Parallel worlds collide in Critical Incident as a capable young police officer is investigated after a tragic accident.
Take it as a compliment when I say that I was not familiar with the work of those headlining this lit fuse Australian drama. Neither creator Sarah Bassiuoni nor leads Akshay Khanna and Zoe Boe have a slew of prominent credits, and that contributes to the contemporary kick of this policing thriller set in Sydney’s western suburbs.
Bassiuoni sharply captures the fractious divide between police and young people, beginning with a house party Dalia attends that veers into violence when Zil and his fellow officers try to wind it up. The sequence is impressively staged and assembled by lead director Neil Sharma, but it also contains a key concept: the roles played by those involved overwhelm individual hopes. Teens hate the cops for harassing them, cops have seen enough to suspect teens.
The script, written by Affleck and Chuck Maclean, has some droll bits: as the thieves prep to rob the Boston mayor’s election victory party, Rory has to be reminded not to take notes. The duo gets a third wheel once the robbery goes awry, with Rory insisting they kidnap his therapist, Dr Donna Rivera , to help them. She offers some ironic therapeutic conversation as they flee the corrupt mayor, the cops and a vengeful underworld boss.
The supporting cast has a surplus of overly qualified but underused actors, including Alfred Molina, Toby Jones and Ving Rhames. The surprise is that director Doug Liman, fresh from the no-holds-barredreboot, can’t generate any excitement aside from a pair of tidy car chases. The bond that develops between Rory and Cobby is orderly despite the chaos around them. There’s a difference between understated and anaemic.
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