Directed by:
David MichôdScreenplay:
David MichôdCinematography:
Adam ArkapawComposer:
Antony PartosCast:
James Frecheville, Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, Sullivan Stapleton, Dan Wyllie, Anthony Hayes, Laura Wheelwright (more)VOD (1)
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Following the death of his mother, the young ‘J’ Cody (James Frecheville) goes to live with his estranged gangster relatives. With conflict escalating between his family of criminals and the police’s armed robbery division, J finds himself at the centre of a cold-blooded vengeance plot. As he naively navigates his way through the criminal underworld, he is forced to question where his loyalties lie as he tries to decipher who he can trust and who can protect him as he struggles for his own survival. Starring Guy Pearce and Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom is a stunning modern crime thriller of brooding and brutal intensity. (StudioCanal UK)
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Formally, it’s ok, the problem is that Animal Kingdom feels as if it wanted to be a good gangster flick. Almost every sentence, every look and every scene feels that they are there only because someone wanted to make a universally good gangster movie – it all felt too cynical and forced. There’s no creativity, only an effort to fit in a category. It does work in some way, of course, but I’m not a fan.
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I guess it's because I've seen too many similarly-themed crime movies lately, but I just didn't enjoy this one. The acting is good, no question about it, but what's the point of me watching a movie with characters that are easy to hate, when there's nothing about them that I want to watch? And in the end, even the story failed to pull me in.
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