This film is Underestimated.

Sorry, there is absolutely no contest between this, and Dead Mans Shoes.
ISWID falls down on so many counts, the casting (and characters) is painfully obvious, cliches abound, the plot has more holes than than a block of Emmental.
I feared for future success when Chancer came on TV years ago, Clive Owen is a BAD ACTOR - it is easy to be broody with a face like that. Closer? Well, an interesting script, but that too was over hyped and thoroughly unrealistic.
DMS is brilliantly done, realistic, and leaves the viewer posing many questions - but more like why, how do I feel about that, what if.... the questions left by this film are Eh? Wot?.
Thoroughly dissappointing.

Well everybody's entitled to their opinion.

Actually I wasn't bored. Must say I thought it was great

I rented this expecting it to be good and to be somewhat of a modern day brit film noir judging by the title and seeing the trailer. But instead this was one of the most boring, confusing crime thrillers I've seen in a while.

First, didn't anyone originally feel confused about how the characters are related. I thought will was david's brother or father but wasn't sure, then throw 60 year old charlotte rampling in the mix and I'm thinking she's got to be the mother. But ofcourse I'm wrong, because every bad ass gangster killer dates a senior citizen. Then Mickser is close to all of them but its never explained why.

And throughout the movie were introduced to all sorts of pointless characters: the 3 meathead thug friends, turner and his crew. None of these characters affect the plot in any way and since we, the audience, already know who raped david from the start. This is why I think this movie was boring. To me it was obvious will would find the man and get his revenge, so if he's on a path of revenge the movie really should have been just his path. No sub plots unless they're a part of him getting from a to b. If you're going to use a subplot atleast have it throw the audience for a loop or connect into the main plot near the end; neither of these occured for me.

I was bored by this movie not because of the pacing but because of the wooden characters, bad acting, lame cliches and second rate storytelling.

If you want to see a couple of good revenge flicks that are also paced slowly I'd reccomend Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai and In the Bedroom.

"look at the end; here's a hitman in her house, sitting two feet away from her with a gun in his hand, waiting for clive owen, and she has THE EXACT SAME facial expression as in every other scene. one of the worst actresses ever."


Uhm, Einstein, I think it was pretty clear that she was already shot in that scene and lay there dying. I dunno but assume that that's the case (what else could it be?). What expression do you think you would have if you had been shot and been bleeding for a while? Happy? Afraid? Upset? Or perhaps an expression that shows you very weak, tired and dying, much like the expression she had in that scene...? I would think so.

But sure, Rampling has been type casted for some time now, and always plays that very conserved character in every movie i have seen her. That's her "thing" it seems. But in this scene it's very understandable with her lying there...that's kinda what dying people do...