Dom Hemingway
Director: Richard Shepard
Year Released: 2013
Rating: 1.5
"Brilliant" safe-cracker Dom (Jude Law), fresh off a 12-year-stunt in prison, returns to the Russian mobster (Demian Bichir) he took the fall for ... only to find his life spiral even further downhill. Seems to follow a trend of movies involving aggressive/sociopathic criminals who are meant to be a mixture of comical and terrifying (Bronson, in particular) and speak profanely and act like scum - that the Dom character experiences even more hardships and low moments and near-death incidents and somehow becomes 'redeemed' to a degree (he reunites with his long lost daughter and meets his grandson) borders on the implausible. Jude Law certainly relishes the speeches about his penis and general sense of scenery-chewing - sure, it's cringe-inducing and I didn't find it the least bit funny, but at least he's being paid adequately to act a fool. Debauchery is a mediocre second-hand experience.
