Okay, as I’ve recently said elsewhere I’m coming up for air after wrapping a couple of big steps on some big projects. Still busy, but finally have time to squeeze in some screenings out of the massive mountain of blurays I’ve accrued/ignored—I say all of this to set-up the fact that out of that mountain of movies, this film is one that I was looking forward the most—and perhaps *the* film I was most dying to see. I mean, Kingsley…

Downright harrowing. Equally grueling and ferocious—those of you who require an easy rooting interest ain’t gonna find it here. Not in Billy Moore, played with frothing junk-mad gusto by Joe Cole in an extremely physical and emotionally dire performance. Moore is, without question, a piece of shit. We don’t see him “saving cats” in a pandering attempt to win our favor. Instead, we take a rollercoaster ride through hell at his expense. There’s a superficiality to the film in that…