Red Riding 1983

 

Red Riding 1983

• Director: Anand Tucker
• Seen by this director: Hilary and Jackie
• Based on the book by David Peace
• Cast: David Morrissey, Shaun Dooley, Peter Mullan, Robert Sheehan, Jim Carter, Michelle Dockery, Mark Addy, Daniel Mays
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• David Morrissey – The Hollow Crown, South Riding, Nowhere Boy, Red Riding 1974 & 1980, Doctor Who, The Other Boleyn Girl, Derailed, Blackpool, Born Romantic, Hilary & Jackie, Our Mutual Friend, Waterland
• Peter Mullan – Sunshine on Leith, The Liability, Tyrannosaur, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I, Red Riding 1974 & 1980, Stone of Destiny, Boy A, Children of Men, Young Adam, The Magdalene Sisters, My Name Is Joe, Trainspotting, Shallow Graves, Riff-Raff
• Shaun Dooley – Doctor Who, Broadchurch, Misfits, The Woman in Black, The Awakening, South Riding, Hustle, Red Riding 1980
• Robert Sheehan – Mortal Engines, Fortitude, Misfits, Red Riding 1974& 1980
• Jim Carter – My Week with Marilyn, Cranford, Creation, Red Riding 1980, The Golden Compass, Downton Abbey, Out of Season, Modigliani, Ella Enchanted, Bright Young Things, Dinotopia, Shakespeare in Love, Keep the Aspidistras Flying, Brassed Off, Richard III, The Madness of King George, The Singing Detective
• Michelle Dockery – The Gentlemen, Downton Abbey, The Hollow Crown, The Turn of the Screw, Cranford, Red Riding 1974
• Mark Addy – Downton Abbey, Doctor Who, Robin Hood, A Knight’s Tale, The Full Monty  
• Daniel Mays – 1917, Fisherman’s Friends, Rogue One, Victor Frankenstein, Doctor Who, Made in Dagenham, Hustle, Red Rising 1974, Atonement, A Good Year, Vera Drake, All or Nothing
• Why? Third film in the trilogy
• Seen:  21 October 2022

             It is now 1983 and the Yorkshire police are still corrupt (I wonder what the Yorkshire police think of this trilogy). It’s the same cast – minus the ones killed off in the first two, although some pop up in flashbacks.

       Again, little girls are going missing and the guilt of Michael (Mays), now serving time for murder in the first film, is brought into doubt.

       So, which of these crooked cops have been killing kids? We’ve already seen that they’ve killed witnesses. But one of them has developed a conscience.

       It’s like The Wire. Excellent production, superior acting. Praised to the skies by one and all. Except me. I find them both…interesting but boring. Maybe I need to see The Wire as well as the Red Riding Trilogy again someday. But for now, this film gets

 3* of 5