Plot
After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 6.4/10 (2,511 voted)
Director:Richard Shepard
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After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.
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Filming Locations: London, England, UK
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Rating: 8/10
A disorienting and ultimately disarming movie about a brutal Cockney
ex-con with Jude Law playing a part Bob Hoskins would have played 25
years ago. With slicked back, receding hair and mutton chops, Law
acquits himself very convincingly as a profane, poetic thug. Just saw
this film at the Toronto International Film Festival and it's very
entertaining, edgy and often gripping, with a satisfyingly soft heart,
given all the criminality portrayed. Props to Richard E. Grant as his
wiser sidekick and the rest of a wholly believable cast, most of whom I
don't recognize. Dom is a character akin to the crazed gangster played
by Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast and you can see why Law would relish this
part. And he attacks it with relish, bravado and just enough
vulnerability to actually make this brute likable. You end up rooting
for him due not only to story circumstances, but his basic humanity
despite his despicable behaviour. I don't know if real Cockney
gangsters would buy Law in the part, but I did. Worth seeing.
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