Vendetta is the second film the Twisted
Twins Jen and Sylvia Soska have directed for WWE Studios after last
year's See No Evil 2. It's about a cop, Mason Danvers (Dean Cain) who
puts away a major criminal, Victor Abbot (The Big Show) who walks due
to a disappeared witness. When the criminal kills the cop's wife,
the cop murders the criminal's brother to get sent to jail as well so
he can get revenge. It's a straight up action revenge story.
Dean Cain may have been good 'ol boy
enough to play Clark Kent and all American enough to play Superman
but that Dean Cain is not to be found in Vendetta. Cain is a
relentless and determined force in this movie and he completely kicks
ass. It was awesome to see this, he truly is an underrated actor.
What's even better is that Cain still has that charm to make you care
about him and immediately root for him.
WWE superstar The Big Show also does a
great job as the villain of the movie. He just oozes evil and you
want him to get what's coming to him. Him and Cain have a great
chemistry in the movie and this is very important to the success of
the film. It's one against the other in a good old fashioned revenge
story and the viewer must believe the toxic relationship between the
two and the actors deliver on this.
Vendetta is a very slick looking film
and it moves at a brisk pace. The characters are introduced, the
story kicks off, and the hell in a cell begins. The music in the
movie has a simmering, tribal and industrial feel to it that adds to
the building tension of the situation. The Soska Sisters also don't
disappoint with the blood. Every gunshot and every knife attack and
fistfight is met with nice spurts of blood and oozing cuts. There's a
great scene where Mason kills a fellow inmate with brass knuckles. He
holds a pillow over the inmates face and as he pounds it over and
over again, the white pillow quickly turns red.
There are plenty of fight scenes in the
movie and bravo to the Soska Sisters for effectively filming them.
There are no blurred shaky-cam sequences with several nonsensical
cuts that hide a lot of the action. Instead we get coherent and well
choreographed fights that are a blast to watch. A highlight is when
Mason Danvers fights a group of inmates in a laundry facility and
uses a towel as a weapon. It's Dean Cain doing his best Jackie Chan
and it's freaking awesome to watch.
Mason's cop instincts also play a part
in the prison as he uncovers that things may not be as they seem with
the warden and his relationship with Victor Abbot.
Vendetta is a wild ride, an action
packed revenge story in a prison full of hardened criminals and
corrupt officials. It's gritty yet slick and simple yet engaging. And
it's entertaining as hell.
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