Jeri Jacquin
Coming to DVD from director Mathew Cullen and 20th
Century Fox Home Entertainment is the mystery thriller that leaves the guess to
the very end of LONDON FIELDS.
Samson Young (Billy Bob Thornton) is a writer who tells the
story of Nicola Six (Amber Heard), a woman who seems to have predicted her own
death. She doesn’t let it stop her from weaving a tangled web of men in her
life. Guy Clinch (Theo James) is taken by Nicola and wants to help her with
friends who are in trouble.
There is Keith Talent (Jim Sturgess), a dart playing mouth
of a man who can’t get a break in anything. Taking care of wife Kath (Cara
Delevingne) and their young daughter, he is also taken with Nicola who makes
him promises of money and fame.
Then there is Samson, a man who is trying to put into words
how he feels about the love story he is writing because it ends up with death.
Trying to find a way to make it all work and pick up the pieces of the crushed,
he knows what has to be done but will he have the heart to do it.
Or does he?
Heard as Nicola is a woman who knows what she wants and
doesn’t have a hard time making it clear. Using men to get what she wants means
she’s a better actress than most actresses. Sucking them in and moving on seems
to be her lifestyle until a few men doesn’t walk away so easily.
Sturgess as Talent is insanely insane! I mean that in the
most respected way. He takes this character and drags him through the sewers to
be one of the most low down people ever to be created but then again was he?
Delevingne as his wife Kath seems to understand him and is perfectly okay with
his peccadilloes.
James as Clinch is a man who falls and keeps falling.
Wrapped up in everything that Nicola says and does puts him smack in the middle
of danger or of becoming dangerous. He wants the woman and isn’t about to be
told no – in any form.
Props to Isaacs as Mark Asprey who reminds writers all over
the world to NEVER tell anyone your ideas until you’ve finished your project
and its signed, sealed and delivered. Once again Isaacs lets his bad boy shine.
Other cast include Gemma Chan as Petronella, Jaimie
Alexander as Hope, Lily Cole as Trish Shirt, Emily Kincaid as Enola Gay,
Michael Shaeffer as Tony, Henry Garrett as Dink, Belle Williams as Juniper,
Johnny Depp as Chick Purchase and Jason Isaacs as Mark Asprey.
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London Fields was
written by Martin Amis in 1989 before making its way from script to screen.
Toted as a black comedy as well as a murder mystery, there is also a sense of
never quite knowing who is telling the truth and what is real – even after the
credits role.
The film is full of intrigue and guess work from start to
finish. Then again that’s the idea being a twisted thriller, reel the audience
in, make them have a huge question mark above their heads while they unravel
everything and reconnect the dots only to shoot it all down with an ending that
shocks.
In the end – she already knows what we don’t!
