In London, a drug dealer grows increasingly desperate over the course of a week after a botched deal lands him in the merciless clutches of a ruthless crime lord. The more desperate his behaviour, the more isolated he becomes until there's nothing left between him and the bullet his debtors intend to fire his way.
Acting
Coyle's sweaty, twitching descent into animal panic
Direction
Prieto's claustrophobic London feels like a trap closing
Score
Pulsing electronic nightmare that never lets you breathe
Director
Luis Prieto
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zlatko Burić reprises his role as Milo from Nicolas Winding Refn's 1996 Danish original—one of few actors to play the same character in a remake.
The 2012 version swaps Copenhagen's cold nihilism for London's sweaty multicultural criminal underworld, making Frank's isolation feel even more suffocating.
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