Blitz, dir Aiden Gillen, Paddy Considine, Mark Rylance, Ken Bruen, dir Elliott Lester
Messy. There are many backstories to this movie. There is the good cop bad cop; there is the good cop bad cop acting outside of the law; there is the good cop bad cop just out of rehab; there is the good cop bad cop burying incriminating evidence; and there is the good cop bad dispensing moral law. The awkwardness is that they are not the same cops throughout. Throw in a psycho-cop-killer, a few snitches of the switchy, youth and killer-dog owning variety, a maverick local reporter and the confusion is complete. Blitz is part domestic police drama, everything seems to happens in and around Paddington Green; part James Bond in the character of the chisel-jawed, hard action-man Brandt; yet filtered through the urban-Brit lens of a Guy Ritchie. Ken Bruen writer, producer, and would-be actor cannot resist a cameo as an Irish vicar, either. At least when Hitchcock did this he was aware of what could and could not be stretched: namely, audience credulity…..
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