There are sloppy geezerisms, flat-pack tough talk and an overexplaining narration that kneecaps the tension in Patrick McKnight’s dud crime thriller
‘How someone can inflict such sadistic brutality on another is beyond me.” So says Dublin ganglord Valentino “Val” Fagan (Rob McCarthy) when one of his underlings is raped – but it’s rich coming from someone seen executing his own men, dousing innocent security personnel in petrol and slapping his wife. But Patrick McKnight’s crime thriller isn’t overburdened in the self-awareness department – it’s too busy trying to romanticise the Irish capital as a tempestuous urban battlefield of cops and robbers. But with its flat-pack tough talk and wine bar decor, it winds up more like a Premier Inn-grade travesty of Heat.
Val is in a spot of bother: his Amsterdam partners, the Corrigan brothers, have lost a large transatlantic drug shipment, so they are rattling the...
‘How someone can inflict such sadistic brutality on another is beyond me.” So says Dublin ganglord Valentino “Val” Fagan (Rob McCarthy) when one of his underlings is raped – but it’s rich coming from someone seen executing his own men, dousing innocent security personnel in petrol and slapping his wife. But Patrick McKnight’s crime thriller isn’t overburdened in the self-awareness department – it’s too busy trying to romanticise the Irish capital as a tempestuous urban battlefield of cops and robbers. But with its flat-pack tough talk and wine bar decor, it winds up more like a Premier Inn-grade travesty of Heat.
Val is in a spot of bother: his Amsterdam partners, the Corrigan brothers, have lost a large transatlantic drug shipment, so they are rattling the...
- 3/8/2023
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
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