Filth (2013) (original) (raw)

Scheming Bruce Robertson, a bigoted and corrupt policeman, is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Enlisted to solve a brutal murder and threatened by the aspirations of his colleagues, Bruce sets about ensuring their ruin. As he turns his colleagues against one another by stealing their wives and exposing their secrets, Bruce starts to lose himself in a web of deceit that he can no longer control. Can he keep his grip on reality long enough to disentangle himself from the filth?

Scheming Bruce Robertson, a bigoted and corrupt policeman, is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Enlisted to solve a brutal murder and threatened by the aspirations of his colleagues, Bruce sets about ensuring their ruin. As he turns his colleagues against one another by stealing their wives and exposing their secrets, Bruce starts to lose himself in a web of deceit that he can no longer control. Can he keep his grip on reality long enough to disentangle himself from the filth? (less)

Director: Jon S. Baird
Writers: Irvine Welsh, Jon S. Baird
Starring: James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, Emun Elliott, Joanne Froggatt, Iain De Caestecker
Producer: Ken Marshall

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Review by Brian Orndorf, May 29, 2014

6 / 10

When the source material for a movie emerges from the mind of novelist Irvine Welsh, certain expectations for European hellraising are set. �Filth,� an adaptation of Welsh�s 1998 book, follows the writer�s routine, summoning a carnival of chemical excess and bad behavior that�s tied to past trauma, playing both the impish qualities of troublemaking and its deep-seated shame. After �Trainspotting,� �The Acid House,� and �Ecstasy,� perhaps everything about Welsh�s work has been sufficiently exploited by now. �Filth� proves there�s a little more gas in the tank than originally thought, and while ...read more...

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