Hyena

Name: Hyena
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: May 1, 2015
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 56
Cast: Elisa Lasowski, Gordon Brown, MyAnna Buring, Neil Maskell, Orli Shuka

2015

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Tribeca Film | Release Date: May 1, 2015 | Not Rated

Starring: Elisa Lasowski, Gordon Brown, MyAnna Buring, Neil Maskell, Orli Shuka, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Dormer, Stephen Graham, Tony Pitts

Summary: Michael (Peter Ferdinando) is a ruthless undercover cop targeting London's most violent drug traffickers. He and his team aren't above taking their cut from the criminals they're charged with investigating — but when he's threatened with exposure, he's forced to rapidly shift his loyalties and sell out his allies in order to stay alive.Michael (Peter Ferdinando) is a ruthless undercover cop targeting London's most violent drug traffickers. He and his team aren't above taking their cut from the criminals they're charged with investigating — but when he's threatened with exposure, he's forced to rapidly shift his loyalties and sell out his allies in order to stay alive. [Tribeca Film]… Expand

Director: Gerard Johnson

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 112 min

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Empire Kim Newman

Mar 5, 2015

Writer-director Gerard Johnson and chameleon-like star Ferdinando continue to impress with their strong collaboration here. Read full review

The Playlist Rodrigo Perez

Mar 5, 2015

Seedy, unsettling and nightmarish, director Gerard Johnson crafts a suspenseful and anxious journey despite the destination pointing to obvious points well known. Read full review

John Anderson

Apr 30, 2015

The visuals are kinetic, the pacing frenetic; the violence, or at least its aftermath, doesn’t just border on the excessive, it makes major incursions. But given the criminal milieu at hand, nothing less would have seemed plausible, or equal to the heightened, sordid sensibility Mr. Johnson creates in the film’s opening moments and maintains right up to an ending that is among the more perverse in recent memory. Read full review

Matt Glasby

Mar 5, 2015

Hyena may be grim, but it’s also grimly engrossing in a way that gets under the skin. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Apr 28, 2015

There’s nothing out of order here—the locales are appropriately dingy and atmospheric, the lead character is compellingly rotten, the plot tightens to a vise squeeze in the third act—but every beat that isn’t provided by The The strikes exactly where it’s expected. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Apr 30, 2015

The strongest elements of this film, which adds nothing new to the subgenre, are its atmospheric, smeared-lipstick cinematography and Mr. Ferdinando’s portrayal of an arrogant, double-dealing crook. Read full review

Kenji Fujishima

Apr 27, 2015

The Gerard Johnson film's blanket cynicism is its most shopworn quality of all. Read full review

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Nov 18, 2022

The movie is about the immigrant gangs consisting of Turks and Albanians and drug addicted cops, taking place in England. A so-called protector of the law, in the lead role, who is losing his sense of "ethics" gradually. It is a maze with trap within trap, an event triggering the other, thisThe movie is about the immigrant gangs consisting of Turks and Albanians and drug addicted cops, taking place in England. A so-called protector of the law, in the lead role, who is losing his sense of "ethics" gradually. It is a maze with trap within trap, an event triggering the other, this time even more complex. Being 'Big John' is disappearing in every second; It becomes then blurry who is protecting the law, and even makes you forget the definition of the law, in a pretty dark atmosphere.

Nicholas Winding Refn described the movie as the future of noir genre. Les Arcs owns the prize for the best actor in Edinburgh - also has two nominations for the best British film and Sitges best film.… Expand

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