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This moving has good acting, direction and purpose. I think Orlando Bloom showed he can really act, maybe for the first time in his career. I wish there was more closure in a few areas but overall it was very well done. It's a disturbing subject but really powerful and a good execution.

It has more depth to it than expected. Fair warning: it is not an Equalizer-type film. It's a different category altogether.

A different sort of role for Orlando Bloom, as an ex-con fighting through his reality many years after being molested by a Priest of the church. It doesn't come off as yet another hit piece on the church at least. It is however, a dark and moody movie. It's not bad and also not great. The best part of it is that it had some language and skin. 6/10.

I watched this film while in Poland and was unexpectedly blown away. Orlando Bloom gives the performance of his career with another sterling supporting performance from Alex Ferns. At times this film is challenging to watch as the lead character is dealing with the repercussions of sexual abuse, however it is a subject matter that begs to be addressed and is dealt with exceptionally well.

This one wasn't easy for me to sit through, but in the end, it was well worth the watch.

Very good performance by Orlando Bloom, as well as by Charlie Creed-Miles.

They should have stuck with the title "ROMANS" because a certain passage in that part of the New Testament is really the central theme of the story, at least it was for me.

Most movies are easily forgettable, but not this one. I'm thinking about it long after watching.

Although dealing with a sensitive issue, this movie AKA Retaliation, was dreadfully long and boring. I watched this solely on the trailer. I should've just watched the trailer 50 times. The only good part was the last 10 minutes of the movie. Don't waste your time.

Underrated gem.

Yes, it's dark subject matter but the message is bright.

PhenomEnal work by the cast! Orlando Bloom delivers a performance that should have been anything but swept under the rug. This one deserves your attention.

Terrible movie. Depressing from start to finish. I wish I could have that hour and a half back, local news during the pandemic would be more uplifting. Watch it at your own risk, but I felt so much worse after watching it. Man I hate movies like this.

This movie is an emotional one that's for sure. It's unfortunate how many people truly feel like this in the world. It touches on a subject that is disturbingly common and yet needs to be told. And it tells it well. the acting is magnificent and the cinematography is vividly presented. Just make sure you have some tissues on stand by is my advice.

I waited for something to happen. I waited for me to actually care for any character. I waited for the story to do SOMETHING....it didn't. Very disappointing considering it's such a sad issue and the truth needs to be told.

An excellent movie about a very sad and disturbing subject. Orlando Bloom's performance was so well done I believed every look and sound of his character. There are so many people who are in need of help in this world. My hope is that this movie will help make a change, somewhere.

A complicated topic to grapple with - but Orlando shows all the facets of pain, confusion and longing after being a victim of abuse at the hand of a priest. The ending is firey.

"Be not carried away to revenge and retaliation (Romans, 12,V 19) by evil which is committed against you, but overcome the evil by the good which you show to your enemy (V20), put to shame by your noble spirit, ceases to act malignantly against you . . . ." Paul

Retaliation, starring a surprisingly competent Orlando Bloom as Malky, is about a demolition worker trying to demolish the memory of abuse by a priest when Malky was 12. The plot is simple, a thriller at the least, encouraging the audience to guess whether he will exorcise his demon or take Christ's advice (see above).

The film focuses almost exclusively on Malky, whose growing torture about the abuse bleeds out into everything he encounters, be it his Mum (Anne Reed), his best friend, Jo (Alex Ferns), or, most lamentably, girlfriend Emma (Janet Montgomery). His rage is palpable, and because he shares its reason with no one, it is quietly volcanic.

At times the metaphors (cross, stigmata, and glasses, just for starters) are heavy; yet Bloom so effectively carries their weight, they serve as effectively as could be expected without distracting. The text from Paul helps audiences to understand the victim's dilemma as well as answer how Malky can appease the vengeance.

Bloom is a revelation-abandoning for the moment his pretty boy roles-by turning in a memorable performance recently as an army captain in The Outpost, and in this role underplaying and overplaying grief and anger without relying on the charms that made him a global star.

For those who were brought up Catholic, stories of priestly abuse haunt even more when they are true. My attempted abuse by a priest when I was an undergraduate stays with me as I reconcile the disparity between piety and pederasty, its prevalence and its persistence. Retaliation will prevail as one of the best takes on religious perfidy.

It was well done film. Orlando Bloom is an amazing actor. Note : I do not give out compliments to just any actors. My standards are very high. However, when an actor performs exceptionally I feel compelled to share my opinion in the areas such as the IMDb sites.

The subject portrayed in the film made me cringe that the man who is a representative of god and his works can do these horrible deeds to the innocent children is just too horrible!

I like that Malcom was "big enough" man to forgive the monster/evil/devil for what he has done so many years ago. This monster ruined his life and set the heavy weight on the boy for over twenty-five years, even though the burden was not his fault!

Malcom's mother I didn't like at all, blindly following the establishment! She is the person that Malcom trusted most, his mom who should have protected him rather than the church she espoused to believe more than her injured son!

She chose to continue in her belief no matter what. What kind of a mother does that!

Of course we can make many excuses for her, but none are justifiable!

I do not forgive his mother!

And I could Never Ever forgive that priest or all of those catholic priests who'd been accused for those heinous acts! Never ever!

Those excuses that god will do the punishing is a B. S.!

Well dealt with a sickening issue!

Sadly, the other monsters in the real life would not follow what the film's character priest have done. But I hope there really is the special hell for them!! I really do!

I LOVE Orlando Bloom but this movie was so boring. I almost turned it off but pushed through hoping it would get better. It didn't. It had nothing to do with the acting...just a boring story line. I was so excited to watch a movie of his where he survived and wasn't killed off... lots of potential yet such a let down 😕

A very slow but decent movie. A great ending that you were not expecting, but it takes forever to get there. If you're looking for an action packed thriller like the trailer suggests, forget it. If you're looking for a serious movie the touches on a very serious subject, OK.

Way too slow and uneventful. The girlfriend and best friend do a much better job of acting than Bloom. All he does is look intense and act angry. Despite the good acting, there is little emotional attachment to the characters. For such a powerful subject, the film should have been oozing with emotions. I would advise you to skip it

It was as if he had 'grown up' and become some whole other being. There is not one misstep in this film. Every aspect of victimhood, ptsd, self-harm, sexuality, denial, help, healing, recovery, friendship, love, hate, anger, debt, discovery is revealed in a natural, realistic manner. Orlando's work is incredible. The writing is incredible. And ultimately the true horror turns out not to have been where you thought it was at all, but somewhere even worse, even more cruel and complex.

Malky (Orlando Bloom) is out drinking when he sees someone responsible for a horrific incident he suffered as a child. He decides to seek vengeance.

Well I don't have much to say about this one, a very dark film helped by a powerful performance..

First of all, Orlando Bloom is amazing. He plays a troubled, closed-off adult, unable to recover from what he went through - which was being sexually abused by a priest.

I have never seen anything move so slowly. Also, best I can tell, it has been marketed as some kind of revenge movie, renamed Retaliation. Don't look for a Bruce Willis-tough guy type film.

I was raised Catholic. There is NO WAY a priest would do as this priest did in the last scene. Sorry, couldn't buy it.

Ellen is dumb so I'm sorry Orlando I have to prove her wrong. Surely you understand