Wrath of Man (2021) [+]
Apr 16 2025
Wrath of Man is a Jason Statham heist-thriller-action movie directed by Guy Ritchie. Set at a Los Angeles armored car company, "H" (Statham) is the new hire, a bit of a loner/silent type, who foils a robbery by shooting and killing all half-dozen-plus armed robbers much to the surprise of his partner and the rest of the company.
Turns out that H is a criminal mastermind out for revenge because a similar armored car robbery turned violent and one of H's loved ones was killed. As seen in a long flashback H and his crew go after other crime outfits looking for the crew but after turning Los Angeles criminal underworld upside down they come up empty and so H decides to go undercover to find the inside man that must have helped that opposing crew.
That other crew is hard to find because they are new to the scene. Led by Jackson (Jeffrey Donovan), the crew is made up of US Army veterans that served in Afghanistan under Jackson. They are meticulous planners and militarily precise during ops but one of them, Jan (Scott Eastwood), went a bit out of control in their last heist and murdered both armored car guards and an innocent bystander (which brings H into the picture).
This leads to the final act when Jackson and crew decide to go for The Big Heist — the armored car depot which will have almost $200M after Black Friday pickups. It's going to be a long and bloody gunfight inside a warehouse-like space between Jackson's heavily armed and armored squad and the more numerous company guards…
I really like this film. It has a sort of 1970's movie feel. Not as much of an action film even though there are gunfights but more about raising tensions for that final act. I like that the final battle isn't so much about H killing everybody since a lot of damage is done by the armored car guards. Statham is really good playing his usual type of character. Contrast to a sort of similar Statham film I saw, The Beekeeper (2024), which to me was very average and unoriginal action movie.
Good movie where once I started watching it I didn't stop until it was done.
Turns out that H is a criminal mastermind out for revenge because a similar armored car robbery turned violent and one of H's loved ones was killed. As seen in a long flashback H and his crew go after other crime outfits looking for the crew but after turning Los Angeles criminal underworld upside down they come up empty and so H decides to go undercover to find the inside man that must have helped that opposing crew.
That other crew is hard to find because they are new to the scene. Led by Jackson (Jeffrey Donovan), the crew is made up of US Army veterans that served in Afghanistan under Jackson. They are meticulous planners and militarily precise during ops but one of them, Jan (Scott Eastwood), went a bit out of control in their last heist and murdered both armored car guards and an innocent bystander (which brings H into the picture).
This leads to the final act when Jackson and crew decide to go for The Big Heist — the armored car depot which will have almost $200M after Black Friday pickups. It's going to be a long and bloody gunfight inside a warehouse-like space between Jackson's heavily armed and armored squad and the more numerous company guards…
I really like this film. It has a sort of 1970's movie feel. Not as much of an action film even though there are gunfights but more about raising tensions for that final act. I like that the final battle isn't so much about H killing everybody since a lot of damage is done by the armored car guards. Statham is really good playing his usual type of character. Contrast to a sort of similar Statham film I saw, The Beekeeper (2024), which to me was very average and unoriginal action movie.
Good movie where once I started watching it I didn't stop until it was done.