Director Mike Hodges and screenwriter Trevor Preston's dark revenge tale strips its crime-story cliches of their hopped-up energy and seedy glamour, leaving nothing but sordid sadness. Once notorious as the hardest man prowling the mean streets of unforgiving Brixton, a rough South London neighborhood, Will Graham (Clive Owen, star of Hodges' 1999 CROUPIER) collapsed under the weight of his own savagery and retreated to rural Wales where, his identity concealed under a scruffy beard, he lives out of a van and picks up casual laboring jobs. He's severed all ties with his old life, and not even his handsome younger brother, Davey (Jonathan Rhys Meyers); his girlfriend,...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
102 mins