In fact, it is some of RitchieвЂ™s best work as a filmmaker. The first two acts of Wrath of Man are terrific, and they are a showcase for RitchieвЂ™s abilities.

How Wrath of Man reveals HвЂ™s past is one of the filmвЂ™s strongest sections, and we the audience look forward to seeing how all of this pays off. StathamвЂ™s H is clearly a man on a mission, cold, and ruthless in his methodology, but there is reason for it. There is a realism to Wrath of Man, and at times that realism overwhelms the film. Like his 2000 film Snatch (also starring Statham), Ritchie plays with the flow of time and how everyoneвЂ™s backstory intersects with everyone else, but unlike Snatch, these intersects arenвЂ™t played for laughs, but instead used for an emotional impact and slow reveals of plot and character. This is familiar subject matter for Guy Ritchie, but it is in the tone that Wrath of Man differs from his other crime films. However, there is a shared past between them, and a fierce vengeance to be paid in blood. It seems inevitable that JacksonвЂ™s crew and H will collide in an explosion of violence. They work with tactical precision, except at times Jackson must rein in Jan (Scott Eastwood), one of the younger soldiers in his crew, a hothead, and eager to prove himself. Meanwhile, a group of former soldiers led by Jackson (Jeffrey Donovan) becomes restless in civilian life, and decides that the skills they acquired in war could be used to take down scores. It quickly becomes obvious to everyone at the armored truck company that H has a past, and a goal, skills that exceed his pay grade, and a score to settle. He is unfriendly and coarse, but one day when robbers hold up the armored truck that he and Bullet are working, H dispatches the robbers with cold brutality and efficiency. H does not talk much, and when he does, it is mostly to tell people to stay away from him. JД«ased on the 2004 French film Le convoyeur (вЂњCash TruckвЂќ), Wrath of Man introduces us to H ( Jason Statham), who is given that moniker by his supervisor Bullet (Holt McCallany) at the armored truck job that H was recently hired on to work. Even the cinematography is less playful than RitchieвЂ™s previous works, and more intense.

There is a coldness to the violence, and a fury that fuels its characters. However, this is a film more reminiscent of The Long Good Friday than The Lavender Hill Mob. It could be the American setting that dictates the tone, or Ritchie experimenting with different storytelling techniques. It is brutal, direct, mostly absent of humor, and based in a realism that RitchieвЂ™s other films of this nature are not. Guy RitchieвЂ™s Wrath of Man is decidedly not a caper. For the most part, they are sheer entertainment, and sometimes we see actors like Brad Pitt or Matthew McConaughey pal around with Ritchie and his crew. If you wanted to describe those Ritchie crime films in a word, you could call them capers. Most of them are about a group of British lads, who manage to stumble into a situation that could either make them a lot of money or get a lot of them killed, but through tenacity, bravado, and the occasional odd circumstance manage to see their way through. When it comes to crime films, Guy Ritchie has a distinctive style.

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