I Am Wrath

Plot synopsis:
In the midst of a unprecedented crime wave in the city of Columbus, Ohio, Governor John Meserve (Patrick St. Esprit) gives a press conference about his crime reduction efforts. When questioned by protestors about a proposed pipeline, Meserve promises that he has commissioned an independent study of the pipeline. Abbie Hill (Amanda Schull) and her family are watching the press conference, and they are thrilled that the Governor has referenced the work her mother Vivian (Rebecca De Mornay) is doing.
Vivian heads to the airport to pick up her husband Stanley (John Travolta), who has returned from a job interview to manage a factory in Orlando, Florida. When they arrive at their car, they notice one of the tires is flat. Before Stanley can fix it, a man approaches and asks them for money. Stanley politely refuses, but another man sneaks up on Stanley and stuns him with a blow to the head. The first man stabs Vivian and takes her wallet. Stanley watches the men flee.
The police use Stanley's descriptions to quickly capture the man who killed Vivian. However, they let him go after Stanley positively identifies him. This enrages Stanley, and now that he knows the man's name is Charley, he starts to stalk him. When he sees a carefree Charley on the street, Stanley goes home and retrieves a case from behind a wall. The case has several passports, foreign currencies, and several weapons. He calls Dennis (Christopher Meloni), his friend from the Special Forces, and asks him for information about Charley and his crew. Dennis runs black operations from beneath a barbershop.
Stanley uses Dennis intelligence to track down one of the men who attacked him at a local bar. As the man lies dying, he hints that Vivian's murder was more than just a robbery. Stanley and Dennis are photographed as they dispose of the body. Local crime lord Lemi K (Sloan) is furious when he sees the photograph, and he orders hits on the men who killed one of his crew.
Stanley tracks down another man who was involved in the attack. He confronts him at a tattoo parlor, after getting the words "I Am Wrath" tattooed on his back. After killing the man, Stanley makes off with a bag full of drugs and money. Stanley and Dennis use the bag as bait to lure Charley to the VIP room at a Korean nightclub. Before being killed, Charley tells Stanley that Vivian's murder was ordered by Lemi because she was too nosy.
Lemi has tracked down Abbie and is holding her hostage. Stanley and Dennis arrive and kill Lemi. When two corrupt cops arrive, Stanley realizes the entire plot was organized by Governor Meserve. He infiltrates the Governor's mansion and murders him. When the police arrive, Stanley raises a weapon, prompting them to shoot him in his bulletproof vest. While he recovers in the hospital, one of the corrupt cops tries to assassinate Stanley, but Stanley shoots him with a hidden gun. Dennis spirits Stanley away from the hospital, and the film ends with Abbie reading a postcard from Stanley that he sent from Sao Paulo.

Tags: comedy, neo noir, murder, violence, flashback, revenge

Review:
It's a good action movie starring John Travolta.
The movie reminds me of a cross between John Wick and The Punisher (of which Travolta played the villain in the 2004 movie version).Travolta plays what looks like your average Joe, who watches his wife get murdered right in front of him by what looks like an average car jacking in a city that's been boiling over with violence lately, but it turns out Travolta has a past that was beyond average and goes Liam Neeson on the bad guys.Though he does not look as good as Neeson lashing out those particular set of skills on his wife's killers (but who does?),Travolta was still fun to watch as he hunted down his foes one by one, and just when he thought he was finish, turned out we have more villains to kill.
It's good banter.This action movie was a great safety net for Travolta, I can't remember the last time I seen him in something decent, and that's what this was, very decent, very watchable from the very beginning all the way to the very end..
Travolta has done much better work as a tough guy, notably in Luc Besson's "From Paris with Love." Here he is not given a multi-layered, finely nuanced character and makes little effort to bring new dimensions to a sparsely developed script.
'John Wick' made revenge movies look cool again, and 'I Am Wrath' really tries to emulate similar coolness but it falls out like toothless alligator trying to eat buffalo.
Chuck Russell's film is a hard-edged action thriller that keeps things simple over the course of its lean 90 minute running time.Travolta is Stanley Hill, a family man with a dark past who springs to action when his wife (Rebecca De Mornay) is murdered.
