Luther: The Fallen Sun

Name: Luther: The Fallen Sun
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Released: February 24, 2023
Duration: 129 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Andy Apollo, Andy Serkis, Callum Chiplin, Carl Spencer, Cynthia Erivo

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Netflix | Release Date: February 24, 2023 | R

Starring: Andy Apollo, Andy Serkis, Callum Chiplin, Carl Spencer, Cynthia Erivo, Dan Li, Dermot Crowley, Hattie Morahan, Idris Elba, James Travis, Jess Liaudin, Lauryn Ajufo, Natasha Patel, Nicola Achilleas, Ross Walton, Sonja Tenner, Thomas Coombes, Vincent Regan

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Streams on Netflix beginning March 10, 2023.

Summary: The feature film continuation of the British TV series Luther finds a gruesome serial killer terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther (Idris Elba) sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any meansThe feature film continuation of the British TV series Luther finds a gruesome serial killer terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther (Idris Elba) sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary. [Netflix]… Expand

Director: Jamie Payne

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 129 min

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NME Ali Shutler

Feb 24, 2023

If this is the end of Luther, The Fallen Sun serves as the perfect send-off. It’s surprisingly grounded considering the leap from TV (a Dover ferry is about as exotic as it gets) but constantly ambitious enough to warrant the two-hour runtime. Read full review

John Anderson

Mar 23, 2023

With enough suspense, action and violence for crime-thriller fans and enough Idris Elba for Idris Elba fans, Luther: The Fallen Sun needn’t have a message as well. But here it is: Tell Alexa to get out of your house. And take Siri with her. Read full review

Murtada Elfadl

Mar 7, 2023

The film’s effectiveness hinges on transferring the hallmarks of the series to the big screen, and to that end, Cross and Payne succeed. Read full review

The Independent Clarisse Loughrey

Feb 24, 2023

The budget’s been upped considerably. Hollywood’s own Andy Serkis and Cynthia Erivo have been air-lifted in for support. And it’s fun, in the patently ridiculous way these sorts of zhuzhed-up thrillers tend to be. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 10, 2023

It’s never much more than a marginal vehicle for our always-gets-his-villain copper. And it goes utterly off the rails in the talk-talk-talk/escape-or-die finale. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Mar 9, 2023

Lacking dialogue to deepen the characters or reinforce their motivations, Luther: The Fallen Sun whooshes past in a rush of serial-killer clichés: an underground lair, a torture room, a masked maniac Read full review

Steven Scaife

Feb 24, 2023

The film defaults to the most pedestrian narrative turns imaginable when it’s not just recycling bits from the series. Read full review

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TVJerry

Mar 11, 2023

Idris Elba continues the role he originated in the BBC series as a thoughtful, obsessed and sometimes violent Detective Chief Inspector. Andy Serkis works a grand coif as the villain, a savage sadist whose scheme is truly diabolical. He starts by getting Luther in prison, which means LutherIdris Elba continues the role he originated in the BBC series as a thoughtful, obsessed and sometimes violent Detective Chief Inspector. Andy Serkis works a grand coif as the villain, a savage sadist whose scheme is truly diabolical. He starts by getting Luther in prison, which means Luther must escape, solve the string of horrible murders and avoid being caught himself. Fortunately, thanks to Neil Cross (who created the series and wrote a compelling screenplay) and director Jamie Payne, the situations are involving, the action scenes work well and things get tense. Of course, Elba's dark performance drives the whole thing, which turns out to be a well-crafted and very involving police procedural. NOTE: I never watched the series, so this review is strictly based on the film.… Expand

