Brighton Rock Reviews

Helen Mirren and John Hurt clearly need to stop saying 'yes' to any old shit that may or may not save the British film industry.

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Rowan Joffe is an extremely talented artist and one of the jewels in the crown of British cinema at present, but this film is pointless and uninspiring, and far from his best work.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It is about helplessness and evil, but isn't merciless enough.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

The new film version of Graham Greene's 1938 novel "Brighton Rock" isn't very good, but if you haven't yet seen the 1947 film version of Greene's book, do so! It's the right time to do so.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

This new version of Graham Green's classic novel - updated to 1964 - feels peculiarly pointless.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Staggeringly forgettable.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

A push-me-pull-you film straining in all sorts of different directions and getting nowhere.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

[Joffe] isn't nearly as strong a director as he is a writer and he's unable to realize such an intricate story in a way that's even remotely satisfying.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.5/10

Please read the book instead.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The awfulness ranges from terrible judgement calls, such as the deranged soundtrack, cardboard sets and hilariously OTT grimness, to more surreal errors, like star Sam Riley using the voice of the dog off That's Life who could bark the word "sausages".

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

As Brighton Rock attempts to zero in on Rose and Pinkie's dangerous relationship, it loses momentum.

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Gutting what made Graham Greene's crime-lit classic unique, this pointless re-setting of the noirish fable fails to bring its puerile antihero to compelling life.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

Joffe has adapted an ambitious work but his film doesn't capture the depth and longing in Greene's story.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The film looks wonderful with moody lighting, haunting cinematography and affecting music score, but the characters are jumbled and confusing in Rowan Joffe's directing debut

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Another by-the-numbers UK gangster flick that doesn't get enough wrong to hate or enough right to like.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A forgettable film noir.

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Brighton Rock is frustrating in that it allows glimpses into a world that it refuses to fully embrace.

Full Review | Original Score: C

Screams "student film" with practically every frame.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Attempt at hard-boiled film noir comes off only half-baked

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

The film as a whole often feels like an exercise in style over substance, especially as it becomes clear just how many times we've seen these kinds of characters in this kind of story before.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

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