In the
Blood
**
Dir: Mark Abraham. With: Joe Cole, Kenny
Doughty, Stuart Graham, Brian McCardie. 91 mins. Cert: 15
This lo-fi Brit debut
follows Hyena and Snow In Paradise in attempting to
convert its budgetary limitations into a grimily serious aesthetic, but it’s as
listless as its protagonist: a junkie safecracker (Joe Cole) given 24 hours –
without smack – to secure a payload for crimeboss Peter Bowles. Fine actors
(Alison Steadman, Phil Davis) nudge our boy forward, yet the rehabilitation and
race-against-time narratives prove fundamentally at odds: we’re left watching
two movies cancelling each other out. Its one oddly resonant image – the
shivering addict, alone in a basement with the unyielding safe – gets forgotten
about amid standard geezers-with-guns histrionics.
In the Blood is now playing in selected cinemas.
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