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alanpotter17

Mar 15, 2023

John Luther é um policial com um passado ou atitudes muito duvidosas, e o filme inicia freneticamente, mostrando um caso em que o policial é chamado mas logo é afastado e preso quando seus podres vem à público.
Assim, como todo bom filme policial, a história gira em torno dos acontecimentosJohn Luther é um policial com um passado ou atitudes muito duvidosas, e o filme inicia freneticamente, mostrando um caso em que o policial é chamado mas logo é afastado e preso quando seus podres vem à público.
Assim, como todo bom filme policial, a história gira em torno dos acontecimentos seguintes, geralmente jovens que somem e são mortos, e seguimos a pista para desvendar quem está por trás de tamanha violência, uma vez que os corpos dos jovens são encontrados mortos e, ainda por cima, o assassino os usa como isca para alguém da família. Não sei se há algo explicado na série, mas se você busca saber o que ronda o passado de Luther para que ele seja afastado do caso, aqui você não irá encontrar. O pior de tudo é que o assassino escolhe a dedo suas vítimas, ao que parece o familiar mediante o qual o assassino faz contato é que é o alvo de todo sofrimento, a premissa do filme usada pelo assassino é justamente fazer sofrer esse familiar mediante os jovens mortos, mas também não sabemos os motivos, ficou tudo muito implícito ou simplesmente o filme não teve a criatividade de criar um. É como pensar em "Jogos mortais" e não saber porque os escolhidos ficaram naquela presos lá.
Tirando esse furo do roteiro, temos um típico filme de detetive, com muitas concessões, fugas facilitadas, reviravoltas simples, o roteiro está muito bem amarrado pelo menos, mas claro com muita boa vontade se consegue aceitar certos desenrolares.
O que me agradou bastante foi a fotografia, muito bonita, não há cenas tremidas, tudo é muito clean, e também a trilha sonora, mantendo o suspense. E as duas horas não cansam, é um filme muito bem ritmado, fiquei até sentindo faltas de mais explicações como dito anteriormente. Mas o ápice no geral é apenas correto, não há reviravoltas, nem grandes sequências. É quase um filme de drama e suspense, e pouca ação, o que o torna claro, mas devido o roteiro superficial, não muito interessante quanto poderia ter sido.
O vilão falando sobre moralismo das escolhas de suas vítimas, sem nem ao menos sabermos quem são, e apenas pondo em cheque a seletividade da violência, pareceu bem ridículo na verdade. Max Weber já fazia essa crítica ao monopólio da violência pelo Estado há mais de 100 anos. Assim o discurso soa meio vazio, já que além da parceira de Luther e dele próprio, sequer conhecemos os demais. Achei interessante o fato de que há uma crítica ao televisionamento do espetáculo, uma vez que o ápice da violência é transmitido via streaming, o que dá corda para se pensar nessa banalização imagética, mas apenas isso, uma pincelada.
Ficou faltando aí adaptar melhor para a linguagem própria do cinema, que em muito difere da TV, pois é um personagem muito bem encarnado por Elba, com muita presença de tela, mas que lhe faltou substância. Ao menos indica uma provável continuação, e torço para que ocorra, pois tem elementos de sobra pra ser melhor caso corrija o que vimos aqui.… Expand

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ProfAmateur

Mar 25, 2023

Story as a whole is good to very good. What grinds my gears is when at least 3 scenes or behaviors of characters make absolutely no sense. The movie is therefore not reliable. Plus there happened things which you don't understand without watching the series.

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Donttalk2

Apr 1, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Okay, how do they do this? "Arrested Development", "Black Mirror" and now "Luther" - why are great series turning into something very different at Netflix? "Luther" used to be "Cracker" on steroids, this is torture porn (with the absence of understandable motive - the backbone of the former series- as hollow punchline). Some great locations, usually full of bodies dangling under the ceiling. Great shots of ice and snow and London. The film shows a lot of love for Luther`s coat- better than nothing, I guess.… Expand

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bambony

Mar 16, 2023

A sequence of set pieces that appear to have been written by a committee of 13yr old boys. Avoid if you are remotely discerning as this is far inferior to the TV show

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emmawee97

Aug 5, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's simply disappointing. And it's not even the WOKE-ness of it. I love Elba as a tortured Holmesian detective and Serkis is great as a psychopathic villain... but the head of the crime unit is black, the martyred officer is black, the traitor officer is white, all the villains accomplices are white. It's just so tiresome. There are literally TWICE as many Asians in England as blacks, and yet we are absolutely 100% ignored! All of these series have blacks as the goodies, whites as the baddies, and Asians are absent. Okie, I guess part of it really is the WOKE-ness of it. But it really isn't all: it's just boring. That's probably the greatest crime. A brilliant Holmesian detective and the story is nothing but a bore, with little to no mystery, and mere generic spectacle. Oh, I'm mistaken, the one Asian was one of the degenerates giddily watching the brutality happen. Guess that's what the BBC thinks of us. Truly a waste of 130-minutes.… Expand

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daniel_

Mar 11, 2023

This was indeed really bad from the beginning till the very end. Only good things: Idris Elba and that it actually ended. It´s such a pity that such a decent show suffers from such a lousy movie.

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