Vindicte

This movie is laughably bad.

It seems like it was written by the school age child of a big Hollywood producer or something.

Because I'm not sure how anyone could read a script like this and think it was a good idea to make.

It's literally that awful.

Whoever it was has been watching way too many marvel movies "for inspiration".

Neither the writer, director, or any of the actors in this film should ever work again.

Everyone involved in this travesty should be immediately blacklisted, going forth.

The actors are all very recognizable faces...but they put on some of the most half-assed performances I've ever seen.

I genuinely can't tell if they suck that bad, or weren't even trying.

But it's real bad.

Either way, I can never look at them with any modicum of respect ever again.

The whole thing is so poorly constructed...it's not inherently clear what the hell is actually going on.

There's definitely a serial killer on the loose...amidst widescale riots aimed at a corrupt police force...and a polyglot paramedic, that still lives with her father, and has a fluent understanding of latin.

But what the point of it all is?

Who the hell cares.

If I wasn't trying to watch every horror film made in 2023, I honestly would have shut this off after the first 3 minutes.

It, quite literally, has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

Actually...that's not entirely fair.

Because I genuinely couldn't stop laughing at how bad it is.

It's confounding to think that there's an employed idiot out there that actually greenlit this.

I'm not sure who that was...but whoever it is should be publicly flogged for their transgressions.

While the writer should be jailed indefinitely.

Because, you'd think it would take skill to suck this hard.

But they brought the suck here effortlessly.

1 out of 10.

Somehow, I had some hopes for this one. The cast is good, the premise was interesting, it just needed a good direction and execution.

Which completely lacked sadly. A movie that is very fast forward, few stops, always on the run, until the flashes start..and end with the movie.

The origin story here takes forever and becomes annoying and infuriating, the development stops, the killings take a back seat and we are in a third act that does nothing but hit us in the head with why is this all happening.

It started quite good I must say, very raw movie that showed exactly what it wanted to show with no holdbacks, but it became sort of a joke while moving on. Scenes that looked ridiculous, dialogue written by kids, out of the blue nothing seemed to make sense anymore. I really think it had some nice vibes from Sin City and V for Vendetta, but wow did this turn bad.

You should give Major Grom: Plague Doctor a chance, that one actually is a good movie and has the same style.

Vindicta is not recommended at all, movies like Daredevil, the short version or Elektra are its equals.

Cheers!

The potential was there for this to be an OK flic. Good actors, not a terrible story. Exceptionally poor script. As a horror fanatic I've seen everything. I can appreciate campy, cheesy, poorly written horror done for the sake of being that way on purpose. I even enjoy horror that's "so absolutely bad that it's actually good." Type of flics.... But THIS? The actually tried to be good and they failed epically. It's just so bad that i had to come here and write a review for the abomination that I just wasted my time on. I won't give any spoilers, but for the love of God, just don't waste your time. It's truly a showpiece of how to make a terrible movie. That being said, go ahead and watch it so you can see what I'm talking about.

Wow. Full disclosure, I couldn't make it through this. It honestly felt like a bad attempt at a parody of "Seven" but directed by someone whose background is in Nickelodeon sitcoms and has never seen the film. If you want to piss off Jeremy Piven in a bar, ask him about this project. Fairly early on (but not too long before I shut it off) there is a scene where they show a defunct theater marquee advertising Jerry Lewis' "A Slapstick of Another Kind," one of the worst wide theatrical release films ever produced. I assume it was a tip of the cap or a thumb of the nose to someone on the production related to that steaming present. In retrospect, it may be the best thing in the film because it makes me laugh that such a horrible picture would intentionally reference one of the few films it keeps company on the very lowest of celluloid rungs with. The best I can say about this picture is the camera is always in focus though the lighting is all wrong, along with its direction, script and existence.

Vindicta is a revenge serial killer film. It follows the tropes of this genre almost to the T. It is heavily cliched and trite, both in plotting and dialogue. Lead character is a spunky, tough woman who is a paramedic following in her fire fighter father. Oh, and she studied languages in college, specifically Latin and Chinese. This is important because the killer writes Latin phrases at each murder site. (Oh she also speaks Mandarin because she was raised in China town. No reason for this other than one other minor character speaks Mandarin for her to speak in an emergency situation.)

Stereotypical characters abound simply to fit plotting and structuring of the film. So many elements of this film are contrived that they blatantly shout their message out of the screen.

Not hugely mysterious, so the ending isn't much of a shock. It could almost be a good drinking game given how predictable this film is. Though I wouldn't want to watch it a second time.