After escaping her violent husband, Sadie makes it her life's mission to help free others in danger. After months of rigorous training in survival skills, boxing, and lethal martial arts, she is back with a vengeance.... (Full plot summary below)
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After escaping her violent husband, Sadie makes it her life's mission to help free others in danger. After months of rigorous training in survival skills, boxing, and lethal martial arts, she is back with a vengeance.
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| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzThe evident smallness of the production belies its power to disturb. It's like one of those knives that are small enough to be hidden in a coat sleeve or the lip of a boot but that can still cut a man's throat. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanAs an actress, Olivia Wilde has been something of a shape-shifter, but in this movie she seems to be burning through all her previous roles to find something essential. She 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.” |
| Den of GeekDavid CrowNot only does Daggar-Nickson reimagine a reductive reverie into one of harrowing, feminine empowerment, but she does so in a way that is wary of violence, even while using it to defang the type of toxic masculinity that has long wallowed in this genre. |
| FILMINK (Australia)Travis JohnsonA bleak, challenging, and angry piece of cinema, A Vigilante uses familiar genre tropes to explore uncomfortable truths. |
| The PlaylistJordan RuimySober, unflinching and fits perfectly with the current political movements such as #MeToo and #TimesUp. |
| We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoA Vigilante succeeds not by exploiting torture, but instead shifting focus to Olivia Wilde's painful, so very real performance. |
| New York PostSara StewartThe film manages to be both hopeful and devastating — and recommended viewing for anyone who subscribes to the facile notion that abused women should “just leave.” |
| ObserverRex ReedAfter "Enough" and five "Death Wish" movies, the revenge genre is not without its recurring clichés, many of which get defrosted and microwaved again in A Vigilante. The point, if there is one, is that “heinous criminal felonies are acceptable if they are justified by a woman driven beyond the limits of reason.” As one battered wife says, “Every graveyard is full of people who didn’t make it.” The same is true of old movies gathering dust in Hollywood film vaults. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeA Vigilante offers some grim, imaginary satisfactions in support of real survivors who need whatever help we can give. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThe two sides of A Vigilante are ultimately held together by Wilde’s ferocious performance — which swings between steely control and eruptive emotion — and by the way Dagger-Nickson frames nearly every moment from Sadie’s perspective. |
