London Fields

Name: London Fields
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Released: October 26, 2018
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 16
Cast: Alexandra Evans, Amber Heard, Billy Bob Thornton, Cara Delevingne, Gemma Chan

2018

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Paladin | Release Date: October 26, 2018 | R

Starring: Alexandra Evans, Amber Heard, Billy Bob Thornton, Cara Delevingne, Gemma Chan, Henry Garrett, Jaimie Alexander, Jason Isaacs, Jennifer Missoni, Jim Sturgess, Lily Cole, Michael Shaeffer, Theo James

Summary: Clairvoyant femme fatale Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men: one of whom she knows will be her murderer.

Director: Mathew Cullen

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 118 min

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Allan Hunter

Sep 19, 2015

London Fields overflows with interesting ideas but they are frequently buried under lurid fantasy sequences, blunt-edged satire and the sense that it is much more amused by its own wild daring than we are. Read full review

Nikola Grozdanovic

Sep 19, 2015

Buried underneath the glop are interesting notions on reality, creation, and the nature of death. And thanks to its aesthetic, it's at least a very beautiful catastrophe. Read full review

The Guardian Henry Barnes

Sep 19, 2015

Novelistic, rich and awfully silly, London Fields – like Ben Wheatley’s take on High Rise - is a long-awaited adaptation of a popular and gloomily prophetic book, that seems unnecessary. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

Sep 19, 2015

So comprehensively does the film fail to represent the labyrinthian literary wonders of Amis’ book that it scarcely seems worthwhile to detail its universal shortcomings. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Oct 18, 2018

The aggressively awful London Fields is, once again, proof that not every successful novel should become a movie. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Peter Sobczynski

Oct 26, 2018

A boring and garish mess that even fans of the book will find nearly impossible to follow, this is easily the most embarrassing film with which Amis has ever been even vaguely connected. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Oct 25, 2018

London Fields, directed by Matthew Cullen and adapted from Martin Amis’s 1989 novel, is, quite simply, horrendous — a trashy, tortured misfire from beginning to end. Read full review

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ChosenOne

Jul 10, 2019

OK, this movie was more unique than I expected! It is basically the showcase of Amber Heard's heroine. And she made all other gorgeous and sexy femme fatales in all the movies that I've seen before to feel like something 2nd rate.

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Buddah

Oct 28, 2018

The only redeeming quality of this movie is the way the spotlight shines upon the beauty of Amber Heard. I have never seen a movie where a character has captured my eye the way Amber Heard does. The men that surround her in this movie see her this way as well, and some how the directorThe only redeeming quality of this movie is the way the spotlight shines upon the beauty of Amber Heard. I have never seen a movie where a character has captured my eye the way Amber Heard does. The men that surround her in this movie see her this way as well, and some how the director allows us to have their empathy towards her as she fills the screen. She is a modern day siren and we can not resist her charms. Pure beauty has never been depicted this way so well. It is too bad the movie is a train wreck with a good premise. We are given an interesting scenario but it is a path that winds around to nowhere. Maybe the movie tries to be too smart for it's own good. Billy Bob Thornton is wasted in this role as the storyteller and one of the males that is lost in Amber's beauty. This movie is only worth seeing if you wish to see the radiance of it's star. Otherwise you best to save your money.… Expand

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hnestlyonthesly

Mar 2, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This film spent years in production hell (over 20 executive producers are credited on this project), presumably because of Amber Heard's divorce from her allegedly abusive ex-husband Johnny Depp. I saw this after non-consensually watching PotC: Dead Men Tell No Tales for only the second time in my life at the gym this evening. I had a feeling deep in my bones that something was terribly wrong when I saw the actress from Crawl teaming up with Grindelwald, which led me to this retrospective on the 2018 film released directly to streaming, London Fields. Wife actually recommended a book by Martin Amos, the writer of this novel and screenplay. I liked Time's Arrow and so when I found out that he was responsible for what is essentially an erotic thriller starring Billy Bob Thornton and a clairvoyant femme fatale Amber Heard, I was all ears. When I heard that this was the last film that she did with Johnny Depp before their break up due to spousal abuse, I put it on the back burner for a day when I had lost all self-respect, and look where we **** are. Only took two years. All you need to know about this movie is that Billy Bob Thornton says the word "murderee" eight or nine times and tries to pass it off like it's a thing regular humans say. He says it first in the prologue, which, lucky for you, will also be the epilogue verbatim, and the audience is supposed to politely ignore it like a fart at a dinner party. Then he types it in his word doc where a conspicuously red spellcheck squiggle blinks alarmingly underneath. Then, as if daring us to question him, he names the first chapter of his novel, "The Murderee," suddenly no spellcheck to distract us. Once more, in the subject line of an email to his publisher and old flame, he types it again, and in the only bit of realism in this entire story, the publisher takes him not at all seriously after several days of polite silence. There are a lot of these moments where you are left to quietly wonder to yourself if the writer is intentionally written to sound stupid or if it's an unintended consequence of trying to sound deep in voice over. Billy Bob compares the darts game 505--a game that ends up being a lot more prominent than you first expect when you watch Keith Talent tossing a few nice ones at the target in the opening scene, to Texas Holdem, but he's confusing his metaphors with blackjack: "You go over 505 and you bust." It's the sort of word vomit you might not forgive with a single producer or even a handful of producers on a project, but which seems completely understandable after literally dozens of different people have gone over the script. Inexplicably, Cara Delevigne makes a cameo as quiet and ineffectual wife. She has two or three lines, as if she's too bewildered by her own involvement in this movie to speak. The movie flirts with the line between taking itself too seriously and not taking itself seriously enough, especially when it comes to the way that it lays out Amber Heard as eye candy in every possible permutation of fetish wear it can find. Her character, Nicola Six, smokily warns Billy Bob not to write her as a one dimensional character in his crime noir novel, but later, as she's dancing for him in a negligee made of basically tissue paper, she tells him, "You understand me," and he responds, "I know you're beautiful. I know the whole world falls into you. Does whatever you want. Look at me and look at you." It's the kind of word salad that pushes the envelop on realism, feels like Billy Bob actually improvving some lines before having someone like Heard try to jump his bones, before telling her to "be still" and then giving her oral sex on the rooftop of an apartment building in central London. That's probably not the worst sex-adjacent scene in this movie though. Take your pick between Heard pegging the greasy haired dart shark with a big black billy club she's got from her sexy police costume while images from the lesbian porno of a police stop flashes on the screen, and the moment when Billy Bob Thornton discovers a stash of polaroids showing Heard having Eyes Wide Shut sex with Draco Malfoy's dad in latex fetishwear dressed as a devil. Did I not mention Draco Malfoy's dad is in this movie? Well, not exactly. His picture is in a bunch of frames and he's leaving not even passive aggressive, just plain aggressive negative phone calls to the writer who is house swapping with him while his hometown is up in flames. He does show up toward the end in order to read the novel Billy Bob has written about the movie, which he then reads on a press tour during the credits roll for reasons that are unclear. None of this is made up. My favorite is when Keith Talent has just been given assurances from Nicola Six that she'll pay his debts as long as he doesn't "touch" her. (Don't worry, it doesn't make any more sense even with context.) Music starts to play, he lights a cigarette, and begins a snappy dance routine.… Expand

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Mauro_Lanari

Jul 19, 2019

(Mauro Lanari)
A would-be neo-noir that actually fails even as its parody. Nothing else to add.

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Darko019

Oct 11, 2019

The only point in film is Amber Heard in lingerie. Who cares about it can save time and search for those parts on the internet.

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