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Dead Man Down

#1 Post by Livi92 » Sun May 05, 2013 6:54 pm

imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2101341/

trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0zBLStH ... r_embedded

Couldn't see a thread for this, so I thought I'd start one. Anyone seen it yet?

I saw it on Friday and absolutely loved it. Lots of action, drama and a touch of romance.

7/10
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#2 Post by funthing29 » Mon May 06, 2013 3:47 pm

I found this to be unremarkable. Script and characters were rather bland and the action sequences were not that impressive. The main issue I found is that Colin Farrell seemed like a poor casting choice and was not very believable. 5.5/10.
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#3 Post by raj101 » Fri May 10, 2013 7:29 pm

2nd the poor casting, Colin as an Irish sounding Hungarian, not sure if that was supposed to be a (crap) in-joke.


Great concept, poor delivery. The best parts weren't the action, they were with the oblivious deaf mother - which for an action movie, isn't much cop. Pity, it was quite a compelling plot. The last scenes, surely the most important for such a story, are some of the movies worst parts. Dragon tattoo girl was great, mind you.

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#4 Post by Flabber » Tue May 28, 2013 6:09 pm

raj101 wrote:2nd the poor casting, Colin as an Irish sounding Hungarian, not sure if that was supposed to be a (crap) in-joke.


Great concept, poor delivery. The best parts weren't the action, they were with the oblivious deaf mother - which for an action movie, isn't much cop. Pity, it was quite a compelling plot. The last scenes, surely the most important for such a story, are some of the movies worst parts. Dragon tattoo girl was great, mind you.

6/10
Agreed, could have been so much better had the casting and delivery been better. Farrell almost seemed like he couldn't be bothered. Maybe it was the [spoiler]deep sense of injustice that was keep him from showing his emotions...[/spoiler]
Noomi was ace though! o/

solid 6/10
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#5 Post by Flabber » Tue May 28, 2013 6:10 pm

raj101 wrote:2nd the poor casting, Colin as an Irish sounding Hungarian, not sure if that was supposed to be a (crap) in-joke.


Great concept, poor delivery. The best parts weren't the action, they were with the oblivious deaf mother - which for an action movie, isn't much cop. Pity, it was quite a compelling plot. The last scenes, surely the most important for such a story, are some of the movies worst parts. Dragon tattoo girl was great, mind you.

6/10
Agreed, could have been so much better had the casting and delivery been better. Farrell almost seemed like he couldn't be bothered. Maybe it was the [spoiler]deep sense of injustice that was keep him from showing his emotions...[/spoiler]
Noomi was ace though! o/

solid 6/10
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Re: Dead Man Down

#6 Post by RickyRaj » Mon Jun 17, 2013 1:20 pm

A so-so film with fairly good action. Story was quite interesting but cliched by the ending I think. 6.5/10
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