SummaryPinkie is a cunning charmer trying to make his mark on the vicious gangland of Brighton. When Rose, a young waitress, stumbles on evidence that links Pinkie and his gang to a revenge killing, he draws her into a conned romance to keep the loose end tied up. When Rose’s world-weary boss becomes suspicious of the enigmatic young man hanging around ... Read More
Directed By:Rowan Joffe
Written By:Rowan Joffe, Graham Greene
Brighton Rock
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Aug 20, 2011
100
Control's Sam Riley steps into a role made unforgettable by a young Richard Attenborough in the 1947 original and makes it his own, slipping into the character like a second skin.
Aug 26, 2011
75
Joffe for the most part amps up the melodrama without tearing Greene's complex weave, but everything unravels toward the end with some staggeringly bad staging. It's as if the film itself had been mugged.
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Jul 20, 2021
6
This is a handsome but rather pointless remake of a 1948 film, which was based on Graham Greene's first novel, a pulp fiction thriller. The year is moved up to 1964, so it can coincide with the notorious mods vs. rockers street brawls that occurred then. Riley and Riseborough are good, and Helen Mirren is better. The sets are lavishly put together and nicely photographed. The story focuses on a rising young gangster and his relationship with a young waitress, whom he marries to keep her from revealing something she knows. Mirren plays the ex-girlfriend of a murdered man looking to even the score and, maybe, to protect the young lady. it is well-made but nothing out of the ordinary.
Oct 9, 2011
5
Couldn't get into this film at all. I usually love" period pieces" which show localised social entropy, especially Brit-related. Helen Mirren was brilliant as usual - but as for the rest of it - very "meh"!
Aug 25, 2011
65
Where Joffe purposely departs from "Brighton Rock" deprives his movie of the book's most revelatory element: Faith. Gorgeous, ambitious and daring as it often is, Brighton Rock has no soul.
Aug 28, 2011
50
This Brighton Rock doesn't live up to the greatness of the novel (or even, really, the very-goodness of the 1947 movie), but it doesn't betray Greene's book either, which may be all a reasonable reader and filmgoer could ask.
Aug 25, 2011
50
There's a lovely moment with Mirren and John Hurt that helps send Brighton Rock toward its final note of tenderness. With so much style to burn, Joffe handles the tinge of Greene-ian ambivalence just right.
Aug 23, 2011
50
The leads are compelling and the chase and fight scenes - scored to a propulsive bass-drum beat - are kinetic, but as Brighton Rock attempts to zero in on Rose and Pinkie's dangerous relationship, it loses momentum.
Aug 22, 2011
38
Brighton Rock never brings its baby-faced hood antihero, the scarfaced Pinkie Brown (Sam Riley, pouting and hunched in the late-DiCaprio manner), into a semblance of human plausibility.
Sep 12, 2011
3
There is something off about Brighton Rock. The atmosphere and mood surrounding the action does not match what is going on. Based on a Graham Greene novel, Brighton Rock follows a low level gangsterâ
Production Company:
- StudioCanal
- BBC Film
- UK Film Council
- Kudos Film and Television
- UK Film Council Development Fund
- Film Council Premiere Fund
- Shine Pictures
Release Date:Aug 26, 2011
Duration:1 h 51 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Love. Murder. Revenge.
Awards
British Independent Film Awards
• 4 Nominations
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Evening Standard British Film Awards
• 1 Nomination
