![]() ![]() He gets a good telling-off at the funeral by his father in law (the great Robert Forster). Counselor Frank Valera (Banderas) is their enemy, after all.īut Frank has seen a vengeance picture or three, he knows the arc his story must follow. The cops seem under-motivated to find the killer or killers. He wasn’t there, “working late” yet again. It’s about a criminal defense lawyer forced to consider what he does and how he lives his life when his wife and child are murdered. ![]() Yeah, it leans heavily on those aforementioned tropes, but that comes with the turf. So consider “Acts of Vengeance,” an Antonio Banderas thriller that sets up a nice counter argument to the gory gun-crazy/bored Bruce Willis bomb that is “Death Wish.” It’s got a high-minded hook, a committed cast, righteous brawls and beatdowns. But even when they do, it’s rare that you run across one that manages much in the line of surprise. Vengeance thrillers are a B-movie staple, C or D movie when they don’t execute the genre tropes well. The sour taste Eli Roth’s new “Death Wish” left in my mouth has me scouring the genre picture lists on Netflix, looking for a suitable palette cleanser.
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