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Charlotte Kirk and Neil Marshall collaborate again, in a crime flick where Neil Marshall tries to channel his inner Guy Ritchie - maybe he should stick to horror if he wants to return to form.

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00:00Don't mess with Charlotte Kirk as Duchess, her latest collaboration with Dog Soldiers director

00:04Neil Marshall. Kirk plays a peck and pickpocket who becomes a gun-toting avenger when her diamond

00:10smuggler boyfriend Philip Winchester is killed. Although Kirk is not as egregiously miscast as

00:15she was in The Reckoning, and this is a better film than that, she still doesn't entirely convince,

00:19especially outside of the action sequences, which at least she gainly throws herself into.

00:24But this is an exploitation actioner by way of a Guy Ritchie movie, which is to say it's

00:28one of those films where literally every character is introduced with a freeze frame,

00:31a voiceover and a title card, and honestly with its Tenerife setting it feels more like

00:35Danny Dyer's The Business. Duchess seems to have forgotten that good revenge flicks don't

00:40take an hour to actually get to the revenge. The entire point of starting in media res

00:45is to skip the boring stuff, not go back and show it all. Frankly I was most alarmed by

00:50Neil Marshall's weak direction, with its flat scene coverage, crap CGI blood, poor pacing and

00:55wasting coal meanie, I'm even wondering where the Marshall that made Doomsday went.

Duchess (REVIEW) | Projector Shorts | Neil Marshall shouldn't be Guy Ritchie

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