A Vigilante, written and directed by Sarah Daggar – Nickson - Seven out of 10

A Vigilante, written and directed by Sarah Daggar – Nickson

Seven out of 10

Even if Variety has published a very positive review – ‘she (Olivia Wilde) grabs hold of the spectacle of agonized female anger, and does it with a grace and power that easily matches that of Frances McDormand in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”’

Maybe…

Indeed, other magazines and newspapers have been generous in their praise, to mention only one more, The New York Times – the flailing outlet, as the orange clown visiting the Queen of Great Britain at the moment would have it – mentions ‘the movie’s admirably hard-core final face-off’.

Nevertheless, the public has been much less enthusiastic, perhaps because we have seen it all before.

Granted, this used to be the domain of the macho, violent, high testosterone action movies with men at the center.

Most recently, it had become the realm of Liam Neeson – take cold Pursuit for instance - http://realini.blogspot.com/2019/05/cold-pursuit-by-frank-baldwin-65-out-of.html

As for Olivia Wilde, her debut as a director for the outstanding Booksmart is much more notable than this motion picture about revenge, taking justice out of its proper course and delivering it with fury.

Yes, there is no doubt that the ‘victims ‘of A Vigilante deserve all that they get and perhaps a little more, and the moments when they get the full down payment can be exhilarating emotionally, at a primeval level.

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having expressed more than reservations about the ultimate educational value of this film, we could argue that in a day and age when women are getting ever more strength and try to get Payback for all the humiliation, abuse, discrimination, sexism, unfairness, rapes, beatings they had to suffer from over the ages, a feature like A vigilante may help get some of the frustration ‘out of the system’, at least to some small extent.

So in that, maybe the critical view should be withdrawn, and in its place forgiveness should appear and the final perspective that yes, Variety and the others are right and Sadie must be treasured, regarded as a role model – well, of sorts – and see this with an eye at the centuries of abominable treatment of women, which has not even stopped, for we have places – Saudi Arabia comes to mind – where they are still forced to wear the chador, niqab and so many other repressive attires, made to stay at home, not allowed to get out without a male escort, forget about leaving the country – cases like the ones in Thailand have made the headlines, when young female Saudis have tried to escape the terror of males from home.