Case in point the very ending when the daughter played by actress Amanda Schull is in front of her home with husband and son get a postcard from Brazil, hum does that seem a tiny bit like the great Morgan Freeman getting a postcard from Tim Robbins in the classic film "Shawshank Redemption" ?John Travolta is good, but for this type of action film, he is not quite up to the great Liam Neeson or Denzel Washington.
I liked John's actions scenes much better in his film "From Paris with Love".
The best action fight scene in this film is with his co-star, Christopher Meloni in the barber shop fight scene which take it's cue from Denzel's night club fight scene in "The Equalizer" where he slice and dice up several Russian thugs in short order.Also there is pretty eye candy for us men who like to see pretty women and that is pretty Cuban Latina Doris Morgado.
Yes here it is folks another in a long line of 'Death Wish' clones and one which quite frankly isn't much cop...The story here sees Stanley Hill (John Travolta) hunting down the crew that killed his wife.
Many of the supporting performers don't fare much better and to be honest the only person who I thought made any kind of impact was Luis Da Silva Jr who was actually very good and he looked kind of menacing as well.Of course, a weak and generic story doesn't always matters in films such as I am Wrath as long as it has some style and intensity, but the film falls flat in these respects too - there's no real imagination here, there is some style here (although I personally feel the John Woo style slow-mo stuff looks a bit lame now).
I watched it, but the only feeling I had about it when the credits started rolling was indifference.I Am Wrath isn't completely terrible, but it's the sort of film that's so generic and so safe you'll likely be predicting what's going to happen 5 minutes before it does.
Like I said a generic story isn't a bad thing if you're made to care about what happens, but I just never got that feeling at any point during this film..
The action is heavy, the plot is sort of thin, but who cares, we got back up in the way of that cool bro, and pretty soon the grinder turns on and meatbags start flying, and there is no reanimating these simple thugs, they were born dead, out on the streets and they should've never messed with Trav's love, cause when Trav gets mad, he explodes like a racecar too long in the red, its got double packed Wrathful ending that will leave you spinning and wanting just lil' extra taste.
What it should have said instead was "out of work actor stoops to new low in the action film genre."Horribly predictable and equally painful to watch this movie was a total let down for me.
Yvan Gauthier and Paul Sloan are responsible for his tight script directed by Chuck Russell and for a change of pace in the current run of corruption in the police force and in politicians in general this film stands out as a cut above the usual tales.Stanley (John Travolta) works with cars (his history includes Black Ops years ago) and is happily married to Vivian (Rebecca De Mornay) when Vivian is killed by a group of thugs.
His version of Liam Neeson, an awesome new hair piece (most impressive part of the movie.) Meloni looks more intimidating than Travolta but nobody really cares.
Stanley's (John Travolta) wife Vivian ( Rebecca De Mornay) is killed in front of him and the cops let the killer go.
This becomes a multiple kill-scene movie as both Stanley and Dennis knock off the bad guys in a sort of systematic way and we think we are done.
This is not to be confused with a million other low budget action movies, by crappy directors, starring actors past their prime, like Wesley Snipes, Cuba Gooding, Dolph Lundgren etc, I Am Wrath is a lot better than those.
So twelve long years later I'm treated to "I Am Wrath".The film is about a man Stanley Hill(John Travolta of Saturday Night Fever 1977 fame), whose wife(played by the lovely actress Rebecca De Mornay who saw fame in the film The Hand That Rocks The Cradle 1992) is brutally murdered in front of eyes by muggers.
But in this case, Stanley Hill is totally justified.More John Travolta films: The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (TV Movie 1976), Blow Out (1981), Staying Alive (1983), Look Who's Talking(1989 and subsequent 2 sequel films), Pulp Fiction (1994), Phenomenon (1996), Broken Arrow (1996) & Face/Off (1997 Both directed by Hong Kong cult action film director John Woo of Hard Boiled 1992 fame), Michael (1996) and Basic (2003).
Along for the ride is Christopher Meloni as Travolta's right-hand man – they both make for a great pairing and it would be fun to see a few more adventures where the duo take-out a few more bad guys.
