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A violent, driven revenge movie loosely derived from all the other revenge movies. Tired trope after copycat cliché, this is a stereotypical story with few redeeming features. Formulaic recipe, sprinkle a few known names, albeit past their sell-by-date, cook up a random murder and garnish with carnage.

This is so poor, with diabolical dialogue, a ponderous, predictable plot and epilepsy-inducing camera work. This is all overlaid with an annoyingly intrusive soundtrack.

Terrible movie, not worth the required time investment.

But for Jared Cohn, an experienced writer and director to give us this nonsense, is inexcusable. The writing was worse than a 5th grade drama class would present. This was such a plot-hole riddled lazily written bag full of cliches, it was cringe. Then he had his actors pretty much acting like clowns, I couldn't take Mr. Smiley and Pipe Smoker seriously. It's a shame, because this had potential and could've easily worked in the hands of any other capable filmmaker, especially considering the decent casting. It's a generous 4/10 from me.

I believe this is Bruce Willis final film, like many others I've watched his recent glut of films over the last eighteen months literally stunned at how bad most of them are with only a couple barely ok. For what it's worth this is probably one of the better ones but it still has a lot of problems. Here we see Willis, along with Thomas Jane relegated to the role of interesting background character, both do a relatively ok job considering what they have to work with. The plot itself is a rehash of other revenge type films where a lead has a loved one killed them sets out to take revenge on a criminal organisation. Oh and said lead just happens to be a well trained military person.

The problem here is there are huge plot holes everywhere, it literally takes place in small town America in place which is very clean and clearly affluent yet we are led to believe there are armed gangs of drug dealers running around. This same gang require new members to kill innocents as part of their initiation too, yet whilst doing this there are zero people around in the middle of the day on the main high street? Seriously thought this up? Then we learn the local cops (all four of them) know they are selling drugs but turn a blind eye, yet they leave a protection duty because a kid throws something at their patrol car. This is where what could be a relatively fun revenge movie packed with a number of recognisable faces falls very flat. It's probably just about watchable if you want to see every Willis movie but the plot holes need some excusing.

Bad story, bad acting, bad action.

William Duncan is out for revenge when a hoodlum's son killed his high school daughter as part of an initiation killing. With the law unable to give him justice, Duncan brings war to the hoodlum's family.

You know the movie is in trouble when then the best performance comes from Mike Tyson.

This is a rock bottom rehash of both Death Wish and The Punisher. Both Bruce Willis and Thomas Jane appeared in remakes of those two films.

Shame on those who deal with Willis's affairs that they send out an ill old man to make such rubbish.

If you dont laugh at least 3 times I'd be shocked. This has to be a joke.

The dialog had to be written by a child.

Who would make this movie?

Perhaps some favors were cashed in.

At this point I believe Bruce Willis is taking roles that Nic Cage knew were really bad.

I actually like the main actor. Not sure if I remember him from other movies.

Tysons cameo was good but it was what it was.

Maybe an AI Computer spit this out because there is NOTHING WHATSOEVER original in this film other than the bad dialog. Maybe it's a throwback to cheesy 90s movies? You knew what was going to happen from start to middle to end.

I actually recommend you watch this because you will NOT believe how bad the dialog is. Seriously.

Literally - the script is unbelievably stupid, filled with illogical actions and idiotic characters. I couldn't even comprehend how a screenplay this bad could get past the usual phalanx of development execs, producers, agents, actors and at least one director a script usually needs to please to get made. Then I checked the credits and discovered that the writer was also the director and he cranks out half-a-dozen of these crapfests every year - a bad case of cinematic diarrhea.

So I guess he doesn't have time to watch Cops or otherwise figure out how police operate in the real world or how real gangsters handle their business.

Nothing in this movie rings true. It's just a series of dumb and dumber scenes designed to accommodate a bunch of gunfire and martial arts shenanigans.

To be fair, the film looks pretty good. The cinematography is very nice and the actors give it their all. Unfortunately, for many - including the bigger name actors in this mess - that amounts to the level of thespianism usually reached by stunt men cast to pad the ranks of the bad guys in B movies. Stiff, shallow, overwrought characterizations.

Bad acting, a ridiculous script with not a drop of suspense or a single character you care about. Braindead fun for the feeble-minded.

In this movie, former U. S. Marine William Duncan (Clive Standen) strikes back at the thugs who murdered his daughter and therefore provoking a cycle of violence. A revenge movie in which Bruce Willis (Donnie Fetter) plays (again) a crime boss who orders his loose-cannon son Theo Rossi (Rory) to clean up the mess. Another boring Bruce Willis movie, whose unfocussed and empty performance is really hard to watch after the news of his Aphasia diagnosis. Bruce spends most of his scenes sitting behind a desk and you can see he is struggling with his dialogue. Heart-breaking! The good news is we have Thomas Jane playing an arms dealer and Mike Tyson playing the leader of a gang and dealing stolen cars. If you like to see Thomas Jane (and he is really outperforming here) smoking a pipe and always drinking a bottle of beer, this movie is for you. Mike´s role was very small but he passed with flying colours!

