A stunning, intelligent thriller
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20225/10
When his son is shot, "Sternwood" (Mark Strong) has to return from his Icelandic hideaway to get to the bottom of it all. That puts him back squarely into the sights of cop "Lewinsky" (James McCoy) who has an old (and painful) grudge. What now ensues is a really formulaic and unimaginative drama, though, as both men realise that they are being played by a higher, manipulative and malevolent power and conclude they are better together. Despite a decent cast, including the usually reliable Andrea Riseborough ("Hawks") it all just fails to ignite. The dark, eerie, photography loses it's potency pretty quickly, as do the flashbacks filling in most of the backstory - leaving us with a pretty generic crime thriller that is pretty light on thrills. Forgettable stuff, sorry.
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Cast
- James McAvoyMax Lewinsky
- Mark StrongJacob Sternwood
- David MorrisseyThomas Geiger
- Peter MullanRoy Edwards
- Daniel MaysNathan Bartnick
- Andrea RiseboroughSarah Hawks
- Daniel KaluuyaJuka Ogadowa
- Ruth SheenIris Warns
- Jason FlemyngHarvey Crown
- Elyes GabelRuan Sternwood
Crew
- Eran CreevyDirector
- Eran CreevyWriter
- Ed WildDirector of Photography
- Harry EscottOriginal Music Composer
- Chris GillEditor
- Rory AitkenProducer
- Ben PughProducer
- Brian Kavanaugh-JonesProducer
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