A revenge movie without a reason for revenge

Rating: 6/10 (27 May 2017)

I think the director started from the correct observation that too many revenge movies have very similar premises: the protagonist is revenging his family. The wife and daughter in Death Wish, the unborn baby and a four year coma in Kill Bill, the wife in Memento, the family in Gladiator, etc...
So instead of thinking that there might be a good reason for this family premise thing, our storyteller decides to break the mold and have the protagonist revenge... his puppy. A totally excessive and brutal retaliation in which dozens die, together with the perpetrator and his father.
But then again, on a second thought maybe it's not good to break completely free of this family premise after all... so let's make the puppy be a present from the recently deceased wife. Oh, but maybe the puppy is not enough? Let's have the expensive sports car of the protagonist be also stolen!
There there! Now we're creative, novel, traditional, and have insured that a large audience can clearly empathize with our Keanu Protagonist and cheer at the death of the bad people who did all these horrible things.
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Besides this lack of a reason for it's existence, the revenge is well executed, thus 6 stars.