2022 · action · crime · revenge
Vendetta
Directed by Jared Cohn1h 36m2022
When his daughter is murdered, William Duncan takes the law into his own hands, setting out on a quest for retribution. After killing the street thug responsible for her death, he finds himself in the middle of a war with the thug's brother, father, and their gang, who are equally hell-bent on getting even. What ensues is a tense back-and-forth game of vengeance. By the end, William comes to find that the quest for revenge never has a winner.
Our read: Vendetta (2022) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · crime · revenge entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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