Rotten
A dumb-dumb variant on the Death Wish vigilante justice genre.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Seeking Justice
Vengeance always has a price
2011 · 1h 45m · R
Action, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Roger Donaldson
Overview
After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.
Director and cast
- Roger Donaldson Director
- Nicolas Cage as Will Gerard
- January Jones as Laura Gerard
- Guy Pearce as Simon
- Harold Perrineau as Jimmy
- Jennifer Carpenter as Trudy
- Xander Berkeley as Lieutenant Durgan
- Irone Singleton as Scar
- David Jensen as Gas Attendant
- Joe Chrest as Detective Rudeski
- Donna DuPlantier as Gina
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
27%
Tomatometer
Rotten
[Cage] acquits himself well enough in this otherwise rudimentary thriller from deliriously unsubtle director Roger Donaldson.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
It's a perfectly palatable and even engaging thriller, albeit one requiring several leaps of faith and/or disengagement with reality.
John Anderson, Newsday
Rotten
Donaldson ... seems to have lost all talent for pacing.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten
[Cage] shouldn't do any more movies in which his character signals his acceptance of a Faustian bargain by buying two candy bars.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
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