“A Violent Man” (** out of four) was a grim and unaffecting melodrama about a violent prisoner (Craig Fairbrass) imprisoned for murder who struggles for personal redemption while acclimating with his new cell-mate (Stephen Odubola) and a new daughter (Zoe Tapper) who he never met. Doesn’t connect emotionally, despite good performances and production, and goes flat after a while simply because it doesn’t have much story to tell. Fairbrass does what he can with a one-note role but he was far more terrifying and vivid in 1993’s “Cliffhanger” nearly 30 years ago.