Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.
Dom Hemingway lives and dies by Jude Law's ferociously committed, bravura performance as the explosive, self-destructive title character — easily the film's standout achievement and a career-best turn. The plot, however, is frustratingly episodic and meandering, failing to build satisfying momentum or fully pay off its father-daughter redemption thread. Cinematography is competent and appropriately gritty for the London crime milieu without being visually distinctive. The film has a certain novelty in its gleefully excessive, larger-than-life anti-hero characterisation and darkly comic tone, though the underlying story beats are fairly familiar. The ending deflates rather than delivers, feeling abrupt and unearned given the dramatic groundwork laid.