Orlando Bloom in ‘Retaliation’: Film Review
What if you were an international star who’d had a supporting role in two of the biggest franchises of all time, then you went on to deliver the best performance of your career in a tough, tiny British drama, and hardly anybody noticed? Chances are,That’s how long it’s been since he played Malky, a lapsed Catholic tormented by childhood sexual abuse, in “,” a remarkably nuanced alternative to the grudge-bearing revenge genre from a pair of first-time feature directors, siblings Ludwig and Paul...
It takes a real man to portray someone who swaggers into the local bar like he owns the place, wearing his prison time as proudly as his tough-guy tattoos, but wilts when his mother treats him like a child. By accepting the part, Bloom also accepts that screen-caps of a certain scene — when Malky strips down and lubes up a wooden rod to administer a cruel form of self-flagellation — will be seen online by more people than ever pay to watch the movie.
He’s tougher on his girlfriend, Emma , whom Malky keeps at arm’s length. Trust isn’t his strong suit, and who can blame him, given what happened when he was 12? As audiences, we want to see him get better, and the conventional wisdom of cinema — and certainly any film called “Retaliation” — is that revenge will do the trick. But if the burden of guilt is his problem, how could murder possibly solve it? If screenwriter Geoff Thompson wanted to convert us, forgiveness might be in order.
Resentment, it has been said, is like letting whoever hurt you live rent-free in your head, and by clinging to the pain, Malky is only hurting himself more. When another priest attempts to offer counsel, Malky picks a fight instead, nearly provoking this man of God to murder him on the altar. The film’s style isn’t as austere as Paul Schrader’s recent “First Reformed,” but the underlying sense of penitent self-punishment hails from his playbook.
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