Complicity
2000
Newspaper Reporter Cameron Colley, having built his professional reputation on stories dealing with corruption and the underworld, is drawn into a web of deceit and murder when a serial killer begins a rampage. Elaborately staged deaths await victims who all have one thing in common -- they are about to be exposed by Colley. .. Read more
| Starring | Jonny Lee Miller, Valerie Edmond, Keeley Hawes, Brian Cox |
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| Director | Gavin Millar |
| Genres | Thriller |
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Complicity
Newspaper Reporter Cameron Colley, having built his professional reputation on stories dealing with corruption and the underworld, is drawn into a web of deceit and murder when a serial killer begins a rampage. Elaborately staged deaths await victims who all have one thing in common -- they are about to be exposed by Colley. Armed only with his wits, the reporter must uncover the truth before more innocent lives are taken. Based on the novel by Iain Bank.
| Starring | Jonny Lee Miller, Valerie Edmond, Keeley Hawes, Brian Cox, Rachael Stirling, Andy Gray |
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| Director | Gavin Millar |
| Studio | ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 40 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 19 Jun 2000 Production year: 2000 |
| Format | DVD |
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You'd be better off going back to Iain Banks's original novel than waste your time with this convoluted and unsatisfactory adaptation. Jonny Lee Miller stars as Banks's journalist antihero Cameron and, despite support from Brian Cox and Bill Paterson, he's endlessly bland. Director Gavin Millar seems all at sea with this Scotland-based tale, which involves sex, drugs and murderous atrocities. The excellent Keeley Hawes is wasted as Miller's married lover.
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It says a lot about the British film industry that dross like Rancid Aluminium commands a wide theatrical release,... read more on Time Out
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
A Scottish seven...only much much better!
If my memory serves me right then this excellent British (Scottish) film which is both well made, well told, and is also fairly close to the (superb) Iain Banks book on which it is based.
A series of horribly grizzly murders (much of it shown or described) are pinned on a Scottish hack journalist. Flash backs paint a vivid picture of seemingly idyllic childhood..."seemingly". The why's and who's as the film pans out are pleasingly original & shocking.
An excellent score from Colin Towns.
Superb cast list – Jonny Lee Miller, the fantastic Brian Cox, beautiful Keeley Hawes (a dead ringer for Keira Knightley? Or is that just me?), and the ever reliable and watchable Bill Paterson.
Makes me wish 'The Wasp factory' film would hurry up (as mythical and endlessly delayed as Douglas Adams' masterpiece HHGTTG...which is nearly finished, so there is hope) and look forward to the Iain M. Banks Sci-fi film in the pipeline.
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North of the Border
A very gritty version of Iain Banks's novel, interweaving the stories of a journalist being fed leads by a mysterious source about a series of ghastly murders and, through flashbacks, that journalist growing up with his friends. The two strands dovetail most ingeniously. As a thriller, this is tight and intriguing, and as a picture of the values of a generation, it's quite uncomfortable. Worth watching.
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