It's rare that you can spend 80% of a film more-or-less being
entertained by it, only to have it's ending come and you become
completely resentful of the damn thing. I found the premise titillating
and I was hooked enough to want to know how it would end. I won't go
into spoilers in case people still want to see it - but this is
essentially about a man whose wife and daughter are murdered and the
person responsible gets off on a light sentence by making a bargain, and
about how the widowed husband decides to make the law learn a lesson.
Considering
it's a message film I found the message to be buried a bit, and
completely abandoned by the films final act. I bought into the face
that Gerard could make all of this work, but I don't buy into the ending
- at all. Feels like an awfully large cheat. Again, no spoilers and
judge for yourself.
If you're a fan of the premise (as I was) check it out, and hopefully you aren't as disappointed by it's ending as I was.
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