vengeance

Loyalty, vengeance and forgiveness are recurring themes — those, and plenty of guilt, as one would expect of a story featuring a man who spent eight years as a Catholic priest before joining the FBI.

His politics of vengeance and his desire to be the country’s first dictator are antithetical to his goal of getting into heaven.

After three hours of superhuman justice, humour, romance, and vengeance, cinemas are littered with popcorn like confetti, and fans spill into the streets, whooping with cathartic delight.

"You have a huge constituency of people in Bangladesh who wanted to see not just accountability but vengeance and retribution," says David Bergman, a journalist and a long-time Bangladesh watcher.

But a series of bizarre, vaguely threatening incidents seems to follow Yoshii, a patten that eventually reveals itself in the film’s second hour as a coordinated campaign to exact righteous vengeance on an online scammer.