
Overview
Genre :
Drama, CrimeRelease Date :
November 11, 2011 (Limited)MPAA Rating :
RDirector :
William MonahanStarring :
Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley, Ray Winstone, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Graham, David Thewlis, Anna Friel, Jamie Campbell Bower, Ben Chaplin, Sanjeev Bhaskar
REVIEWS RATE:
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[Rate It]
“..the film is a beautifully bleak brush stroke of contemporary noir, always an appealing backdrop for violent tales..”
by Betsy Sharkey [Los Angeles Times]

“..that there's nothing you've not seen or heard before here..”
by Kim Newman [Empire Magazine]

“..intriguing - initially..”
by Stella Papamichael [Digital Spy]
“..has verve and charisma, but, in the end, the tension of a late-night pub shrug..”
by Michael Atkinson [Village Voice]

“..draws superb performances from his cast in a fairly routine and not particularly plausible story delivered with verve..”
by Kyle Smith [New York Post]

“..direction is a lot more than making sure all your favorite parts of your own script make it to the screen intact..”
by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger]

“..a thoroughly gamey piece of work..”
by David Sexton [This Is London]
“..a superficially handsome crime thriller that doesn't tick..”
by Leslie Felperin [Variety]

“..a film with plenty of front, as they say, but uses up all its energy, wit and ideas in the first 20 or so minutes, before collapsing into a flurry of boring violence..”
by Peter Bradshaw [The Guardian]

“..a compendium of tedious gangster movie cliches..”
by Matthew Turner [ViewLondon]





