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Critics Consensus: The unsettling Imperium boasts troublingly timely themes and a talented cast led by Daniel Radcliffe as an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a ring of white supremacists.
Critic Consensus: The unsettling Imperium boasts troublingly timely themes and a talented cast led by Daniel Radcliffe as an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a ring of white supremacists.
All Critics (68) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (57) | Rotten (11) | DVD (1)
It seems unnervingly accurate for anxious times.
As the baddies get nicer - or at least quieter - the plot slackens and Ragussis plods his way through a transparent three-act structure towards a less-than-thrilling denouement.
In the end, Imperium is fairly gripping entertainment that overcomes its faults. It brings nothing new to the table. But chalk up another unlikely win for Radcliffe.
Solid and watchable, and Radcliffe is genuinely ace.
More entertaining than it ought to be ...
Pulpy but effective.
A rather generic undercover thriller, Imperium still works with an engaging story set within an ugly subculture in American life that has become resurgent in recent years.
Imperium mostly stays its course. As an exploration of hate in America, it is both wide-ranging and scarily believable, and as a depiction of grungy, ground-level undercover endeavors, it generally feels like the real deal.
Ragussis delivers a solid little thriller worthy of the cast who agreed to participate in it.
I'm a great admirer of Daniel Radcliffe's valiant attempts to put Harry Potter behind him, but he is disastrously miscast in Imperium.
'Imperium' is a film that, if not for Daniel Radcliffe, would have quickly been forgotten and beyond that, there's nothing worth mentioning. [Full review in Spanish]
The film shows how a dirty bomb attempt always has its origin in a speech of a charismatic leader who lives in an unpolluted house and has an absolutely integrated life, and that's where it has its strength. [Full review in Spanish]
Daniel Radcliffe surprises with his intense performance as an FBI agent gone undercover to infiltrate a white supremacist group. The story staggers at times, but this is a timely topic given the rise of these terror groups. Recommended.
Super Reviewer
After Kill Your Darlings, What If and Horns, Daniel Radcliffe continues to impress in his post-Harry Potter career, with a nuanced, layered turn as an undercover FBI operative tasked to infiltrate a neo-Nazi group. The film itself is slightly less than the sum of its lead and co-lead's (a reliably brilliant Toni Collette) fine work. But there are some wonderfully tense moments, and a genuinely superb and unexpectedly simple ending.
With strong performances by Collette and Radcliffe (even if Radcliffe is uneven at times), "Imperium" is a well paced and nuanced thriller set in the milieu of white separatist domestic terrorism. The tale is utterly chilling and well worth watching.
Standard thriller with some curiosities to enliven the proceedings: Radcliffe, an Englishman plays a Yankee, and does okay at it, while Collette, his co-star and a Aussie, plays one as well. Once dithering past the question of why was that casting decision made is practically the very nearly usual plotline about undercover police work. Ride this one for the star power alone, if that's your option.
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