If you can’t break the law, break the system.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell, Carmen Ejogo, Lynda Gravatt, Amanda Warren Amanda Warren |
| Director |
Dan Gilroy |
| Screenplay | Dan Gilroy |
| Music | James Newton Howard |
| Cinematography | Robert Elswit |
| Editing | John Gilroy |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2017 |
| Produced by | Bron Studios, Cross Creek Pictures, Escape Artists, Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ, LStar Capital, MACRO, Topic Studios |
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| Genre | Drana |
| Language | Moderate impact, fairly frequent crude language use that is uttered to demean as well as in a social context. |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Low impact, infrequent violence without blood-letting is noted but does not warrant consumer advice. |
| Prejudice | Low impact, thematic social and class related prejudice is sustained throughout the film, with no clear disapproval there of. |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | |
| These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines. | |
| PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned | Rated PG-13 for language and some violence |
| Runtime | 122 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
| Music (Scary/Tense) |
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| Suggested age limit 13 + |
Positive messages |
Positive role models |
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Drinking, drugs, smoking |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Ann Hornaday  Quirky revolutionary's brave new world. | 10 |  |
| 24.com Ilan Preskovsky Writer/ director Dan Gilroy previously gave us the quite terrific and decidedly uncompromising Nightcrawler, so it's disappointing to see so little of that film's gutsiness transfer over to a film that resolutely refuses to live up to its significant potential, let alone to its wonderfully realised lead character. | 10 | |
| ScreenIt Jim Judy In the end, you’ll admire the veteran actor for his work here, but you’ll wish the rest of the film surrounding him was as good and interesting as he and his character are. | 9 | |
| Metacritic.com 41 critics | 12 |  |
| Rottentomatoes critics 142 critics | 12 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Intriguing yet heavy-handed, Roman J. Israel, Esq. makes the most of -- but never quite lives up to -- Denzel Washington’s magnetic performance in the title role. | 10 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 12 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Jeffrey M. Anderson Strong performances, but inconsistent and unsatisfying. | 5 |  |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 49 users | 12 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 3764 users | 13 | |
| IMDB 12672 Netizens | 13 | |
| The Movie DB Community | 12 | |
Average .. 54% | 11 | |