- Film Review
- Reviewed By Damon Wise
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3 out of 5
A remake of Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn's gritty break-out 1996 Danish movie, this vibrant urban update set in post-rave culture East London works surprisingly well, mostly because its antihero Frank (Richard Coyle) is no longer a thick-set blue-collar bruiser but a charming, likeable cocaine dealer who mostly sells drugs to his friends. It's this which makes his descent into hell all the more dramatic, when a sure-fire deal goes horribly wrong and suddenly all the doors that once opened are slamming shut in his face. Coyle is by far the standout in a neon-saturated nightlife thriller that throbs with a persuasive clubland beat, but the elements around him don't quite match. Agyness Deyn, as Frank's beautiful but blank pole-dancer sweetheart, Flo, particularly struggles to muster the necessary sympathy that will see the film through to its crucial last stretch. The movie has personality, though, as well as a rare emotional intelligence that separates it from typical British gangster fare.
Plot Summary
A London drug dealer arranges a profitable trade, but the plan goes horribly wrong and he ends up heavily in debt to a sadistic Serbian gangster. He faces a race against time to raise the cash before the crime boss enacts a vicious retribution. Remake of the Danish crime thriller, starring Richard Coyle and Zlatko Buric.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Frank
- Richard Coyle
- Tony
- Bronson Webb
- Flo
- Agyness Deyn
- Milo
- Zlatko Buric
- Fitz
- Paul Kaye
- Hakan
- Mem Ferda
- Danaka
- Daisy Lewis
- Marlon
- Neil Maskell
- Jack
- Bill Thomas
- Maurice
- Ray Callaghan
Crew
- Director
- Luis Prieto
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