YMMV / Wrath of Man

• Designated Hero: Even with the film choosing to portray him as an anti-hero on a revenge killing spree, the simple fact of the matter is that H's son's murder is his own fault. He should NOT have brought him along when all he had to do was have the teen wait another fifteen minutes at the apartment. If his son had been a small child, then it actually would've made more sense; small children cannot be left without a parental guardian, but his son was nineteen years old and could easily have just gone back inside to wait, so all of H's self-righteous anger is ridiculous when it's literally his own fault his son is shot to death.
• Jerkass Woobie: Dana. She did steal some money in the past, but it's not hard to feel sorry for her at times. She gets disrespected at work, threatened with death by H after a one-night stand with him, has her family threatened, and gets unceremoniously shot by a trusted friend in the climax.
• Magnificent Bastard: Heargraves is a vengeful crime lord who masterminds a massive part of the story to avenge the death of his son Dougie. Running a smooth operation of criminals and gangs in Los Angeles, Heargraves began a rampage through the underworld when Dougie is shot dead by armored truck robbers. Heargraves would torture and bribe anyone in his path to finding Dougie's killer, while still showing a personal disgust at a group of Human Traffickers who he interrogates for information then personally murders the lot of. Eventually going undercover as Patrick "H" Hill at the Fortico armored truck company, Heargraves lays traps for truck robbers to draw out the gang who did in Dougie, and—after investigating and threatening several members of Fortico into compliance with his scheme—lures Jackson's gang to attack Fortico so Heargraves can wipe out the lot of them as well as Jan, the one who killed his son. Even when seemingly killed in the gunfight, Heargraves survives through sheer will, tracks down Jan at the height of his success, and ruthlessly shoots the criminal in all the places Dougie was shot when he died, exacting vengeance upon Jan while solidifying his control over Los Angeles by paying off federal agents with Jan's own fortune.
• Spiritual Adaptation: Many are already considering the film one for Grand Theft Auto V, considering the film's focus around heists. Furthermore, one could consider it a fusion of that and Grand Theft Auto IV, considering its other focus on gangsters and revenge.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The film hired an amazing character actor, Josh Hartnett, and then proceeded to do absolutely nothing with his character. The character has no arc whatsoever and just needlessly dies with the rest of the crew over money that was already established to be insured and that did not belong to any of them.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: H's general hypocrisy over the situation—being angry and killing everyone when he is responsible for his son's death by bringing him along on something that was potentially dangerous and the kid was old enough to simply have waited for him to return—plus the generic, unlikable crew makes it rather hard to get invested in the story nor in the characters. Statham's charm is also totally absent from the performance since it treats itself as a dead serious drama, so the bleak tone isn't even lightened by one-liners and quips, sadly.

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