Deviation (2012)

Best movie of this year hands down!

People are voting emotionally.

As Good As It Gets

A different way of telling a story

Anna Walton stars as nurse Amber. She is introduced while walking and talking on a cell phone. The one sided conversation is annoying. When she is abducted by psycho killer Frank Norton (Danny Dyer) I was hoping for her early demise. Such was not the case. The movie consists mostly of these two individuals in a car playing mind games with each other. Everyone who tries to help Amber gets killed, almost to the point of being comical. The ending has a nice twist (pay attention during the film), but it is debatable if it was worth dragging through the entire film. Good acting. Might work as a rental if you like abduction films.F-bomb, no sex, or nudity.

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.

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.

Just watched this - I was glad to see Danny in a more serious role than his usual cheeky 'gangster' parts and he acts very well in this film. He does pull off a great performance.There are some truly scary moments and I can imagine the cold reality of being in Anna's shoes as she struggles to reason and escape from her kidnapper.It's not until the very end of the film that you work out Anna's game in a great twist.The most terrifying scene takes place in a cupboard, I won't say anymore, but it will give me nightmares for sure !Compelling stuff. Highly recommended.