Let me say from the start, this movie gets a lot of things right but screws up equally as many...
First off, thankfully the movie never tries to explain his abilities in detail or justify it any further than the head wound, thus avoiding senseless pseudoscience talks. The acting is above average, the chemistry works, the cinematography is solid and while the plot of "cleaning up the hood" doesn't win a price for originality, they even pulled that one off pretty nicely with the rape revenge as the main motivation. The movie also does a pretty good job at showing the trauma caused to Maisie Williams character and doesn't just use her as a plot device. Overall much more than I was expecting from such a rather low budget production which was probably just pitched as "you need more content on your page ? let me write something up real quick and see where that goes"
That being said... They must have just given up writing the script after it was 2/3 done, cause the ending is horrible in every way.Its lazy, it doesn't follow the previously established rules, makes no sense what so ever and doesn't even look cool... After the "final boss" is "defeated" it gets even worse with an uninspired resolve and no follow-through what so ever.
If it had ended after about 60 minutes this could have gotten a much higher rating.
First off, thankfully the movie never tries to explain his abilities in detail or justify it any further than the head wound, thus avoiding senseless pseudoscience talks. The acting is above average, the chemistry works, the cinematography is solid and while the plot of "cleaning up the hood" doesn't win a price for originality, they even pulled that one off pretty nicely with the rape revenge as the main motivation. The movie also does a pretty good job at showing the trauma caused to Maisie Williams character and doesn't just use her as a plot device. Overall much more than I was expecting from such a rather low budget production which was probably just pitched as "you need more content on your page ? let me write something up real quick and see where that goes"
That being said... They must have just given up writing the script after it was 2/3 done, cause the ending is horrible in every way.Its lazy, it doesn't follow the previously established rules, makes no sense what so ever and doesn't even look cool... After the "final boss" is "defeated" it gets even worse with an uninspired resolve and no follow-through what so ever.
If it had ended after about 60 minutes this could have gotten a much higher rating.