Who watches this stuff and thinks it's worth releasing. The acting is horrific. Bruce Willis being in this means his career is over. This is just awful, pass it by.

Don't bother with many reviews these days as not sure what people expect. Perfectly good film. Not the best, not the worse. Kept me entertained right through. Normally give a film 20 minutes to keep me or lose me. Watched this till the dnd.

...to pass the time with. Bruce Willis is more coherent and with it in this film than in his previous recent offerings (I say that with love and respect to Mr. Willis. He'll always be the GOAT), but the real treat is being able to watch Thomas Jane spin his magic with a weak script. I would pay ticket price to see a movie featuring his Dante character smoking a pipe and wasting fools.

This movie is worth a watch.

Well with the Bruce Willis films winding down Im still seeing what work he has just done. This one is called Vendetta and it also stars Mike Tyson and Thomas Jane.

And the thing is...its not that bad really. I mean its far from great but its the best film Bruce Willis has been in in years. I give it a 5/10. Most of his newest films I gave a 1 to 3 rating. Its a basic vigilante film much in the spirt of Death Wish. A young girl is murdered by a gang member and her father decides to kill him instead of testifying against him. That gets the whole gang angry and they go after him.

This is basically just a rip off of James Wan's death sentence. Death sentence is wayyyy better, if you haven't seen it skip this and just watch death sentence.

A majority here are saying the movie stinks and while yes, it is your run of the mill revenge vigalante flick, there are some good moments. As with most of these low end productions, most of the budget goes to Willis for his salary, regardless if he only has 5 minutes of screen time. His name is starred so you are going to watch it. Sadly, you can tell Bruce is struggeling to deliver and remember his lines by the pauses and his blank expressions. But even then, we love you Bruce and this movie will probably be gem just for knowing this was Willis at the end if his career.

Don't waste your time. It was the exact plot of Death Sentence with Kevin Bacon, but at least Death Sentence was watchable. I really found myself rooting for the bad guys just so the movie would be over. The dialogue was horrible and I have seen better acting in 70s porn. You know the movie is in trouble when Mike Tyson gives one of the better performances.

If the plot sounds interesting, watch Death Sentence or even better, Law Abiding Citizen.

Where to start with this film? The absolutely awful lead actor? The ludicrous ultra violence against women? The utter destruction of Willis' career? Thomas Jane, once a first class b movie lead, putting in the worst performance I've ever seen by a decent actor. And a completely inconsequential one at that. The plot itself would disgrace an episode of Hart to Hart. As if a criminal organisation of Willis' inept gang here could run a bath. This really is the worst film I've seen that contains at least four actors I've heard of.

The fact that they call this a remake or second version of Vendetta is untrue. The Vendetta movie came out 2009, the Death Sentence movie came out 2007. Vendetta 2022, every scene and script is literally of that Deatvh Sentence movie minus the kid being a girl and the father that seeked revenge for his child had two kids. Everything else is a clone to the T. This should've been Death Sentence remake. Cheaper version because the crappy detective and the amount of gun shots not being hit to any person throughout the movie. This movie is not terrible but they really could have easily done better.

This is getting a lot of bad slaps because of Bruce Willis and it really doesn't deserve them. Neither does Bruce Willis for trying to put some $$$ in the coffer before he was forced to call it quits.

It's not a bad little crime/action/thriller at all. Clive Standen is passable and does the best with a passable script. Thomas Jane was good but shoujld aim higher in the future. Mike Tyson was a kick to watch in a small role--he's got some phenomenal screen presence and might have found a new niche making cameos like this.

The story line was very good--nothing like a revenge tale to make you want to see the bad guys pay.

Overall, only a 6 out of 10, but still very watchable.

5 minutes in and I realized that someone ate the Death Sentence cd along with some terrible writing and directing skills and crapped out this garbage.

Only watched it because of Bruce Willis but also knowing his last few movies were for click bait only but he deserves that privilege for giving us so many great performances in his prime. My disgust goes out to the Writer/Director. If there is any justice in this world he will be held accountable by having his eyelids removed and forced to watch this great film of his. Maybe not the whole film..after all I'm not a monster. Hell I only watched 5 minutes and I will never be the same again.

Couldn't even get through the whole movie. It is just an awful clone of the movie Death Sentence from like 15 years ago, without even paying homage. Death Sentence was actually good, though.

I have never seen a worse movie.. Ever.. This is the only comment that can be made.. And, I've seen really bad movies. This one has no acting skills (even Bruce Willis acts 4th degree), no script, no creativity, no plot, no nothing..