Michael Thompson
Danny Dyer, like Michael Cain, seems to suit every role he plays. Don't read any more if you don't want to know about this film.Basically this movie is not so much action packed. It is just Danny Danny acting the bad guy, which I don't like. I found this movie less than engrossing, but none the less very real.Danny Dyer kidnaps a woman, goes on the run in her car, and she ends up spiking his drink, and she knifes him.She then walks away with Danny Dyer lying on the ground, dead.This movie reveals to me how easy Danny Danny, like Michael Cain, seems to fit every role he takes. But I still don't like him playing the bad guy.
FlashCallahan
Told over one night, a white-knuckle journey into the mind of Frank Norton, a dangerous schizophrenic murderer as he escapes from Broadmoor Hospital and embarks on a murderous rampage across London.But when Frank takes a hostage, the deadly game of cat-and-mouse truly begins......You get what you pay for when you see a movie with Danny Dyer in it, namely Danny Dyer.His surname does resemble some of the movies he has made, and this contribution, is nothing special, it does divert for the running time.Dyer plays Dyer, albeit a strange twisted creature, one who for some reason takes on a strange accent every now and again, and he kidnaps a Nurse, and the plunder through plot holes until the predictable climax.If you like Dyer, you probably will lap this up, if like me, you tolerate him, you will watch the film, think 'why didn't she do this/that/the other' and forget it in an instant.Not as bad as what the critics say, not as good as Dyer fans say it is.
north-bay
Deviation is truly mesmerising viewing, depicting a battle of wits between an on-the-run psychopath and a nurse. The story is impossible to predict, as it twists and turns towards its unexpected climax.Danny Dyer is compelling as the troubled escapee, who wants to start a new life, but circumstances, during the course of the film, do their utmost to thwart him.Anna Walton, as the hostage, imbues her role with intelligence and resolve, hoping to find a crack in her captor's armour.The desolate urban locations were well chosen, adding a bleak impersonal backdrop to the tense human drama.J. K. Amalou directs with poise and assurance, drawing nicely controlled performances from his two leads.This is a great psychological thriller, well worth watching.
thepinkrabbit
I was very very disappointed by the end of this movie. It's totally science fiction. So here it is : the girl who is a nurse put 24 tablets of some benzodiazepine in the whiskey bottle. She says when the guy realizes there is something wrong with him that "he's dying from kidney failure, because she drugs him with 24 tablets which dissolve quickly and are tasteless". this is absolutely rubbish : If she is a nurse, she would have known that 24 pills of any kind of benzodiazepine would absolutely not kill a grown man like him. This is just a medical fact. Of course they don't tell us what kind of benzodiazepine it is. We can imagine it's bromazepam as it's prescribed to fight anxiety. Those tablets don't dissolve quickly ( any tablet on the uk market is full of different expedients mostly to avoid injection use in case of benzodiazepine )and are very bitter. Then she kills the guy with the little "toothbrush razors" right in the heart : if you look at the weapon you know for sure it's technically impossible to pierce through warm winter clothes and insert it completely in the heart. So this movie is really for people having absolutely no knowledge at all in medicine but even then, the fact that we see the girl taking out all the tabs lead us immediately to understand she is going to poison the guy thus destroying the " revelation". In a word awful movie.