"Winnie Jones, how you slipped! ", "Jean-Paul Ly, what have you gotten yourself into?!", "Tim Man, what have you taken on?!" - these and similar thoughts visited my head with enviable regularity for an hour and a half straight. The film lasts approximately that long "I am Retribution 2. Reckoning". Of course, I didn’t expect it to turn out to be at least average, but it was possible to assume that the creators would work on the mistakes and some of the minuses from the original would either disappear or even turn into pluses. Yes, and considering the wretchedness the first part, it is relatively difficult to make things worse. But the authors are “great fellows” - they coped with it. In general, I was quite surprised to learn that a sequel was planned. "Do you like making bad movies?" - it flashed through my head then. Apparently, the answer to this question is yes.
The script is disgusting and super ridiculous, the direction is terrible, the acting - I beg you! The characters, especially the villains, are caricatures. I don’t even want to remember the level of quality of the action scenes. The whole plot is based on the fact that the main character performs the same Stu Bennett he needs to bring his good old enemy into custody, whom he would be glad to finish off on the spot, but an order is an order. In the first film, the role of the main villain was given to Gary Daniels, which didn’t help the film improve at all. In the sequel, the “replacement for Daniel” was the brutal Winnie Jones, who is perfect for the role of antagonist in any film, thanks to his evil face. But the result is the same: the presence of Jones in one of the main roles does not in any way affect the quality of the film. And so John Gold (Bennett’s character) spends the whole film trying to conscientiously carry out the delivery order, but he is constantly prevented from doing this by one or the other. The convoy seems to be moving somewhere, but it’s not noticeable at all. Most likely, everything was filmed in one place, only changing the scenery slightly, because the cheapness of the project is too obvious.
In the film, logic is lame on both legs, and the motivation, as well as the behavior of the characters, defies understanding. Some of them, such as the woman of the main villain, who in the gray surroundings of the film in her red dress and white fur coat among men with guns looks extremely out of place, are not needed by the plot at all. The villain's henchmen had the opportunity to deal with John Gold more than once, but each time they delayed the murder so unnaturally that it was immediately clear that only unnecessary tertiary characters would be killed here. At such moments, any comments are simply unnecessary. It's not even funny.
The action component is also sad. More precisely, almost everything. Shootings are a real shame. Probably, there is no need to stutter about the fact that no one hits anyone, even when firing a whole machine-gun burst at an enemy standing in a column at a distance of several steps in the line of fire. So they are also filmed disgustingly. It is absolutely impossible to understand who is being fired at. This can be compared to later films Steven Seagal. The hand-to-hand scenes are a little better. Watching male characters fight with each other is absolutely uninteresting, but when women enter the battle, everything immediately begins to play with different colors. Handwriting becomes immediately visible Tim Man. When the girls start making out either with each other or with someone else, the cameraman immediately starts filming as it should and the editing is more or less adequate. Although the lead-up to the fights and the conflicts between the characters that lead to them are often ridiculous, comical, simulated and drawn out so much that you are amazed. But what about Jean-Paul Ly? But no way! Firstly, he has little screen time, and secondly, he was not given a single full-fledged (precisely full-fledged!) hand-to-hand scene. The fact that he eliminated some extra in a couple of moves doesn’t count at all.
I don’t even want to talk much about this craft. I don't see the point in giving her so much time and attention. The movie isn't worth it at all. But, since there is a sequel to the already bad original, I wouldn’t be surprised if a threequel is made in a couple of years.
Sergey Volkolak
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Tags: I Am Vengeance: Retaliation, Winnie Jones, Jean-Paul Ly, Ross Boyask, Stu Bennett, Tim Man
Tags: I Am Vengeance: Retaliation, Winnie Jones, Jean-Paul Ly, Ross Boyask, Stu Bennett, Tim Man
I haven’t seen Jones in a movie for a long time, and Tim Man participated in the creation of Triple Threat and Casualty. Hope is a stubborn thing. And yet, the women's fights in the film are not bad.
In my opinion, with this film it was immediately clear what to expect. I don’t quite understand such violent disappointment. As if from “Kill them all” by the same Man and that bunch of outright garbage in which Vinnie Jones is starring, it was not clear what awaits the viewer. In my opinion, at a minimum, both of them did not fall anywhere, but simply did not get out of the micro-budget segment, where they filmed.