A Hungarian engineer that emigrated to USA sees his wife and little daughter murdered by a gang that believes he was also killed at the same occasion. He has however survived the attack (we don't know exactly how) and decides to plan and execute a cold vengeance by killing the murderers one by one using for that several stratagems and also his technical skill after having infiltrated himself in the gang and acting as one of its accepted members. The story which is a bit weak in terms of logic and credibility is very well told in images and scenes till its brutal ending. in the thick of this there is a subplot that turns slowly out to be sentimental in which a young woman whose face was disfigured by a car accident caused by a drunk driver wants also to revenge herself by making our man to kill that driver under the threat of denouncing him for one of his murders that she had furtively and by chance watched. Their relationship begins under this threat but is softening itself while time passes and several episodes involving them both occur. Notwithstanding the story which is a bit complicated and has a few loose ends the movie is well made, directed and acted and has lots of well performed action, riveting the spectator's attention during the whole projection. One last note for the sound track music which is lugubriously superb and contributes adequately to the movie atmosphere.
Review of Dead Man Down
