- January 5, 2025
- Posted by: admin
- Category: TORRENT
49/16
Helen begins a passionate affair with a man who has no idea who her secret identity is. Caught in the crosshairs when her lover falls victim to London’s dangerous underworld, Helen’s employers call in Sam to protect her. Bingo, the owner of the guitar shop where Sam buys his weapons, is played by Rat Scabies, a member of the band The Damned. Appearances on The Graham Norton Show: Cher/Keira Knightley/Michael Fassbender/Josh Brolin/Jalen Ngonda (2024). Fairytale of New York Written by Jem Finer, Shane MacGowan Performed by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl. STAR RATING: ***** Brilliant **** Very Good *** Okay ** Poor * Terrible'Helen Webb' (Keira Knightley) lives with her husband, Wallace (Andrew Buchan), the Secretary of Defense, and their two children. All seems idyllic until her former commanding officer Reed (Sarah Lancashire) re-enters her life and informs her that her secret lover, Jason (Andrew Koji), has been killed along with two others, causing her to resurrect her former life as a secret spy, on a course of revenge. Reed reconnects her with Sam (Ben Whishaw), a hitman and her former trainer, and together they navigate a complex web of political espionage and murder. This spy thriller has lost its appeal over the years, but it still has the potential to work in new and different formats. Black Doves came out of nowhere, with a huge advertising campaign, and has become the latest major chart-topping Netflix production to revive the genre in the modern era. The result is a real mixed bag that holds your attention throughout its pleasantly concise eight episodes, but fails to cover up for the script’s shortcomings. Overall, it’s a fairly standard spy story, with a few fairly standard cloak-and-dagger clichés that anyone familiar with old-school spy antics will recognise and even fondly adopt. The biggest problem is the uneven tone. The script teeters unsteadily between ironic, tongue-in-cheek action comedy and dark, heavy-handed spy thriller that leaves you too distracted to really get it. It makes up for this with some stylish, effective action sequences, though, with Whishaw and Knightley making a convincing pair of mismatched professionals, with strong support from Lancashire as an icy, detached M-type commander. The spy thriller remains one with limitless possibilities, and Black Doves, despite its flaws, is a strong addition to the basic one, with an interesting mystery at its heart, and with some strong performances and action to match. ***