“Vengeance” (*1/2 out of four) was a disjointed comedy thriller about a fugitive (Leslie Grantham) on the run for a murder he didn’t commit and returns to his hometown in London after 27 years to help his estranged daughter (Crissy Rock) who was brutally attacked and he resorts to his own form of retribution and his former friends to enact revenge. Strenuously uneven story can’t decide whether it’s a witless comedy, a limp revenge thriller, or an uninvolving underground melodrama and thus doesn’t make an impact as anything. Grantham’s sincere performance is film’s one positive grace.

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