Silly title aside, Niels Arden Oplev’s Dead Man Down is a surprisingly satisfying slow-burn revenge thriller, one that manages – albeit not without occasionally difficulties – to weave intelligence, emotion, and genuine moral awareness among its complex narrative web. Vengeance has, of course, been explored on film from just about every possible angle, and while Dead Man Down in no way reinvents the wheel, it is a thoughtfully and meticulously written piece about what happens when revenge is taken to the Nth degree. The film is interested in illustrating the natural, disturbing outcome of ‘eye-for-an-eye’ philosophy, examining the ways in which vengeance consumes as an all-encompassing, inescapable force, and for the most part, it does this very well.
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