The director and star mixed in the 1990s with “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” and “Snatch” — which highlighted the previous’s kinetic fashion and the latter’s brooding depth — however final teamed up on “Revolver” in 2005.
Adapted from a 2004 French movie, the plot of their newest collaboration begins merely sufficient, with Statham’s mysterious Patrick Hill taking a job working for an armored automobile firm that transports giant quantities of money. The enterprise is launched with one of the vans getting robbed, underscoring that this is not a profession for the faint of coronary heart.
Still, Hill appears to have extra on his thoughts than simply commerce, and the underpinnings of what actually motivated him quickly turn into clear. In the film’s one creative wrinkle, the important thing sequence is proven and reshown from a number of views, steadily filling in particulars about what occurred and why, whereas reinforcing the very fact (as if there have been any doubt) that Statham’s character is the worst man to get indignant this facet of Bruce Banner.
Taken on its phrases, the film is not horrible strictly as senseless escapism. But past essentially the most fundamental, visceral thrills, “Wrath of Man’s” bitter fruit yields a slim harvest.
