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Dark, powerful crime drama not for the sqeamish
chuckturner from ,
16th October, 2006
At the opening of this extravagantly gory, tightly-wound thriller, two thugs cold-bloodedly murder a third and fake his suicide. Then we discover all three are (were) cops. Crime films don't come darker than this (it's astonishing to discover it was made for television); writer Simon Donald seems to be influenced by David Peace's novels. Hard as it is to watch some of the events portrayed in this world of violence and corruption, the film is saved from damnation by towering performances by Mark Strong and Brian McCardie as the cops bound together by their crime; and by the gradual, quite moving revelation that the motivation for the bloody events turns out to be pure, uninflected, unselfish love.
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