We Are
Monster
**
Dir: Antony Petrou. With: Leeshon Alexander,
Aymen Hamdouchi, Gethin Anthony, Doug Allen. 85 mins. Cert: 15
This Noel
Clarke-produced indie tries hard to fashion a powerful statement on the murder
of Zahid Mubarek at Feltham YOI in 2000, even as a pronounced gap opens up
between ambition and execution: spinning off from a monologue delivered by Mubarek’s
racist killer Robert Stewart (screenwriter Leeshon Alexander), it plays like
clumsily opened-out fringe theatre. Director Antony Petrou fosters a brooding
atmosphere, but there are obvious limitations to putting us so inside Stewart’s
head for 85 minutes: the relentless white-supremacist rhetoric becomes
exhausting, drowns out any subtler editorial points, and leaves Mubarek himself
a mere cypher. Well-intentioned, but deeply flawed.
We Are Monster is now playing in selected cinemas.
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