Hollywood thriller "Reckoning": reviews of spectators and film critics

In 2016, director Gavin O'Connor and Warner Bros. Released in the world hire action movie "Reckoning." The picture was mixed, despite the fact that in the cinemas, the ribbon "Rasplata" earned more than 155 million dollars. What is the plot of the film about? And who played the main roles in it?

Creators and a short plot of the picture

Gavin O'Connor began his career in 1995 with the debut tape "Comfortable number." Recognition to the director came after in 2011 he withdrew the drama "Warrior", which was nominated for several prestigious film awards. After the completion of the Western film "Jane takes a gun" O'Connor began work on the picture "Payback".

Reviews of the film already in the first weekend of rental pleased bosses from Warner Bros. Producers did not expect at all that the thriller with elements of the thriller will earn $ 25 million over the next couple of days and overtake other tapes that were released during the same period.

It's because the plot of O'Connor's picture is a little unusual: the main character suffers from autism, but it does not prevent him from accurately shooting a rifle, possess ingenious mathematical abilities and earning a "black" financier from a mafia.

The film "Payback" is filled with unexpected plot twists, shootings, scenes of persecution, after all the main character Christian Wulff is directly connected with the criminal world. The situation becomes more complicated when Wolfe gets into the field of law enforcement - now the young man is forced to make every possible effort to preserve his habitual way of life and his beloved work.

The main actors

The film "Payback" entered the filmography of Hollywood celebrity Ben Affleck ("Operation Argo") - it was he who was assigned the main role in the film.

According to the plot, the hero of Affleck from childhood suffers from autism. But thanks to the efforts of the willful father, Christian socialized and learned to live in society. But only a guy with genius analytical skills chose an unusual job: he is an auditor who in his spare time earns money by keeping accounts of killers, drug lords and other representatives of the mafia.

Actor Jay Kay Simmons appeared in the frame in the image of the head of the Ministry of Finance Ray King, who opened the hunt for Christian Wulff. Jay Kay is also known for the films "Obsession" by Damien Shazell and "Games of Gentlemen" by the Coen brothers.

Anna Kendrick won the role of Dana Cummings, Wulf's assistant during his work for Living Robotics. Kendrick has mostly built a career on Broadway musicals, but sometimes appears in major Hollywood projects such as Twilight, Scott Pilgrim Against All and My Boyfriend Killer.

Cynthia Addai-Robinson (m / s "Shooter", "Dallas") played in the action movie "Reckoning" special agent Marybet Medina, who personally led a secret investigation into the case of Christian Wulff.

Actors of the second plan

John Berntal in the film "Payback" was invited to play the criminal element of Braxton. Berntal is mostly known for the series "Walking Dead" and "Daredevil".

The shot also featured Geoffrey Tambor ("The Death of Stalin"), John Lithgow ("Crown"), Gregory Alan Williams ("Terminator: Genesis") and Jean Smart ("Hawaii 5-0").

"Payback": feedback from viewers

Large box office shows that the thriller of Gavin O'Connor fell in love with the audience. What caught them in the picture "Payback"?

Reviews of the film, in the first place, are laudatory speeches in honor of the extraordinary script and its competent presentation.

The director under the magnifying glass examines the situation in which Woolf grew up and how the microclimate in the family influenced the development of Christian's character. Wulf's story is interesting because Ben Affleck appears in front of the viewer not in the form of a notorious, inflated hero with extraordinary physical abilities, but on the contrary - a man full of contradictions. Christian is strong in mathematics and analytics, sometimes he has to defend his life on his own, but he also has weaknesses: limited physical possibilities, difficulties associated with an incurable disease.

In addition, the script writer Bill Dubyuk worked so that until the very end of the picture the audience did not fully understand what the outcome would be. And what else do you need to spend an interesting weekend?

"Payback": critical reviews

According to the statistics of the site rottentomatoes, Gavin O'Connor's film received only 52% of positive reviews from film critics from around the world. That is, about the insurgent "Payback" reviews from professional reviewers are not as optimistic as from ordinary viewers.

First of all, critics are confused by the image of Christian Wulff: it's hard to believe in an autistic man who hits small targets from a 3-kilometer distance from a rifle, communicates on an equal footing with the world's leading terrorists and mafiosi, and with such psychological stresses he has not gone mad yet In the hospital.

Also, reviewers complain that the writer and director of the film was too carried away by a heap of plot twists and forgot that at the end of each tape there should be a logical conclusion from all that was shown. And the final of "Reckoning" remains, as it were, "open" and unfinished.