Filth

Parental Rating: R

Contains: Language    Nudity    Violence    Sex    Drug Use    Adult Content    

Jill's Review

Opens June 6, 2014 in Dallas (Tentative)

Runs 97 minutes

James McAvoy is Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson, a boozing, drug-taking, over-sexed dirty cop. He generally phones it in while taking advantage of every perk assolciated with his job. However, now he is out to crack the latest case, earn his promotion to Detective Inspector and win back his wife and daughter. He knows what he needs to do but the harder he tries, the farther off track he falls. He begins to hallucinate and as the lithium bottles pile up on his dresser, you know he is headed for a breakdown. Will he get it togther, crack the case and win the promotion and his wife or will he fall apart completely?

James McAvoy is great in this movie. But, you dislike him so much that it is hard to care what really happens to him. This movie is full of bad language, drugs and overall debauchery. It has a great cast including Jamie Bell, Jim Broadbent, Imogen Poots, Eddie Marsan (hilarious) and Shirley Henderson (also, spaced out funny) but most of them are underused. The movie starts out pretty good but it veers into really strange territory. It is defintely NOT for the easily offended. I would skip it and see something  a little more worthwhile.

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