The Veteran The Veteran

A True Soldier Never Leaves The Battlefield

Soldier Robert Miller returns home from Afghanistan unable to fit back into society.Living on a violent council estate and finding work in undercover surveillance, he becomes obsessed with taking down a group of local gangsters who are intrinsically tied to a suspected terrorist cell. Taking the situation into his own hands, Robert embarks on a brutal quest for justice, with devastating consequences.

Toby Kebbell Brian Cox Tony Curran

Local Films Premiere Picture Veteran Pictures Media Pro One

foreign thriller action

98 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Chris Armstrong

    Review by Chris Armstrong ★★★★

    Really enjoyed this, it's kind of like a mix of Dead Man's Shoes and Spooks with a bit of Death Wish-esque vigilante revenge thrown in there for good measure.

    Toby Kebbell proves once again that he's one of the best young actors the UK has right now and I think it'll only be a matter of time until he lands a role that turns him into a household name.

    It's a shame the cover art makes it look like a run of the mill direct to DVD action movie, as that's not the case at all. Yes there is some action, but it's more of a thriller than anything else.

    Highly recommended.

  • Bubs

    Review by Bubs ★

    Sotaveteraani. Paljastus. Salaliitto.

    Susipaska.

  • Henrik Wilhelmsson

    Review by Henrik Wilhelmsson ★★★★

    Read many not too good reviews on this, but it's actually a really good movie.

  • Stokke

    Review by Stokke ★★½

    Ok, but not great. I'd rather watch 'Dead Mans Shoes', 'Attack the block' or 'Taxi Driver' again. Feels like a combination of the three, only they are all superior to this one.

  • Ryan1138

    Review by Ryan1138 ★★★★

    Superb. Almost a British Taxi Driver.

  • Frankie_L4_87

    Review by Frankie_L4_87 ★★★

    Decent low budget British thriller about a psychologically damaged Afghan war veteran who uncovers a conspiracy between the British intelligence service and local drug dealers on his estate. It's well acted, never overtly right wing (the material suggests it could be) and even though it meanders in the middle it makes up for it with a remarkable final shoot out which was clearly influenced by Michael Mann's "Heat". Never outstanding but worth seeing.

  • Ben Brewer

    Review by Ben Brewer ★★★½

    A well made, often thrilling action film that makes the most of its budget and is bolstered by a strong performance from Toby Kebbell.

    The two plot strands don't gel together as well as I'd have liked, and the ending seems somewhat rushed, but there are enough good moments to balance this out.

    There are far worse ways to spend ninety minutes.

  • Ed Travis

    Review by Ed Travis ★★½

    This didn't have as much of an impact on me as I hoped it would.

    I did an article for AICN a couple months back all about the recent spate of "estate" films or "tower block" films. It was just a fun, list-style article that covered some movies set in those British versions of America's projects.

    I have to say that THE VETERAN is going to fall pretty low on my list of films set in those locations.

    I like the lead, Toby Kebbell, who I still think of as the guy from ROCKNROLLA. And the final act is pretty brutal.

    But the warring stories (1 an espionage thriller, 1 a ghetto gangster tale) don't really mesh very well throughout.…

  • Ian Palmer

    Review by Ian Palmer ★★

    Passable. I will say there's more than a few estates in this country that could use a veteran lol