Synopsis
Give her a call, and she'll give you justice.
A once-abused woman devotes herself to ridding victims of their domestic abusers while hunting down the one she must kill to be truly free.
2018 Directed by Sarah Daggar-Nickson
A once-abused woman devotes herself to ridding victims of their domestic abusers while hunting down the one she must kill to be truly free.
Olivia Wilde Morgan Spector Tonye Patano Judy Marte Betsy Aidem C.J. Wilson Chuck Cooper Kyle Catlett Estefania Tejeda Cheryse Dyllan Marceline Hugot Paige Rhea Beverly Atkinson Theather Huggins Rebecca Spiro Ebony Hilaire Kimberly Tavarez Ivan Tavarez David Shumbris Keith Siglinger Jim Ford J.D. Williams Wade Mylius Olivia Gilliatt Crystal Lake Evans Margot Bingham Mary Testa
George Furla Randall Emmett Olivia Wilde Ambyr Childers Lars Knudsen Andrew Corkin Timothy C. Sullivan Allison Rose Carter Jon Read Alexander Eckert Tyler Campellone
Henry Winterstern Robert Jones Jared Underwood Ted Fox Arianne Fraser Thomas Benski Mark Stewart Wayne Marc Godfrey Arnaud Lannic Bryan Reisberg Christophe Lannic Andrew C. Robinson Slava Vladimirov Delphine Perrier Mitch Lowe Ted Farnsworth Boden Anderson
Uncorked Productions Pulse Films Badlands Entertainment filmscience MoviePass Films River Bay Films Highland Film Group EFO Films Saban Films
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A vigilante is about a woman named Sadie a victim of domestic violence turned vigilante who helps fellow men, women, and children who are in a similar situation and are also in search of her husband who abandoned her.
First things first this is a fucking underrated movie IMO, the plot is mediocre but is elevated by Olivia's outstanding performance it's like she was built for this role, the movie balances the tension throughout the runtime with some intense violent scenes at the same time it respects the subject matter of domestic violence and is able to portray the trauma, helplessness, and total mental breakdown that the victims go through, which in this case is suffered by Sadie who can…
Olivia Wilde is an actress that isn't afraid to get down and dirty. The film opens with domestic abuse victims telling their story docu-style. I have to admit the beginning wasn't as engaging. However, Wilde's Sadie decides to take matters into her own hands after an abusive partner crossed the line. She helps other women and children escape. It isn't as thrilling as it is brutal. However, it did make me realize that most superhero films involve a man saving a woman from a burning building. What we need is a superhero to save us from harmful partners that will hurt us and possibly children as well.
This extreme take from a woman's gaze means so much. Hopefully, this film will inspire men and women alike to reach out to someone who is hurting.
Vegan alert:
A dead bird is shown.
i love how the negative reviews of this film are like “it’s just olivia wilde beating up abusive men for 90 mins” as if that’s not the exact same reason i’m giving it 4 stars... we simply LOVE to see it!
Raw, focused transmutation of trauma into acts of righteous justice. Will make for a decent B-Side to Ramsay’s YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, but comes nowhere close to that picture’s greatness. Wilde is an exposed, oozing wound. Worth it for her alone. Only a woman could’ve made a movie this nakedly honest about the evil abusiveness of men.
Reminded me a bit of Lynne Ramsay’s YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE. Olivia Wilde is phenomenal in this.
Fantastic film and will be on the lookout for Sarah Daggar-Nickson’s next feature. Highly recommend this (especially since it’s on Amazon Prime Video), and go in as blind as possible.
This is not a movie that exploits female pain for a cathartic revenge power fantasy. It does not fetishize violence to give us a cathartic sense of relief and victory. Instead, this is a movie that explores the trauma and violence inflicted upon its victims, told squarely from the victim's point of view. We arrive at the scene just before violence or just after, but the movie never shows the physical act of domestic violence, because it does not want to shift its focus from the victims to the abuse in itself, and the movie rarely actually shows the violence inflicted by Olivia Wilde onto those who deserve it, because it doesnt want to indulge in its violent impulses in…
Very rough and raw, Is a bleak and violent movie, but is also one that, for a movie about a woman that spends her time getting victims of abuse out of their situations and hurting those abusing them, makes a point of not glorifying violence, the scenes of her fighting are well done but are not many and they never frame them as something cool or even triumphant, but more as an extreme measure for very messed up situations.
Olivia Wilde is amazing in this, she goes all in, and is her best performance to date, she is completely raw and simply nails every aspect of her character, elevating the whole movie to another level.
It meanders a bit but…
An excellent performance by Olivia Wilde boosts this film beyond a rather average script. The subject matter is very important, but unfortunately I couldn't help but feel like it could have been a lot better.
Quick Review
With the premise of the abused taking the fight to abusers, A Vigilante is quiet but tense and well crafted character study substantially elevated by a commanding and career-best performance from Olivia Wilde. Debuting writer-director Sarah Daggar-Nickson is at best to have steady control over the script and look/feel of the film unique from other thrillers like it, perhaps due to the virtue of being more of tight drama than action-oriented. Working alongside DP Alan McIntyre Smith's steely cold and somewhat detached sense of atmosphere along the white snow, the camerawork likewise is never at ease with its numerous angles of closeups, attaching an intimate, dangerously claustrophobic element into the story. Thereby enormously benefitting Wilde, who's the fervent…
"If you bother her or the kids or anyone they know, in any way, I will kill you. I want to kill you."
Olivia Wilde's performance in A Vigilante reminded me a lot of that of Joaquin Phoenix in You Were Never Really Here. They're both two very damaged people haunted by events in their pasts, his more long reaching and more of them, but horribly traumatic events nonetheless. The fact that they both choose to help others dealing with similar trials in order to stave off their own anguish says more about them both than either of them ever would.
Unfortunately, A Vigilante is not as strong a film as You Were Never Really Here, but it's an important…
There's no point in trying to sugar-coat this, this is one really grim film. As someone who struggles to watch violence against women onscreen, this film left a bad taste in my mouth regardless of the message of hope it sends out that survivors of domestic abuse can escape. Featuring a very different performance from Olivia Wilde as a victim who has become a saviour of others, this film is violent, provocative and at times sickening in it's portrayal of abuse towards both women and children.
Olivia Wilde plays the vigilante of the title here, dispatching vengeance to perpetrators of abuse, both psychically and financially, having been the victim of it herself. Throughout the film we see her help battered…
Was momentarily surprised by the 5.6 rating on IMDb, until I remembered that dickless men’s-rights babies are responsible for 95% of online movie criticism