How many times can the good guys have guns pointed directly at their heads and simply spin round and knock the gun out of the way?If you've watched 'I am Wrath', then you'll know that the answer is at least 5.This would have been a far better film if Travolta had just been a regular guy instead of the oh-so clichéd Spec Ops agent who's put his past behind him, or if the villains had any sort of charisma or brains.
Well first of all don't expect a shawshank redemption out of this so stop being immatureThe movie starts pretty good and has a good follow up too The other thing is that this movie is not boring at all so its pretty fun to watch John Travolta is a very good actor and it makes the movie better This movie is awesome not 10 star worthy but because some people voted one star im voting 10 I don't want to spoil anything so its a good old fashioned revenge and action / crime fans will like it :).
John Travolta, who is a talented actor as well as a gentleman and nice guy, had better stay away from action roles.
I was honestly not expecting much from Travolta with a name like "I am wrath" and his pose evoking mid-nineties bad-cop action flicks, but as it turns out I was overestimating the film at that.
Like most revenge movies, Stanley has a dark hidden past and a set of skills that he revisits to uncover who is responsible for his wife's death.Without spoiling anything, there seems to be a trend in the world of cinema presently- an older man loses something, he just happens to have a set of skills and the villains have messed with the wrong man blah blah blah.I Am Wrath is overall just another B grade revenge story with a predictable story line straight to the finish line.
And that's sad, because the two main stars, John Travolta and Christopher Meloni have nice free flowing chemistry between them, and both of them are charismatic and talented to pull off bad ass tough guys with emotional range.
And let's not forget John Travoltas awful wig was also so bad it was hard to concentrate on this movie.
Outside of not being able to take my eyes off of Travolta's terrible rug, Meloni is the only thing worth watching in the film.
Well, honestly, then I didn't have all that much hope for it, since it was an action movie starring John Travolta.But director Chuck Russell managed to take my lack of expectations and give me a good and wholesome entertaining experience with "I Am Wrath".The story is about Stanley (played by John Travolta) whose wife is killed, and he seeks out vengeance upon those responsible.
And he seeks help with his old friend Dennis (played by Christopher Meloni) to accomplish this particularly violent task.Actually John Travolta and Christopher Meloni really carried the movie quite nicely.
An ex-CIA operative whose wife is murdered, is seeking for revenge.The script is ludicrous, the dialogs are terrible and they ruin the possibility of developing any chemistry between Travolta and Law & Order's Christopher Meloni, who plays his ex-CIA buddy.The action sequences are ridiculous too.
Also never forgets to be in close range so you can grab his gun, disarm him and kill him instead.I am really surprised that someone would write such a script in 2016, convince an international star like Travolta, who had his share on good action movies in the past and get a green light to shoot this.Even the latest of Steven Seagal's movies are better than this..
Not even close to what we should expect from John Travolta's acting, nor his contemporary fellow actors and this absolutely low grade, poor choice of a movie.
there is not anything here that we haven't already seen before."Unemployed engineer Stanley Hill (John Travolta) witnesses the brutal murder of his wife Vivian (Rebecca De Mornay) who was attacked by thugs in a parking garage.
It is only then that Stanley and Dennis are found to have a mysterious past that, until now, they kept very well hidden."Still, "I am Wrath" shows to be good enough to provide entertainment as we stand still watching two great actors, John Travolta and Christopher Meloni, working together to achieve vengeance..
I used to like movies with John Travolta.
at some point I was sure that Travolta reminded me of Schwarzenegger and after that I was glad that the movie ended and I got what was wrong with the Movie, it all comes down to its Director.The Director is Chuck Russell, and his finest hit on action of this kind was Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and I can't stop feeling like he was trying to recreate his master peace from 1996, and he did it, but we are not in 1996 anymore, unfortunate for Chucky .I voted 3 of 10 for this movie; I wanted to turn it off but watched to the end anyway.
John Travolta name wont save this movie from being less than average if it was released like 10 years ago it might be good movie but we have seen tons of similar ideas and movies that watching it now leaves you wondering why you wasted your time on such crab .
But that's beside the point.So, Travolta as the self-made avenging angel Stanley, who swings into action, along with his former colleague Dennis (Christopher Meloni), when his wife Vivian (Rebecca De Mornay) gets killed.
