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The Debt Collector
Australia 2022
produced by
Richard Wolstencroft, Jason Byrne, Frank Howson (executive), Kent Williams (executive), John Hallford (associate), Nathan Hill (associate), Stephen Farrelly (associate), Darren Fishman (associate) for Ontological Pictures Guilty Content
directed by Richard Wolstencroft
starring John Brumpton, Kristen Condon, Roger Ward, Andy McPhee, Jack Ellis, Lee Mason, Glenn Maynard, Robert Morgan, Peter Flaherty, Malcolm Kennard, Astra Knight, Tas Pappas, Lucy Barret, Ray Mooney, John Flaus, Frank Howson, Antonios Baxevanidis, Nathan Hill, Albert Goikhman, Whitney Duff, Neil Foley, Gregory Pakis, Jason Turley, Paul Moder, Tony Nicholas, Marty Fogas, David Thrussell, Richard Masters, Michael Siu, Tritia DeViSha, Eri Sagayama, Jurgis Maleckas, Colin Savage, Les Toth, Natalie Heslop, Jessica Borg, Tom Liddy, Emma Rose, Darren Fishman, Barry Robinson, Moise Capalb, Nichelle Claire, Gary Deilenberg
written by Matthew Clayfield, Richard Wolstencroft, music by David Thrussell, Mark Bakaitis, special makeup effects by Emma Rose
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Vaughan (John Brumpton), who calls himself a debt collector, kills
people, mainly priests - which might make him sound like an evil person,
but he keeps his killing to those who have sexually abused him (and maybe
others) when he had been abandoned at an orphanage, and who had never
faced any consequences for their evil deeds. Thing is, in the basement of
one of the priests he has just killed, Vaughan finds Sarah (Kristen
Condon), a chained up woman wearing very little screaming for help - and
he does the only decent thing to do and sets her free ... heck, he even
drives her home. Now of course, it hasn't long for her to figure out what
he's about, and she asks him to collect some more "debts" in her
name, because you know, it wasn't just the priest who has abused her, he
was just part of a porn ring that made videos of her being raped by
various men, to be sold to perverts worldwide. At first he refuses, but
according to his moral compass, it's actually the right thing to do, so
ultimately he wills in and lets her even join his killing spree to get
some first hand experience. The whole operation goes without a glitch, but
thing is, one of the members of the ring, Tommy (Andy McPhee), was the
younger brother of gangster Baker (Glenn Maynard), and more than that,
Tommy owed Baker quite a bit of money. So, more than anything out of
principle, Baker has his men find out about Vaughan to go after him.
Problem there, this also attracts the attention of a rather naive
neo-nazi, Alexander (Jack Ellis), who knows about Vaughan's age old feud
with an Irish far right extremist writer, O'Hare (Roger Ward), so he has
him flown in to finally get his reckoning, and suddenly the hunter Vaughan
has become not just the prey, but the ultimate prize in a battle nazis vs.
gangsters as well ...
A really nice old-fashioned action piece that might not have
much new to offer to the genre, but what it does it does well, from
well-paced storytelling to well-staged action, to just the right amound of
all-out violence, to a certain portion of (self-)irony, to a certain macho
undercurrent - so in all it's very much a throwback to action cinema of
the 1980s and 90s, though without ever coming across as just derivative.
Instead, it's a fun, elegantly filmed and solidly action piece of genre
entertainment action films will appreciate.
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