Hyena "- 2014 Edinburgh Festival opening gala reviews

Display:   Wednesday, June 18 / / 21:05 @ Festival Theatre
Directed by Gerard Johnson
Starring: Peter Ferdinando, Stephen Graham, Neil Maskell
112 minutes: Duration

Your mother always warned drugs were bad, but the director Gerard Johnson hyena has reached epidemic proportions. London 2014 and the drug is not only an internal process; Bands from all over Europe, to expand their empires and are not the type of people who share. Coca-Cola, and draining the blood from flowing freely through the city streets and shoes matter Metropolitan Police is more than a little dirty.

Hyena is a macabre tale of drugs, sex and murder - as the movie ticket -. Everything has a price Favorites' Up Peter Ferdinando is Michael Logan, the corrupt policeman who is in the awkward position right in the center of the drug trade, as it begins. With a plug in the pocket, coke in your nose and your boss behind his neck, to think that you have lost in a repeat tests Filth John Baird S, may be mistaken - but only briefly. For better or film is to show the British police in a particularly flattering light, Hyena Johnson is a pretty abomination.

While creative thinking behind the two main sources of foreign groups (Turks and Albanians) Drugs film can for debate, unbearable stereotypical manner, is presented below is, frankly, inexcusable. Yes, they are drug traffickers who sometimes get in the sale and prostitution of women at risk, but why exactly do they always have to do your country flag or traditional dance? Hyena could almost see ignorance that ethnicity acts of illegality and violence equates - regarded as useful propaganda to fire some UK political parties in this regard.

A similar unpleasant note, the portrayal of women in the hyena is, in short, obnoxious. They are helpless victims, toys, goods or accessories juices, their background stories not more explanation beyond revolves around male drivers have. In what is almost certainly the most controversial movie scene to be, is a victim of rape - and quite frankly voyeuristic graphic details for the progression of action is necessary.

Despite a convincing voice too ambitious Ferdinando Logan, hyena itself seems determined to remain a wannabe film. Too many good filmmakers (Abel Ferrara and William Friedkin, to name only two) already even made ​​the presentation of police corruption, a look in. revel in his own About get developed, struck with fists and screaming hyena strong - more misogynistic and hateful - vitriolic to attract our attention. Do yourself a favor: Keep your head down, clean hands, and forwards it.

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