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  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 52 m
  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 52 m

Summary Michael (Peter Ferdinando) is a ruthless undercover cop targeting London's most violent drug traffickers. He and his team aren't above taking their cut from the criminals they're charged with investigating — but when he's threatened with exposure, he's forced to rapidly shift his loyalties and sell out his allies in order to stay alive. ...

Directed By: Gerard Johnson

Written By: Gerard Johnson

  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 52 m
  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Tribeca Films
  • 1 h 52 m

Hyena

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
56
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
6.2
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Summary Michael (Peter Ferdinando) is a ruthless undercover cop targeting London's most violent drug traffickers. He and his team aren't above taking their cut from the criminals they're charged with investigating — but when he's threatened with exposure, he's forced to rapidly shift his loyalties and sell out his allies in order to stay alive. ...

Directed By: Gerard Johnson

Written By: Gerard Johnson

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
56
41% Positive
7 Reviews
47% Mixed
8 Reviews
12% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
56
41% Positive
7 Reviews
47% Mixed
8 Reviews
12% Negative
2 Reviews

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80
Mar 5, 2015
Hyena is startling, claustrophobic and penetrating in its analysis of the blurred lines involved in doing good.
By Trevor Johnston FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 30, 2015
Writer-director Gerard Johnson resists all impulses to please the crowd. The graphic sex and violence never feel gratuitous, and there's something interesting in the way he deliberately denies his characters and the viewers any reprieve.
By Martin Tsai FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 28, 2015
The film's convoluted moral trajectory to hell may be as unoriginal as quoting Taxi Driver, and the pervasive violent menace can be needlessly punishing (including a drugged sexual assault), but as stylish, scorched-earth entertainment, it'll get you in its teeth.
By Aaron Hillis FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 28, 2015
There’s nothing out of order here—the locales are appropriately dingy and atmospheric, the lead character is compellingly rotten, the plot tightens to a vise squeeze in the third act—but every beat that isn’t provided by The The strikes exactly where it’s expected.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 5, 2015
Gerard Johnson's sophomore feature might look on the outset like the type of London crime thriller usually populated by Jason Statham, but it's more emotionally complex than its outset gives it credit for.
By Ed Frankl FULL REVIEW
40
Apr 28, 2015
When in doubt, the director cranks up the assaultively reverberant score from po-faced '80s rockers The The (aka Matt Johnson, the director's brother), which at least provides intermittent pep to this increasingly torpid wallow in the moral mud.
By Neil Young FULL REVIEW
38
Apr 27, 2015
The Gerard Johnson film's blanket cynicism is its most shopworn quality of all.
By Kenji Fujishima FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
6.2
50% Positive
3 Ratings
33% Mixed
2 Ratings
17% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
6.2
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33% Mixed
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17% Negative
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Production Company Film4, Number 9 Films
Release Date May 1, 2015
Duration 1 h 52 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline There's 33,000 in his gang. His gang is the police.
Website https://hyena.officialwebsite.art/
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Awards

Les Arcs European Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Festival International du film Policier de Beaune
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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