This is the first film made by Jude Law since he enrolled in the Robert de Niro Academy of Brama in which students are taught to equate psychopathic ranting at full throttle, laced liberally with the 'f' and 'c' words equates to Acting. With Vincent Cassell in France and now Jude Law in England the Academy now has footholds in three countries. Details of courses can be found on the website www.king'snewclothes.com. There's no denying it's effective because I've lost count of the number of otherwise sane, rational people who describe de Niro not just as an actor at all but a GOOD actor. Anyway Law turns in a passable carbon of his mentor and roars through an unremarkable 'revenge' movie spewing obscenities left and right on the offbeat of violent encounters. Those who like this sort of thing i.e. thirty-something cases of arrested development, will like it despite its interchangeability with dozens like it. Those who prefer real acting and at least a stab at original plotting will give it plenty of room.
Review of Dom Hemingway
