Wrath of Man (Digital/DVD)

The Wrath of Statham!!! One of his best if not the best of his films! Grab some popcorn, your honey and have a great and very tense time watching this action film with more to it than you think! Plus, Scott Eastwood is soooooo great in this also. Yes, Clint’s son. We need more Eastwood! I wish Warner Bros. would’ve put this out on the 4K format. Don’t know why they chose not to. But, don’t let that stop you from getting it on Blu-ray though!!! Oh, Amazon Prime has it in 4K for rental or to own.

I love me some Jason Statham and he does not disappoint. Plenty of action and great story.

This may be the darkest film Guy Ritchie has made. It’s a mix of heist film- the typical film he has made a ton of times now- but it’s told in a way that’s jumbled up.
I found the organization of A to B storytelling the weakest part of the film. Mostly because there’s a lot of time that passes in parts of the film that are out of order with other parts of the film so it’s hard to tell what’s going on some times. I don’t need a film to be simple, but I just don’t think this part of the narrative was done very well.
There’s great casting here, even Josh Hartnett reappears for some reason, looking older and not much like you remember him at all.
Overall, I think the film is really interesting, and I really appreciated the action. Even though Statham is in this there is very little martial fighting- it’s almost all gun play. Because of the modern social climate on guns maybe that’s why there so many movies that focus more on fisticuffs, but it’s nice to see a focus on it as the action from time to time. I don’t know if this makes sense, of course there are movies with gun play all the time, but the focus in this movie is such that the action is more on gun play and I appreciated that.
I think the only major problem I might have with this movie is that because of the way it’s told it would be hard to watch it again because so much of the movie is setup and the last third is almost a completely different movie. It starts off a mystery, but by the last third reveal it’s not even as much about Statham anymore as it was because there are so many yarns to unravel. It does it well, but rewatching it could be frustrating because you already know where it goes, and the way it’s told it is not giving you clues along the way, or things that you might have missed, it just retells parts of the story from another angle so you get more of the mystery enlightened and so if you watched it again you’d have small elements at a time that could be aggravating to sit through again because you already know where it’s going to go.
That’s a nit pick, and probably meaningless to most people. Anyway, it’s so strange that Guy Ritchie made that Aladdin movie he made- that was really really bad- but at least it lead to him being able to do real movies again. I’ve liked his output since.
I have a hard time writing positive reviews a lot of the time. I don’t like to gush, but when a movie is well made there’s not much to say beyond that. Just know this movie goes really dark, and by the end nobody really wins. There’s a clear influence from The Departed in that aspect.

Best Jason Stathum movie would pair well with Den Of Thieves