nfl jerseys Screenwriter: Paddy Considine, Shane Meadows, Paul Fraser Starring: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell, Emily Aston, Neil Bell Home Film Reviews Dead Man’s Shoes Paddy Considine Movies News Pictures Video Films by Artist:ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Dead Man’s Shoes Movie Review Dead Man’s Shoes Review Paddy Considine is a good actor. He’s one of those actors that you never really remember by name, but you remember the face without a doubt. He was Russell Crowe’s union-petitioning confidant in Cinderella Man, the intermittent manager of Joy Division in 24 Hour Party People, and the accent-heavy, principled father in In America. Considine tends to be the best part of most of the movies he’s in, and Dead Man’s Shoes is no exception to that rule. In the Midlands, Richard (Considine), a hardened warrior, has returned home. He hasn’t returned to his childhood home, but rather a small shed on a derelict farm. You see, Richard is home to take revenge on a small group of hoods. While he was away, these hoods, led by Shane (Gary Stretch), tormented and verbally abused Richard’s younger, mentally disabled brother (Toby Kebbell). After a prank that involved painting the hoods' faces and heads, Richard gets serious. The first body is found in the bathroom of their hangout, axe wounds galore. Richard deals with them quickly and rescues a reformed hood with a family. Not to be outdone by any ghost movie, the film springs a trick ending which is, to say the least, unexpected. On all theoretical terms, the film is a failure and does nothing new or extraordinarily radical with the standard revenge flick. On an entertainment level, it’s gritty but also has a mundane, often monotonous tone to it. As Richard goes on his path of destruction, no one is spared from his vengeance until he gets to the family man. What the film seems to be saying is that no matter what you do, if you become a normal family man, you will be forgiven any past transgressions. The entertainment value of a film may often supersede its theoretical ideals, but here there is nothing particularly impressive about the entertainment. Richard is set up as an unstoppable force and retains that method until the final 10 minutes of the film. Not even the way he dispatches the criminals is especially interesting or clever; M:I 3 had better deaths. It’s a marvel watching Considine try to bring something exciting to the character, though. The best scene of the film is the first confrontation between Richard and Shane. Richard openly admits where he is living and that they are all welcome to come and kill him or to leave town instantly. When Shane threatens him again, Considine wildly shakes his head and makes a scared noise. It’s a simple, human acknowledgment of indifference for what Richard knows is going on and what will happen. The problem is that we also know what’s going on and how it’s going to end. Not even Considine can stop that. How much more to go? 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