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Revenge is a Dish Best Punched Repeatedly
Chris Kavan - wrote on 05/24/2013
This is a straight-up action/revenge flick that really makes you feel the anger, and determination, from the main character - it doesn't so much leap off the screen as sucker-punch you upside the head. We open on a the scene of the London riots - a group of young men go on their own personal looting/stealing spree. Later, when visiting a case worker, she watches the televised riots and realizes they are responsible for the crimes. Before she can say anything, she is badly beaten, which leads to miscarriage, which leads to her leaving her boyfriend. Said boyfriend has lost pretty much everything he cared about in life, and so gets himself locked up in the same institution as these punks and goes on a personal vendetta.
For the most part the film takes place within the confines to the …