Avengement

Director Jesse V. Johnson sprinkles in enough cruel twists of fate and melancholy-laced flashbacks to prevent Avengement from becoming just another disposable exercise in action sadism on a budget. The real credit, though, goes to Adkins, who one of these days will hopefully get called up to the Hollywood big leagues and wind up surprising a lot of people — and grin while he’s doing it.

Portraying his most complex character to date, Adkins delivers a ferocious turn that proves visceral in its emotional as well as physical intensity.

Avengement features a good balance of colorfully profane British gangster-speak and intense, explicitly gory punch-outs.

If what you’re looking for it fists of fury, he can provide them. And if you’re looking for signs that a guy who is playing heavies in small roles in big budget pictures is growing as a performer, that he and Johnson have gotten better since “Debt Collector,” just not all that much, Avengement is going to be your kind of movie.

The whole film plays like a hunk looking at himself in the mirror.

(Mauro Lanari) Another revenge film, bastard son of the most disgusting of all, that "Reservoir Dogs" with which in 1992 Tarantino has massified this crap of subgenre.

Endless boring and repetitive prison fight scenes cut with scenes of the protagonist in a bar talking about said prison fights. The story is extremely forgettable.