Wrath of Man | Statham & Ritchie

[Blitzkrieg]

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Cast & synopsis:-

Scott Eastwood, Holt McCallanay, Jeffrey Donovan, Laz Alonso and Josh Hartnett will also act in the pic, which is revenge story that shifts across timelines and between various character’s perspectives. At the center is H (Statham), a cold and mysterious character who works at a cash truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week.

 

[StarLord]

 

[StarLord]

Hey Mods, can you change the title of the thread?

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yeah, this looks ****ing cool. Ritchie looks to have utilized Statham well. He's doing the action thing but with Ritchie's direction and story, it's balanced out so he looks a bit more vulnerable and not just some unstoppable action star. Plus I'm glad to see Hartnett in this.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Ugh. Looks like every other stupid Statham action movie out there. Maybe it will turn out to be more than meets the eye, but that trailer had “Direct-to-Bargain-Bin-at-Walmart” written all over it. Shame to see McCallaby, Alanzo and Hartnett in something that looks so mediocre. Even the title “Wrath of Man” sounds like something you’d skip over while perusing your local Redbox.

I feel like Ritchie just needs to do goofy crime movies set in London (and sometimes even that formula fails him, like RockNRolla). The Gentlemen is the only good movie he’s made in like 20 years.

 

[The Chris]

I don’t know. I still remember being so shocked when The Transporter came out because I only knew Statham from Snatch so I think it’s kind of awesome to see him and Guy Ritchie reunite on a badass action movie after all these years. This is their 4th film together right?

 

[OutOfBoose]

Ugh. Looks like every other stupid Statham action movie out there. Maybe it will turn out to be more than meets the eye, but that trailer had “Direct-to-Bargain-Bin-at-Walmart written all over it. Shame to see McCallay, Alanzo and Hartnett in something that looks so mediocre. Even the title “Wrath of Man” sounds like something you’d skip over while perusing your local Redbox.

I feel like Ritchie just needs to do goofy crime movies set in London (and sometimes even that formula fails him, like RockNRolla). The Gentlemen is the only good movie he’s made in like 20 years.

Agree with everything, but RockNRolla is my favorite movie of his post-Snatch. Gentlemen was decent, but also felt like he did the same but better in his earlier movies.

Wrath of Man title reminds me of Seagal movies. Something like "A Good Man".

 

[Deck Rickard]

Agree with everything, but RockNRolla is my favorite movie of his post-Snatch. Gentlemen was decent, but also felt like he did the same but better in his earlier movies.

Wrath of Man title reminds me of Seagal movies. Something like "A Good Man".

I like... parts of RockNRolla. Mark Strong is a good narrator, Toby Kebbel is interesting and Thandie Newton is interesting as always. And it had two of the funniest dance sequences in any movie I’ve seen. But I read a review that referred to it as a “juggernaut of mediocrity” and that summed it up perfectly to me. Ritchie tries to tell a complex story full of colorful characters like he has in the past but so much of it just falls flat for me. Idris Elba and Tom Hardy are mostly wasted in it. Ludacris and Jeremy Piven are barely memorable. And Tom Wilkinson’s character just felt like a weaker version of Brick Top. Just my opinions though. It’s certainly better than his Sherlock Holmes movies or the god awful Revolver. I imagine that Revolver is the type of movie Zack Snyder watches and is blown away by its “depth.”

And yes, Wrath of Man TOTALLY sounds like a direct-to-DVD Segal title.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

I'll watch it, but it does look really generic. I was hoping to see something more in the vein of Snatch or Lock, Stock, but I guess those days are too far behind for Statham.

I do like the cast, but Statham once again being in the ultimate badass role just takes so much away from this because you know that mostly likely by the end of it he's going to survive while kicking everybody's ass's all at the same time which is always fun to watch, but I expected so much more from Ritchie.

I absoulutely loved The Gentleman and was hoping we would get more of that, but now I want to re-watch RockNRolla, because I remember not liking it back in the day and want to give it a second chance.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I'll watch it, but it does look really generic. I was hoping to see something more in the vein of Snatch or Lock, Stock, but I guess those days are too far behind for Statham.

I do like the cast, but Statham once again being in the ultimate badass role just takes so much away from this because you know that mostly likely by the end of it he's going to survive while kicking everybody's ass's all at the same time which is always fun to watch, but I expected so much more from Ritchie.

I absoulutely loved The Gentleman and was hoping we would get more of that, but now I want to re-watch RockNRolla, because I remember not liking it back in the day and want to give it a second chance.

Yeah I think that maybe this film would have more appeal if it had someone other than Statham in the lead role because you already know exactly what you’re going to get. And the trailer removed any sense of mystery or moral ambiguity about his character; he’s just another hero, armed to the teeth and out for revenge after someone close to him was murdered. I don’t want to see another movie featuring this boring trope unless Marvel gives the Punisher another go.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Looks like a decent action movie, if it didn't say Guy Ritchie was directing I never would have guessed from that trailer.

 

[henry_9305]

Good to see this film is getting some pretty good reviews.

 

[legendkillin]

I enjoyed it kind of typical revenge but also not typical because Statham's character wasn't some super human killing machine in the end. His kill count wasn't much in the final act.

I can say at the end of the movie my first thought was "Now hiring Fortico"

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Entertaining.
I had no idea it is was remake of a French movie , Le convoyeur, and I saw it back then.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

This wasn't bad, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't think this was a massive step down from The Gentleman which set the bar pretty high for me as far as what I expect when it comes to Ritchie doing this kind of genre fare.

Guy Ritchie can do so much better than this IMO and outside of the stylish direction and the solid performances its barely above the generic/forgettable fare that Statham has been putting out for like a decade now.

 

[OutOfBoose]

Well, promotion was pretty awful. It's a decent heist movie. I enjoyed it.

 

[Prison Mike]

It was decent but not great, IMO. Haven’t seen The Gentleman yet but it’s on my watch list.