Now the rest of this review I cut and pasted from some other review because i had to fill up the space .Give me a good movie without one thousand bullets AND NO MORE little Dutch girl crap .He teams up with his old OPs partner that don't give him a choice and they start cleaning the streets, bad cops, and higher ups in the process of getting the ones that actually did the crime against his wife.
Ever since that terrible movie, Battlefield Earth, Travolta hasn't hit the peak that he had during the 90's, with films like Pulp Fiction, The General's Daughter, Michael, Phenomenon, Face Off, Primary Colors and a Civil Action, so it's really going to take a big movie to bring him back into the spotlight.
Budget: $18million Worldwide Gross: N/AI recommend this movie to people who are into their action/crime/dramas starring John Travolta, Christopher Meloni, Amanda Schull, Rebecca De Mornay, Sam Trammell and Patrick St. Esprit.
At least Travolta has had a good run as a movie star since his breakthrough in 1977 with Saturday Night Fever.He plays Stanley Hill who witnesses the murder of his wife in a car park.
The police appear to be uninterested in apprehending the suspects.However Stanley is ex special forces and he turns to his old friend Dennis and both plan on finding the murderers.Welcome to the world of the geriatric action thriller, it is Travolta's turn to go for the Liam Neeson 'Taken' dollar although he just seems so unsuited to be a hard ass action hero.Meloni and Travolta at least make a good team and as they delve deeper they find out that certain criminals in the city are protected and his wife might not had been a random victim.However the movie is uninspired and the ending horrible..
John Travolta is a very good actor and I feel for a direct to DVD film as this is was done exceptionally well by director Chuck Russell.The story is your typical revenge thriller formula but I think this was elevated by Chuck Russell and John.When I first seen this my expectations were low but was pleasantly surprised on how it was handled.
An Excellent Movie With A Great Actor Called John Travolta..
This movie knows we get it, so I was pleased with the ending.As far as John Travolta's wigs I don't know why he feel the need at this point in his career.
This movie knows we get it, so I was pleased with the ending.As far as John Travolta's wigs I don't know why he feel the need at this point in his career.
As they inflict vengeance, those involved in the cover up realise that Stanley and Dennis are more dangerous than they could ever have imagined...After the amazing success of the Taken franchise, it seems that once big A-list stars are trying to resurgence their career by doing their own vengeance/one man army movie.......geri-action if you would.Arnie did it with the last act of Sabotage, Cage did his with Tokarev, Costner did his with 3 Days To Kill, and Willis is in talks to do a remake of Death Wish.And here's Travolta's take on the vengeance movie, and it's a pretty strange movie, considering it's directed by Russell, whom showed a lot of flair with Eraser, The Mask, and even Nightmare On Elm Street 3.It's strange in the fact that nothing new is offered to the viewer.
A bad guy with an ulterior motive, and for no reason other than lazily explaining why Stanley is in possession and can access so many weapons.If it wasn't for this silly plot inclusion, thus making Stanley a human killing machine, instead of making him the Everyman we first thought he was, it would have been just that little more palatable.Travolta is fine, he can do this type of role, the grieving Husband/Father/Son walking in his sleep, so you'll spend more time looking at his wonderful hairline than his performance, and the action scenes are hilarious, Travolta's stunt double just has his back to the camera while the action is taking place, and it's right out of the Seagal school of poor stunt doubles.The one liners provided by Dennis, fall flat almost every time, which in turn, makes then the funniest one liners you've heard in a long time, they just seem so out of place when your main character has just lost his soul mate.For a generic action film, it's fine, it runs along at a steady pace, and provides no surprises for the viewer, just another nuts and bolts action film starring so done who wants to be as famous as he used to be.But Travolta must have really believed in the script because he gets a tattoo with the films title on his back, and he literally says the films title when he asked who he is.That is supposed to be one of the more tense moments of the film, but again, it's sadly hilarious.And for some reason, the ending reminded me of The Shawshank Redemption.Not terrible by any means, just a little pointless..
Playing the protagonist is John Travolta who looks really good for his age of 62, and is a treat of watch in action.
I don't know whats worse here: the morons on this site, actually thinking this is a good movie or John Travoltas fake looking wig.
Still, I feel that Travolta could have found a better movie project than "I Am Wrath".
Travolta is a great actor and at times it seemed like he could save the movie.