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Dead Man Down

Overview


Genre :

Action, Thriller

Release Date :

March 08, 2013

MPAA Rating :

R

Director :

Niels Arden Oplev

Starring :

Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Cooper, Terrence Howard, Isabelle Huppert, Armand Assante, Franky G

REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Not quite bad, but it's not recommended either.    Readers  Be the 1st!

“..Tarantino meets Hitchcock in Niels Arden Oplev's smartly cast if uninspired American debut..”
by Michael Rechtshaffen [Hollywood Reporter]
“..screenwriter J.H. Wyman has been spending his recent years running the outer limits of Fox's "Fringe," but "Dead Man Down" is truly a game of shadows..”
by Betsy Sharkey [LA Times]
2 of 4

“..before this urban revenge melodrama falls apart in a clatter of plot absurdities and pretensions, it has its loopy charms..”
by Ty Burr [Boston Globe]
2 of 4

“..an overwrought thriller brought to ground by its own contrivances..”
by Peter Howell [Toronto Star]
2 of 4

“..a thriller that doesn't thrill, though it does, sometimes make us laugh..”
by Claudia Puig [USA Today]
“..a derivative collection of brazen plot holes and latenight-cable cliches..”
by Peter Debruge [Variety]
3 of 5
Reviewed by Joe Neumaier [NY Daily News]
1.5 of 4
Reviewed by Roger Moore [Movie Nation]
1 of 4
Reviewed by Calum Marsh [Slant Magazine]
Reviewed by Manohla Dargis [NY Times]
Reviewed by Nick Schager [Village Voice]

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