I love Danny Dyer, I really do. I watched this today and knew from the outset that the script was pretty low grade. In fact, I'm not even sure why Danny Dyer would read a script like this and say 'yeah boy, I'll do it'. It's awful, some of the dialogue states the obvious. The part when the young couple go to buy drugs and realise they don't have enough money.. Bloke: 'your guy told us for, look look we only got four on us' Edit: you sure you just have four geezer? Girl 'we'll just get four then yeah' Edit: four, you sure you want four? Lots of character bleats in between as they discuss boob showing, more fours, no deal made.. Girl: Babe lets just go Bloke: Babe, we need this gear More discussion on boob showing to the crims to get the amount wanted so she flashes boobs and then... More grunts Bloke' Look we're getting out of here Now hold on, do you see? Can you feel the boredom rise in you? The point of this seen was what? To show how vicious the drug dealers were to this couple? To show they took no nonsense? It was lame, repetitive, pointless. Really really pointless.From this moment on, I knew the film was going to fall flat. I probably knew from watching the trailer, but because of Danny I sucked it up and ate ice cream to soothe my wounds. I don't know where they got the cash from, I don't know how they got Danny Dyer to do this film, but wow is all I can say. If you have a couple of hours, go take a shower, go down the shops, go watch eastenders, he's better in that. All I can say is don't waste your day on this. Danny must have got some cash for doing this film. I am just shocked that script writers like this are actually having films made.

Any great movie begins with a good story. Vendetta has that. Next, it has to be believable. V gets a high score for that as well and I'm difficult to please. This movie embarrasses the anything goes culture of present day Britain and the gross ineffectiveness of modern-day policing to deal with violent crime. This story shows the vulnerability of ordinary people who are neither warned, trained or equipped to deal with violent confrontation. For those, like our anti-hero in this film, who are willing to deal with the bad guys on their level, the law labels him as a vigilante and puts more resources into apprehending him than are dedicated to dealing with the real criminals. The critics who pan a movie like this cannot see past the chocolate box image of their own comfortable lives and can't stomach any story that gets so uncomfortably close to what real life is like for the other 80%. There's some great dialogue in this movie that reflects much of the frustration with modern politics and laws that anger most decent law-abiding citizens. This is a hidden gem. If you haven't seen it yet, you're in for a treat.

Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers (Danny Dyer) is out for serious revenge on the gang who violated and killed his parents. As he goes about his business, he has to stay two steps ahead of the police and his military employers who want their lethal weapon back.Slow justice is better than no justice.OK! Lets cut to the chase here, this is ultimately a gruesome revenge picture, the only thing new on offer here is the methods of the executions administered by the seriously brooding Jimmy Vickers. This adherence to formula, a basic modern update of the Death Wish filmic telling of a tale, is enough to send many critics scurrying around for their most poisonous pens with which to articulate their venom. Add in the Danny Dyer factor, a fella who strangely seems to rile so many in entertainment circles purely because of the genre branches of entertainment he works in, then Vendetta was never going to garner favourable reviews in many quarters.This isn't revenge. This is a necessity.Yet there's a question that springs to mind here, namely, what were they expecting? Tag lines and media headings said Danny Dyer enacts bloody revenge on the murderers of his parents because the law is an ass! Do critics and film fans really go into a film like this, one that isn't hiding under false pretences, expecting a scathing and intelligent observation on the lawlessness of Britain? Or a snarky aside to the failings of the law system? Seriously? Stephen Reynolds (writer and director) has put some thought into his picture, there are some potent passages of dialogue, even if they fall by the wayside as the kills come thick and fast, but it was never marketed to the highbrow seekers.You'll be demoted before you can say Katie Price is a virgin.Vendetta delivers the goods for those looking for a good night in with a beer and some blood and brooding on the screen. Dyer (a real nice bloke in real life) gives good value as a son hell bent on revenge, whilst he also doesn't look out of place in his fight scenes. Haider Zafar's cinematography is superb, the blues and golds magnetic in their visual appeal, and there's good and solid work done by the supporting cast. Vendetta has fans, it really does, so much so that a sequel is currently in production. That news is sure to send those critics sitting up there in their ivory towers at The Guardian and The Telegraph crying over their shrimp salads. But you can bet your last British pound that they will be going to view the sequel expecting a far different movie to the one the man and woman of the street knows they are going to get. Death by cement! Hooray! 7/10

Why would I recommend this film? Well, as much as I enjoy watching American movies, it is sometimes nice to have a rest and see something different. It is nice to see some different scenery, different style and listen to a different accent. Sometimes, it is priceless. It is nice to see a film which is not so much exaggerated, more realistic, without dozens of car explosions, helicopters, driving a car in the opposite direction. It is nice to watch a British, French, German, Scandinavian or any other film every now and then when they make one. The plot of Vendetta is not something original you have not seen before but it is a nice decent and mainly different action film which I have enjoyed watching.