"London Fields"

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Well movie lovers and readers. This is a pretty special post for me. I started the original MoVTie Critic blog at blogger.com a year and a half ago and this will be my 200th post to that blog (not on the Facebook page for those reading there). In honor of that, I've decided to do a post on an interesting film I had watched awhile ago that I haven't gotten to around talking about. It's about a writer, two young men and woman who's destiny is sealed yet she chooses not to change her fate and live life on dangerous side. A film in which is one of the reasons I started this blog that you may have missed hearing about but will get to hear about here.

Samson Young (Billy Bob Thornton) a once talented writer who has lost his touch has arrived in London trading places with a fellow writer (one of more success) in an effort to find inspiration for his next novel. There he meets three people that will change his life. Guy Clinch (Theo James) a foul-mouthed dart player hoping to make it big in an upcoming tournament that will earn him fame, Keith Talent (Jim Strurgess) a wealthy business man who's marriage is has no life and a hard to manage child that drives him to the bar scene where all three meet Nicola Six (Amber Heard), a femme fatale with intelligence to match that captures all three men's attention in the hopes of being in her favor.

Wanting to know her story, Samson learns that Nicola has a special gift in which she can predict the future in her dreams. She has seen the death of a friend, the death of her family and finally, her own that is due to come on her upcoming birthday in days time. Even knowing she will be murdered by someone she knows, she carries on playing on the hearts of these men, driving them to cheat on their spouses only to pull out the rug from under them and show them what she truly is. With the motives plenty and the suspects many, the truth of the identity of who will kill Nicola on the dark London streets will only come to light in the final chapter of this story leaving all who witness watching in silence.

Dramatically played out, yet somewhat predictable. While the cast did well in their respective roles, the story of a woman who can see her own death coming and does just about anything she can to give those around her motive to kill her seems suicidal. It seemed more of an excuse to watch a woman behave badly and toy with men. Yet it did have its charm with how it played out as well as the contrast in scenes for each character establishing their different lives and how they go from high to low dramatically as the story plays out. Overall while the end becomes clear before the finale scene, it goes away with three G.M.Stars for the broken hearts Nicola left behind.

⭐⭐⭐
Green Mountain Road

 "London Fields" is available at Redbox and where movies are sold/streamed.

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