Who Needs Enemies (18) 91 mins *
Another week,
another set of mouthy geezers in suits mugging one another off. Peter
Stylianou’s microbudget thriller strives to rejuvenate the tired
honour-among-thieves narrative with some grim business about child sex abuse,
the detail of which is obscured from us less out of discretion than indifferent
storytelling. Events are wrapped in a certain low-level flash – wardrobe from
Burton’s, ominous chapter headings, narcissistic slo-mo – but it’s
fundamentally alienating: you have to cheer yourself up by reasoning the
grizzled faces drafted in to cameo as pederasts are those of retired newsagents
and market traders, sweet-talked into making a less-than-wise investment of
time and/or money.
Who Needs Enemies is now playing in selected cinemas.
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