Jack and I loved this roller coaster ride of a crime thriller about an auction house employee, some thugs, and a hypnotherapist, showing us yet another genre at which director Danny Boyle can excel. Boyle (covered in 127 Hours) calls on the talents of baby-faced fellow Scotsman James McAvoy (last blogged in X-Men: First Class), Vincent Cassel (most recently in Black Swan as the mean director), and Rosario Dawson (profiled in Unstoppable). Co-written by frequent Boyle collaborator John Hodge (Oscar-nominated for Trainspotting (1996), wrote Shallow Grave (1994), more) and Joe Ahearne (this is his first screenplay; he wrote and directed a number of TV shows), it keeps you guessing up to and after the end.
Cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (also covered in 127 Hours) gives us shot after shot of gorgeous images, not to mention cool locations and occasional aerial shots of highway cloverleafs at night.
I knew I loved the music, too, as we watched yesterday. A second listen today on youtube (sorry about the ads) confirms it. Rick Smith hasn't composed original music for a movie before this one, though he's been credited with a number of songs on other movies, as Rick, R., and Richard Smith, as well as part of the band Underworld. The few additional songs are listed on imdb.
See it now, see it later, but do be prepared to look away, as I did, during a few gory sequences.
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