Dead Man Down Reviews

Movie Reviews

• 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 ]

• 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 ]

• an overwrought thriller brought to ground by its own contrivances

  by Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]

• 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 ]
• Reviewed by Joe Neumaier [NY Daily News ]
• Reviewed by Roger Moore [Movie Nation ]
• Reviewed by Calum Marsh [Slant Magazine ]
• Reviewed by Manohla Dargis [NY Times ]
• Reviewed by Nick Schager [Village Voice ]

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