i have be wait for meadow to make a film that fulfil the promise his short film show ever since see his short film where the money and ronny . and and with dead man shoe he finally deliver . it a remarkable reimagining of death wish a it would be in the real world and set among tatty midland housing estate with villain with crap car and a pathetic array of mail order weaponry . shot very effectively in a style somewhere between italian neo realism and early scorsese and even cassavettes improv but with a flavor all it own and it doesn not matter that one of the plot twist be very obvious ( so obvious and in fact and i be not even sure that it even mean to be a twist ) because co writer paddy considine be such a riveting yet natural presence in the lead represent he able to be genuinely threaten while keep it absolutely real and create a very believable monster . there no vanity and no attempt to go for the cool or the comic ( if anything he undercut the character attempt to do so without ever become a cheap joke ) and little in the way of grandstand . and the gutted close up of considine close his eye in a bus shelter be a truly remarkable piece of act without act . in an industry where lightweight like clive owen get lead role throw at them and he the real thing and quite possibly the great british actor of his generation . not for everyone and perhaps ( the reception in the u have be particularly poor ) and but one of the best low budget british film in a long time .