“5 Lbs Of Pressure” (** out of four) was a flavorful but flawed underworld melodrama about an ex-con (Luke Evans) who returns home from prison for murder and is trying to piece his life back together but the brother of the man he killed seeks vengeance by any means necessary which results in him having to either walk away or return back to his past history of violence. Gritty NYC atmosphere (even though it was filmed in England) and solid performance from Evans can’t help you forget this is a story you’ve seen many times before, going all the way back to 1973 with Scorcese’s “Mean Streets.”

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