Hate, Actually: film so confronting you'll forget it's true

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Chadwick Boseman, Sienna Miller and Taylor Kitsch star in this action thriller about an NYPD detective who shuts down the 21 bridges across Manhattan to capture a pair of petty thieves turned copkillers. As New York goes into lockdown and the manhunt widens, numerous bigger problems emerge, turning a stock-standard manhunt into something else entirely., directed by Brian Kirk, is a slightly unusual Hollywood cop thriller for 2019, in that even the improbabilities are human-scaled.

"Davis has a way of getting himself into dangerous situations and has killed seven suspects in the field over the course of less than a decade. Hauled up before internal affairs, he insists his actions were justified in every case, though he looks less than chuffed when others on the force imply his track record should be a source of pride.

"In an almost teasing way, the film seems to offer itself early on as an apologia for police violence, calculated to rule out possible objections. We can't know for sure Davis' defence of his behaviour is watertight, but in the present at least his behaviour is anything but hot-headed. He's also black, ensuring neither we nor the other characters can accuse him of racism .

"But all this is just the starting point for twists that will complicate the picture – and there's also the more abstract side of the film, the chess game played out across the city. While Davis and his colleagues race to restore order before dawn, almost equal screen-time is given to the cop killers , not flat-out villains but petty crooks who have stumbled into a situation where they're far out of their depth.

 

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