Wild Justice
(DIAL) ((BRITISH))
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Billing itself as "an action-packed, psychological thriller," the Welsh-lingo "Wild Justice" is no such thing. This flatly scripted, and even more flatly directed treatment of the subject of lightly punished female rape is a major letdown after director Paul Turner's impressive, well-considered World War I elegy, the Oscar-nominated "Hedd Wyn."
Dramatic spark is lit when when the youngest daughter of the Hughes family is beaten, raped and left for dead one night. When the perpetrator, Griffith (Nick McGaughey), is released from stir after only three years for manslaughter, the dead girl's elder brother sets out to wreak his own idea of justice on the man.
Milling around in the plot is a sister, Rhiannon (Nia Medi), who's fled back home from London after catching her boyfriend in bed with another woman. She just happens to be a karate student and, while trying to stop her brother's revenge plan, ends up with the rapist in a remote mansion.
Most of the central section of the ilm is composed of endless sequences of people driving around the countryside in cars. With little dramatic glue, thinly drawn characters and almost no sustained tension, the pic falls apart early on.
Tech credits and performances are standard. An English-language version, shot side-by-side, is reportedly in the works.
With: Nia Medi, Dafydd Emyr, Nick McGaughey, Christine Pritchard, Trevor Selway.
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