Perrier's Bounty

 Perrier’s Bounty

• Director: Ian Fitzgibbon
• Based on book: no
• Cast: Cillian Murphy, Jodie Whittaker, Michael McElhatton, Don Wycherley, Brendan Coyle, Conleth Hill, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Liam Cunningham, Brendan Gleeson
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Cillian Murphy – Dunkirk, Transcendence, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, The Dark Knight, Sunshine, Batman Begins, Cold Mountain, Girl with Pearl Earring, Intermission, 28 Days Later, Breakfast on Pluto
• Jodie Whittaker – Doctor Who, Broadchurch, Adult Life Skills, Black Sea, Good Vibrations, Attack the Block, Marshland, Cranford, Kick Ass St Trinian’s
• Michael McElhatton – The Fall, Parked, Intermission
• Don Wycherley – Sing Street
• Brendan Coyle – Downton Abbey, The Raven
• Domhnall Gleeson – Star Wars, The Revenant, Brooklyn, Ex Machina, About Time, Harry Potter, Never Let Me Go
• Jim Broadbent – London Spy, The Lady in the Van, Brooklyn, Filth, Cloud Atlas, Harry Potter, Another Year, Young Victoria, Hot Fuzz, Vera Drake, Bright Young Things, Moulin Rouge, Topsy-Turvy, Little Voice, Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Richard III, Life Is Sweet, Black Adder
• Liam Cunningham - Doctor Who, Merlin, Good Vibrations, Camelot, Hunger, Breakfast on Pluto, Jude
• Brendan Gleeson – Alone in Berlin, Suffragette, Edge of Tomorrow, Harry Potter, In Bruges, Kingdom of Heaven, Cold Mountain, 28 Days Later, AI, My Life So Far, The Butcher Boy, Michael Collins, Breakfast on Pluto
• Why? The cast
• Seen: 23 June 2022      

       Gangster films are not usually my first choice but with this cast it’s promising.

       Michael (Murphy) owes a lot of money to Perrier (B Gleeson). Time is running out before bones start getting broken. While he desperately tries to hustle up the money his father (Broadbent) arrives after a long estrangement to tell him that he’s dying. Michael also catches the boyfriend of his friend and neighbour Brenda (Whittaker) with another woman. And he’s offered a job doing a heist with a loan shark (Cunningham).

       It’s not quite as good as In Bruges but it has the same quirky and melancholy humour. The cast lives up to expectations. 

4* of 5