Friday, 27 August 2021

VOD: Misrule (dir: Matthew Goddard, 2017)

"Sometimes it's good to keep something back for when we're desperate....and we are."

This quickly-shot micro-budget British spy thriller tells the story of a maverick lone-wolf secret agent whose career and marriage are both in trouble, who gets teamed up with a new partner, with unexpected romance and tragic consequences ensuing.  Shot in an oddly deserted Plymouth, mostly at night, there is clear ambition to make location work look as visually cinematic as possible, but whilst the film has some interesting ideas it frequently falls short in both the wildly varying performances and writing, rendering the story somewhat unconvincing overall.  
 

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