephen Exactly! Glad its not just me who noticed. I really thought Kermode was going to mention this aspect but I guess his expectations of Guy Ritchie are so low that it slipped past his notice 😅
saw it ages ago. average.
at best
same here some how, standard Stath tough guy fodder, violent & entertaining.