Wrath of Man

Fine form with some old-fashioned shoot-’em-up fun.

For all its flip-flops, there's never anything engaging or surprising. Very perfunctory.

A leaden, blood-spattered and painfully predictable trudge towards an anticlimax that is as joyless as it is expected.

Rough at the edges and with a propensity for cartoonish violence, this is an action caper hewn in the image of its star.

Guy Ritchie delivers a nice surprise: an LA neo-noir with high-voltage action and an ice-cube-cool Statham. If it gets a bit tangled up in its time-hopping reveals, it's largely an enjoyable, rattlesnake-mean thriller.

Nothing in Wrath of Man suggests that Ritchie is having fun anymore-not with the crime genre, and not with filmmaking.

...this is the best film [by Jason Statham] in a long time, and the best version of a "controlled" Ritchie, in terms of telling the story well. [Full review in Spanish]

Whenever it starts to slip, it’ll introduce some new character beat or interesting sequence to salvage itself.

Although the script is based on the previous text of the French film Le Convoyeur (2004), Ritchie completely appropriates the story and gives it his imprint, completely changing the tone and the poetics of it.

WRATH OF MAN is an excellent action film made with talent and professionalism through and through. It won’t surprise you at any turn, but there’s a safety in that kind of predictability.