A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promotion.
Acting
McAvoy's performance is genuinely terrifying—Oscar-worthy in a just world.
Direction
Baird keeps you laughing until you realize you're complicit.
Editing
The hallucination sequences are genuinely disorienting in the best way.
Director
Jon S. Baird
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting author) makes a cameo as the station master in the opening scene.
The film bombed commercially but McAvoy's performance is now cited as proof he should've been Bond—dark, dangerous, utterly magnetic.
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