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The Guilty (2021)  
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Director:
Antoine Fuqua |
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COUNTRY
USA |
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Genre
Drama/Thriller |
NORWEGIAN
TITLE
The
Guilty |
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RUNNING
TIME
90
minutes |
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Producer:
Jake Gyllenhaal
Riva Marker
David Litvak
Gary Michael Walters
David Haring
Michel Litvak
Svetlana Metkina
Antoine Fuqua
Scott Greenberg
Kat Samick |
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Screenwriter (based on the Danish film from 2018):
Nic Pizzolatto |
Review
This remake of the 2018 film
Den skyldige by Danish filmmaker Gustav Möller is well-acted by
star Jake Gyllenhaal, who does well to create tension and depth with the
camera pinned on him for 90 minutes. But although the story is clever
and potentially explosive, the picture has clearly been run through
the Hollywood grinder to remove every nuance deemed to be in excess.
The result is a film that holds up with suspense and verisimilitude for
half its running time before slipping into familiar and predictable
territory. Director Antoine Fuqua (Training
Day) isn't able to cloak and uncloak the story's
peculiarities and puzzles quite well enough. A number of familiar voices
appear on the phone with Gyllenhaal's character. Naming them without
looking at the cast list may well be the most challenging
mystery-solving here.
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