Hyena (2015)

People are voting emotionally.

I wanted to but couldn't!

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Great British film, real life and gritty!! It's great to see home grown talent in this honest, truthful British film.

Peter Ferdinando plays Michael, a bent cop trying to partially unbend himself. He's just made a deal with some very naughty Albanian gangsters, only to find they're being investigated by his division and he's being stitched up for a murder he didn't commit. He's up against it: His colleagues are a bunch of racist drunks; his arch-nemesis David (Stephen Graham) has just returned as his senior officer; and a clean-cut cop named Taylor (Richard Dormer) is on a mission to clean up the Met. Meanwhile, Michael takes it upon himself to rescue a trafficked woman named Ariana (Elisa Lasowski), while trying to keep his own girl Lisa (MyAnna Buring) from been chopped into little pieces. Laugh-a-minute stuff, then.The film starts boldly with a heavily stylised raid, followed by a scene in which Michael's crew drink and snort and mouth off about "Pakis". The script is as visceral as the violence; unpretty but pretty authentic. The best of the dialogue – and the most engaging character dynamic – occurs between Michael and David, and the film could have done with more of their tense, skilfully acted showdowns, and slightly fewer scenes of people receiving terrible news by telephone. But that's not to deny the film's grip. There's a genuine sense of danger throughout, and the central theme of cops "crossing a line" is consistently observed throughout – even if Michael's shambolic descent is telegraphed from the start."This isn't the 80s," one character remarks, although the sophomore feature of writer-director Gerard Johnson owes more than a little to the crime movie giants of that decade. Its yawning cityscapes and blue hues are like Michael Mann on tour in London, while the street level stuff – all shadowed alleys and vice-filled backrooms – are straight from Abel Ferrara. Indeed, Bad Lieutenant comparisons are particularly noticeable. Its more recent influences include Gaspar Noe's stalking camera-work and Nicolas Winding Refn's doom-scored spasms of ultraviolence. If all that appeals then great, but don't go in expecting to see anything new or particularly refined.Hyena is a decent gritty Brit-crime thriller, sophisticated in aesthetic if not in content. It's beautifully shot and lit, and the performances are strong – particularly Ferdinando in the lead, the underused Graham, and Kill List's Neil Maskell. Its preoccupations tap into (and exploit) modern fears of police corruption and immigration effectively. Yet all the way up to its ambiguous (read: mildly unsatisfying) ending it feels more like a set of long-established clichés updated to the twenty-teens than a bold new voice in home-grown gangster film.

This movie has a 5 rating as I'm writing this and its total b.s. This movie is fantastic! One reviewer writes about how bad the ending is. It's clear has not an intelligent movie goer. The meaning else right over his head. He believes they ran out of money and needed to add a different ending. The ending is purposely fine this way. Its brilliant and fits right in with the spirit and tone of the film. This is not a standard crime film as another reviewer states. It's far above any standard crime film. It's a crime film. So naturally it's about crime, but it's about a part of the London underworld that's hardly seen. Sure there are drugs involved and sex slaves. That's what crime is. If your going to make a film in the crime genre, it's going to have one of those elements in it. That doesn't make it standard. If you like dark films that demand your attention, your going to love it. Its very violent, and not for easily offended movie goers. I can see a lot of less intelligent individuals having a problem with the ending. I won't give it away, but I will say it's not the first movie to end in this fashion. I think it's the most natural way I've seen this type of ending used. So go see this film. If your a smart person. If your not go watch Transformers again.

I liked the film, but I hated the ending. The best scenes of this film, are in the middle. The films really needs to be longer and fix the ending. It seems like they rushed the film. This film has themes , which are standard in British crime films. I like the setting in London. Narrow alleyways, roads. London is a big place that feels like in any big city. Crime could happen any time. The room that the trafficking victim. feels like a dungeon. A cop trying to stop drug trafficking is more like a criminal himself. It takes time to realise that he is the cop. In the beginning I thought he was a thug just breaking into a nightclub. Later on I realised the night club was suspicious. The traffickers are from Albania. There not just here for the drugs, also for the young woman. Not the most of original ideas, but nearly a true story. One disgusting scene when an overweight man is trying to sex with the young woman. Drugged the woman before having sex with her. They are trying to sell the woman.