- Overview
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
- Release Date
10 October 2014
- DirectingYann Demange
- Budget
$11,000,000.00
- Revenue
$3,200,000.00
- Stars
Videos
User Reviews
See moreCinemaSerf
17 March 2024
Though neither he nor Sean Harris should ever be described as particularly versatile actors, Jack O'Connell really does work well in this brutal and gritty drama. He ("Hook") is a soldier who becomes separated from his unit after a riot on the streets of Belfast sees his colleague shot in the head, and him pursued - unarmed - through an hostile urban terrain. He's been injured, is disorientated and is under no illusion that there are men chasing him from the Provisionals who want to kill him. What now ensues is a really tensely directed and sparingly written depiction of just how the "troubles" might have impacted on people of both religious persuasions at the time. Even those passionate about unionism or republicanism need not necessarily agree on the role of violence in their struggle, and as we follow "Hook" we encounter a variety of people whose sense of pity and human decency is as important as anything else. The photography also adds richness and intimacy to the scenario - largely filmed hand-held, at night by streetlight, and there is a real and increasing sense of jeopardy here. Will the boy make it or not? Politically, it goes some way to illustrating that nothing in this Province was as straightforward as it might seem - people with conflicting (and self) interests frequently throwing obstacles in his way that are as unwelcome as they ought to be unexpected. Speculative? Sure, it has to be - I doubt we will ever really know all of the truths from this conflict, but O'Connell, Sam Reid and Harris help deliver a complex and quite frightening observation of activities taking place quite recently in one of the world's oldest and most functional democracies.
More Like This
Children of the Fall
Rachel Strode, a young immigrant with a dark secret in her past, comes to Israel in the Fall of 1973 to volunteer in a Kibbutz and then to convert...
See more
Shanghai Express
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
See more
Bullitt
Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in...
See more
Dawn of the Dead
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
See more
Lawrence of Arabia
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War...
See more
Halloween
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of...
See more
Mission: Impossible II
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a...
See more
Paths of Glory
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
See more
Irreversible
A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone....
See more
Dirty Harry
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law...
See more
What We Become
The Apocalypse is not the end, but the beginning of a new understanding. The Greening killed billions, and only a man calling himself The Prophet...
See more
Breakdown Lane
When Kirby Lane's SUV breaks down in the middle of the desert, she must overcome the dehydration, coyotes, and lurking undead to find her way home.
See more
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful...
See more
Payback
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and...
See more
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to protect the...
See more
Color of Night
A color-blind psychiatrist is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's therapy group and becomes embroiled in an...
See more
Cop Land
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers...
See more
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
See more
Breakdown
When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't...
See more
My Friend Ángel
An experimental and critical view on the decadence of Honduran society. It practically has no narrative structure, as it plays out as a...
See more