Brighton Rock
Crime-drama based on Graham Greene's novel that follows the misadventures of a razor wielding sociopath, the woman who loves him and the woman who wants to bring him to justice.
Updating Greene's text from the 1930s to the 1960s and utilising the mod vs rocker riots as its backdrop, Brighton Rock follows murderer Pinkie (Sam Riley, Control), who courts and then marries the only witness to his crime in order to stop her from testifying against him. As Pinkie covers his tracks, Ida Arnold (Helen Mirren), a friend of the murder victim, begins relentlessly tracking him down...
- Director:
- Rowan Joffe (feature debut)
- Writer:
- Rowan Joffe
- Cast:
- Helen MirrenAndy SerkisJohn HurtAndrea RiseboroughSam RileySean Harris
Reviews & comments
I beg to differ with the reviewer...
Only a few points... Riley is cast extremely well as he conjurs up the adolescent angst that this psychopathic character is meant to effuse in accordance with the novel. Greene describes Pinky as looking young and that is the whole point. He is a YOUNG pscyhopath which is meant to make it all the more disturbing. Also the Catholic edge is quite believable...
Urban Cinefile
pressThe film looks wonderful with moody lighting, haunting cinematography and affecting music score, but the characters are jumbled and confusing in Rowan Joffe's directing debut
TVNZ
pressIt's always hard to redo a film when another version exists that's deemed a classic.
Total Film
pressEnough is done right to make you wish they’d made better decisions and everything looks good in this colour noir… but the central relationship lacks conviction.
Empire Magazine
pressGreene fans will raise a sceptical eyebrow, but it's an adaptation brimming with enough ideas to justify this second stick of Rock.
Urban Cinefile
pressThe film looks wonderful with moody lighting, haunting cinematography and affecting music score, but the characters are jumbled and confusing in Rowan Joffe's directing debut
TVNZ
pressIt's always hard to redo a film when another version exists that's deemed a classic.
Total Film
pressEnough is done right to make you wish they’d made better decisions and everything looks good in this colour noir… but the central relationship lacks conviction.
Empire Magazine
pressGreene fans will raise a sceptical eyebrow, but it's an adaptation brimming with enough ideas to justify this second stick of Rock.
I beg to differ with the reviewer...
Only a few points... Riley is cast extremely well as he conjurs up the adolescent angst that this psychopathic character is meant to effuse in accordance with the novel. Greene describes Pinky as looking young and that is the whole point. He is a YOUNG pscyhopath which is meant to make it all the more disturbing. Also the Catholic edge is quite...
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