Lean, mean and electrifying

A violent homophobic assault leaves Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) traumatised. Only for a chance encounter that reveals that his attacker, Preston (George MacKay), is a closeted gay and leads him to plot his revenge.

Clocking in at just a smidge over ninety minutes, this electric little thriller doesn’t waste a single second of its run time. The tension starts to crackle within the first few minutes and refuses to abate until the credits roll.

Oddly enough, it reminds me a lot of the Michael Caine/Laurence Olivier film Clue.1 But where that film’s plot twists and role plays were the result of devious plotting, here it’s down to the shifting sands of the emotional state of the characters.

Perspectives change and turn as the characters learn and grow, leading to a sense that you can never quite put your finger on what, exactly, is happening and where it’s going to go.

Absolutely top draw stuff.

  1. They are not similar films, this is just how my brain works sometimes ↩︎