Wrath of Man
A cold and mysterious new security guard for a Los Angeles cash truck company surprises his co-workers when he unleashes precision skills during a heist. The crew is left wondering who he is and where he came from. Soon, the marksman's ultimate motive becomes clear as he takes dramatic and irrevocable steps to settle a score.
- Released: 2021-04-22
- Runtime: 119 minutes
- Genre: Action, Crime, Thrillers
- Stars: Jason Statham, Holt McCallany, Josh Hartnett, Eddie Marsan, Darrell D'Silva, Scott Eastwood, Jeffrey Donovan, Niamh Algar, Andy García, Babs Olusanmokun, Raúl Castillo, Alex Ferns, Deobia Oparei, Laz Alonso, Chris Reilly, Post Malone, Lyne Renee, Rocci Williams, Anthony Molinari, Tadhg Murphy, Matthew Illesley, Rebecca Calder, Jason Wong, Alessandro Babalola, Eli Brown, Cameron Jack, Montana Manning, Josh Cowdery, Eve Macklin, Fernando Martínez, Stevee Davies, James Warren, Sam Shoubber, Daniel Joseph Woolf, Leonardo Lacaria, Khalid Ghajji, Anthony Elfonzia, Martin Bratanov, Phoebe Farnham, Mark Shrimpton, Dee Pearce, Cain Aiden, Stephanie Mae, Christian Sanderson, Luke Lynch, Rob Delaney, Puneet Tyagi, Gerald Tyler
- Director: Guy Ritchie
Comments
- tgoushas - 23 April 2024
Could use 10 min from the action toward the plot
On the surface, there's a lot to like about this film. It launched off going strong for a bit showing great potential. Then a couple plot and detail flaws unfortunately Derailed it. Just shaving 10 minutes from all the action to finesse the plot could have really taken it to another level. I would have loved for it to be one of my choices on the bookcase of VHS's next to T2 when I was 10.
On the surface, there's a lot to like about this film. It launched off going strong for a bit showing great potential. Then a couple plot and detail flaws unfortunately Derailed it. Just shaving 10 minutes from all the action to finesse the plot could have really taken it to another level. I would have loved for it to be one of my choices on the bookcase of VHS's next to T2 when I was 10. - aquamanian - 18 February 2024
Well made action
This movie did a lot things right. Statham is badder than bad, in the best of the best way. The details of the story are delivered in a clear, yet time shifted, way. Guy Ritchie and the crew nailed the sound design. The shots ring clear enough to make me look out the window to make sure everything is ok. Is that Biff from Back to the Future? I'm too lazy to check. Either way, he's great in this movie, too. There's always room for a revenge tale and this is certainly that, but it's actually well made, well acted, Statham owns every second he's on the screen. I always kind of wrote him off as a Vin Diesel, not totally serious, actor. No disrespect Vin, but Statham can carry a role. He can even carry a movie. A combination of Stallone and Bruce Willis, he's a legend in the making. Just needs more u er masculine parts to play. I'll watch every one of them. Enjoy this shoot em up. It's a good one. - ps33 - 4 October 2023
Surprisingly good Ritchie flick told from the unusual angle of a security firm
I've never been a fan of Guy Ritchie's mockney schtick which in my view was wearing thin even in the second half of his debut, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, let alone the many rehashes he has since generated. So I've been pleasantly surprised by his recent cinematic ventures in other directions - the Covenant is one such example, and Wrath of Man is another.
The premise of Wrath of Man is simple: a bystander is deliberately killed by armed robbers during a hold up of a money van. That bystander is the son of 'H' (played by Jason Statham), a hardened criminal and gang leader. His gang is unable to establish who the robbers were, so H subsequently joins the money van firm as a security guard in the hope that the robbers will attack another van and he'll be there to take his revenge.
Putting the film's protagonist in a security firm is novel, because usually security guards in films are nothing more than helpless cannon fodder for ruthless thieves. In Wrath of Man however they're the stars of the show. We learn what it's like to be, as one of them puts it, the prey rather than predators. This focus is also ingenious, because their vulnerability relative to the heavily armed thieves they find themselves pitted against means they are the underdogs and inevitably means the audience roots for them and H when he starts to take the fight to the robbers that cross their path.
But this isn't a Rambo-takes-on-all-comers blockbuster. Like the grim-faced H's quest for vengeance, the film has a slow but steady pace, as H first establishes himself in the security firm, his colleagues discover his steely determination to fight back and ability to take down robbers with whatever is to hand, and the robbers responsible for his son's death unwittingly put themselves in harm's way when executing a spectacular hit that forms the film's finale.
All the other aspects of the film are on point too: the menacing score that hints at the danger ahead, the editing and even the acting, from Statham's outwardly calm yet inwardly focused 'H', to notable turns from Andy Garcia, Eddie Marsan, Scott Eastwood and Josh Hartnett, whose career resurgence is one good deed from Ritchie I heartily applaud.
Overall, an unexpectedly novel and satisfying action film that bears repeat watching. - showem - 19 November 2022
Good bits here and there, but not very satisfying
I didn't expect much from this other than a mindless action film. That's what I found. The dialogue on the first act was pretty forced and improved when we got into the action scenes. Nice heist plan at the end, but the finale left me unsatisfied. I don't think there was enough connection between Eastwood and Statham's characters to make it fulfilling. Probably would have been more interesting if the last "baddie" standing was the inside guy, as we had had more character development from him.
All in all, it was fine. Nothing special, a mindless gangster/crime film with a few good scenes and some bad dialogue. At best, a 6/10
P. S. I did enjoy Post Malone's cameo 😄 - tonypeacock-1 - 25 September 2022
Statham/Ritchie combination return is a pleasent B movie surprise
Now from the outset I had some preconceptions of a film starring Jason Statham after a string of painting by numbers performances that often strayed into a one man action man B movie. Don't get me wrong this film has the usual traits of a Statham film but directed at a higher level by Guy Ritchie.
I was surprised just how much I got into this film produced and theatrically released/delayed/shelved in some territories during the COVID pandemic.
Jason Statham plays a character Patrick Hill, nicknamed H who drives security cash trucks around. A dangerous job in this movie when said trucks are robbed. Quelle the usual Statham filled violence.
Statham delivers a decent performance in this vehicle from director Guy Ritchie. A return to a combination not seen since 2005. However I was left confused at times with several timelines throughout the run time.
A fairly decent B action flick. It didn't even get a theatrical run in the UK and went straight to a streaming platform but don't let that put you off this dark, non-linear action piece.
