Director Neil Marshall has spent the last four years of his career trying to turn his romantic partner, Charlotte Kirk, into a movie star. The pair have previously collaborated on “The Reckoning” and “The Lair,” two dreadful films, and they return with “Duchess,” also claiming credit for the screenplay. Unlike their previous endeavors, the new offering isn’t a horror experience, but a criminal one instead, with the couple going the Guy Ritchie route with yet another study of British gangsters getting caught up in underworld power plays that require brute force to break. “Duchess” isn’t an inspired intimidation game, and, once again, Kirk can’t carry the picture, offering flat work in the central role of a woman going to extremes while seeking revenge on those who killed her crook of a boyfriend. Marshall has nothing much to offer, relying on cliché and shots of a half-naked Kirk to make it through the lifeless feature. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com