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I did not have sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.
This was a great story told with some jarring tonal shifts that spread from scene to scene.
Always play a film like this dead straight unless the emotional shifts are staged and paced in a way that builds as well as enthrals... in many ways the filming style of this was too accurate a representation of real life behaviour. Every main character seemed atypical of what I expected and the intrusion of inappropriate or undermining behaviours in or around important scenes irritated me more than once.
There is a weight of realism to it, the twists and turns are surprising but the performances were slightly too angering to be enjoyable. Aside from that everybody in it is making dreadful decisions with increasing regularity but in a way that deflates rather than fascinates.
It's effective, it makes sense and I invest heavily in storylines that homage how (almost)unbelievably screwed up things can become but in the end I think it broke too far from character convention, at least in terms of keeping anybody likeable enough to follow for two hours.
In short - Clusterfuck. But a well made one that was obviously intended to be exactly as it is and I can respect that, it just didn't do much for me.
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance - 2.5/4
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