12/28/2022 0 Comments Inky deals reviewScalpello and Moorcroft drop some heavy-handed homages to the British underworld classic The Long Good Friday, which also hinged on mafia involvement in East End land deals, but their half-baked gumbo of third-hand thriller ingredients looks risibly amateurish by comparison. Spall even lends a tiny spark of topical mischief to the proceedings with a throwaway line about Britain’s ongoing Brexit crisis, which feels like an improvised addition to an otherwise relentlessly humorless script. Of the key players, only Spall rises above the mediocre material with his menacingly calm presence, all deadpan sadism and hollow bonhomie. Ripped and tattooed, Claflin has undeniable bad-boy sex appeal, but he makes a forgettably blank action antihero with this sub-Jason Statham performance. But in a crime-ridden borough where not even close friends and family members can be trusted, the battle to bring down the whole rotten syndicate inevitably comes with a high body count. When a fresh spate of murders throws new light on Cullen’s violent past, Liam vows revenge, forming an uneasy alliance with rogue detective Neil Beckett (Noel Clarke).
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