'COLIN FARRELL TRIES TO RESURRECT HIS ACTING CAREER IN DEAD MAN DOWN'

The plot of the movie revolves around Victor (Colin Farrell), an Hungarian immigrant who is determined to seek revenge against crime boss Alphonse Hoyt (Terrence Howard), with the objective of making Alphonse pay for killing his wife two years earlier to prevent a trial after his men also accidentally killed Victor's daughter.


To be able to achieve this Victor infiltrates the criminal empire run by the ruthless kingpin. Victor's first move was to make his way into Alphonse's crime syndicate. The crime boss receives death threats, one of which were weird pictures and puzzles being and the mysterious murder of Paul, one of Alphonse's henchmen. This then creates confusion in the crime world as Alphonse because of his insecurity blames the Jamaicans for Paul's death thereby resulting into a a shoot-out. Victor saves Alphonse's life and thus gains his trust.

Victor has also kidnapped the brother of Albanian kingpin Ilir (James Biberi), who was involved in helping Alphonse dispose of Victor's family. Victor plans to pool the Albanians and Alphonse's men together so he can eliminate them all at once.

As the threats increases, a man within Alphonse's crew and a friend of Victor's, Darcy (Dominic Cooper), investigates the source of the threats which he believes will win him some favour with the kingpin.

The high point of the movie was the introduction of Beatrice (Noomi Rapace)  a mysterious young woman who lives in the apartment across from Victor. Beatrice begins to contact Victor and show interest for him, and on their first date she reveals her true intentions claiming that she witnessed Victor kill a man in his apartments. She threatens to expose him to the cops unless he helps her carry out her own campaign of retribution. The rest of the story shows both of them develop an unusual relationship.

The movie Dead Man Down...I really cant place a finger on it. Can't say that I am impressed, but also won't say that it was bad. But it was a good attempt at displaying a man's thirst for revenge, which sadly feel like it started to wither as the movie progresses.

One of the problems I had with the movie was the way Alphonse dies. I must say I wasn't impressed, as a bad man (as we fondly call the antagonist in our clime) who is being hunted for killing the Actor's (also what we call the protagonist, or the good guy) family was killed rather too easy. The way the movie progressed, with Victor launching a full scale killing campaign against the kingpin's camp, I actually started to feel bad for Alphonse and imagined the pain that would befall him when Victor lay hands on him. But I will say no more. Readers, please watch this movie and tell me what you think.


Dead Man Down is a 2013 American neo-noir crime thriller film written by J.H. Wyman and directed by Danish director Niels Arden Oplev. The film stars Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Cooper, and Terrence Howard. This is Oplev's first film since The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It was released on March 8, 2013.