Hi,
Last night's film was the Michael Caine, urban drama Harry Brown. Directed by Daniel Barber and with Emily Mortimer (Dear Frankie), Iain Glen (Tombraider), Ben Drew (Adulthood) and Liam Cunningham (The Escapist). The cast was very good, and the writing pretty strong, with a very good performance from Caine.
It was a bleak look at today's society and I would suspect that we all know areas like the one portrayed in the film. Barber caught the sense of loneliness the guilty found themselves in living under the constant threat of gang violence. But who would fight back and make a stand, Harry Brown ex-marine stepped up.
The violence and the script were both pretty hard hitting but they were kept in the realms of reality and served the film well. The other good thing was that they didn't turn Caine's character into some super ex-marine going round beating everyone down with his fists, he knew how to use a gun and how to kill!
Overall, good all round British drama (7/10)
Not a bad British thriller at all. Loved Caine in the title role and the supporting cast on the whole were fine (except Emily Mortimer's Character, the weakest link in the whole film in fact the police portrayal in general). Pretty bleak as you say with a sense of tension and dispair that comes from living in fear, powerless to prevent the inevitable conclusion regardless of who you tell. Showed the system for what it was, all mouth no actual trousers 7/10.
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