Tuesday 28 June 2011

The Veteran (2011) 4/10

Starring : Toby Kebbell, Brian Cox, Ashley Thomas, Adi Bielski, Tony Curran
Director : Matthew Hope
Running Time : 95 mins

Robert Miller (Hope) returns from a tour of duty in Afghanistan and finds himself fighting a war of sorts on the streets of London when he takes a job in undercover surveillance – his first job being to track some people suspected of being involved in terrorist activities. When he finds out that those he’s working for might be involved in future attacks themselves, he sets out to stop them by any means necessary.

Man, this movie got on my nerves. It was bad enough that Ashley ‘Bashy’ Thomas possesses an accent that slips from Jamaican patois at the beginning of the movie to a West London tone by halfway, and that Toby Kebbell acts like he’s in a badly scripted comedy, but the storyline itself was just annoying – I mean, why would Brian Cox and co employ someone who is clearly so patriotic as an ex-soldier as part of their terrorism scam? And as for the ending, I just wanted to punch out that stupid little kid! So basically terrorism wins!

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