Those with a soft spot for low-rent thrillers have become accustomed to expecting the unexpected, but when do you ever hear of a movie being released without a credit writer? Then again, in the case of Measure of Revenge, it’s easy to see why the unfortunate scribe would rather their name not be made public.
Directed by mononym filmmaker Peyfa and scripted by… somebody, the outlandishly odd and thoroughly terrible genre flick begins with a bizarre bang, and then keeps getting more unwieldy from there. Even more galling is the fact that it’s got an Academy Award winner in the lead, but even Melissa Leo can’t save Measure of Revenge from disaster.