Okay, hmm. Action, violence and all but the message is lost. Willem Dafoe is good but a few scenes make you a bit uncomfortable but whatever. Two Irish brothers from Southie are super firepower bringers of vigilante justice. What I did not see was their fall into vigilantiism other than a bar fight in which members of a Russian mob threaten the Tourette's afflicted, profanity bursting, proprietor of their favorite bar. The brothers Conner (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murphy (Norman Reedus) are too intelligent for the role. Had they had more of the reasoning of their Italian friend Rocco, yeah, the roles would have been a bit more effective.
This would not be a top rated film for me but it kept me in and it was far from being ushered back into the red envelope prematurely. The directing is okay, the acting, okay, the script, okay and the cinematography, okay. If you are low on good items in the queue, do it.
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