Line of Duty

"The clock is ticking. The world is watching."

2019 1h 38m EN

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5.9

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★5.9TMDB · 374

ThrillerCrimeAction

Synopsis

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Frank Penny is a disgraced cop looking for a shot at redemption. When the police chief's 11-year-old daughter is abducted, Frank goes rogue to try and save her. But to find the girl, Frank will need the help of Ava Brooks, whose live-streaming news channel is broadcasting Frank's every move.

“The clock is ticking. The world is watching.”

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Cast

Aaron Eckhart
Frank Penny
Courtney Eaton
Ava Brooks
Ben McKenzie
Dean Keller
Giancarlo Esposito
Tom Volk
Jessica Lu
Clover Nestel
Dina Meyer
Ruth Carter
David Shae
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Betzaida Landín
Maya Prinz

Credits

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Director: Steven C. Miller
Writers: Jeremy Drysdale
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America

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ERA

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Released 7 years ago.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Steven C. Miller, shot by Brandon Cox. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Taylor Stewart. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Stan Salfas shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Aaron Eckhart and Courtney Eaton and Ben McKenzie carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The clock is ticking. The world is watching.".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt3541524 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Steven C. Miller directs. Brandon Cox behind the camera. Taylor Stewart scores. Stan Salfas cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United Kingdom, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Released 7 years ago.
2International production across 2 countries: United Kingdom, United States of America.
3Directed by Steven C. Miller, shot by Brandon Cox. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Taylor Stewart. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Stan Salfas shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Aaron Eckhart and Courtney Eaton and Ben McKenzie carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "The clock is ticking. The world is watching.".
8IMDB entry: tt3541524 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 14 themes, including "killing", "murder", "killed", "aggressive".

The technical file

Cinematography: Brandon Cox
Original score: Taylor Stewart
Editing: Stan Salfas
Production design: Niko Vilaivongs
Costume design: Bonnie Stauch
Stunt coordinator: Kevin Waterman
Runtime: 98 min · 1h 38m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $646,389
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Line of Duty (2019)

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SierraKiloBravo2020-07-29
★ 4/10
Click here for a video version of this review: https://youtu.be/W8VRwcfebF8 When hearing about a movie you often hear the phrase “it's so bad it’s good” meaning that even though it's an awful movie, there's something about it that makes you not entirely hate it. This brings me to Line of Duty. If the generic title wasn't a clue as to what kind of movie this is, maybe the official description will help: A disgraced cop finds himself in a race against time to find a kidnap victim whose abductor he accidentally killed. Aaron Eckhart stars in this, and does the best he can with a weak, basic, and run of the mill script. The real problem though is the direction, it's all over the place tonally and has some jarring moments of comedy in what sets out to be a tense race against time type movie. Imagine if every ten minutes during End of Watch Jake Gyllenhaal or Michael Pena stopped and dropped an Arnold Schwarzenegger style corny one liner. Sometimes, if it's done right in a movie, it works. In Line of Duty, it does not work. I was rolling my eyes all the way through this, it's a by the numbers action film, but cumulatively I couldn't help but not hate it. There's so much dumb stuff in this, whether it's the completely needless newsroom and YouTuber scenes, or the newsroom gleefully talking about their “hot exclusive” even though, as the movie reminds you 10,000 times everything was being live-streamed which means anyone could watch it and so the newsroom does not in fact have an “exclusive”. Or how when the newsroom dispatches a news helicopter to cover a house fire - a house fire, by the way, that uses some of the worst CGI fire I've ever seen - there is literally only a pilot in the helicopter. No cameraman, no reporter, just a pilot noodling along minding his own business. A pilot who, when two dudes end up in the back having a fight, with them swapping places hanging over the side, never thinks to land the chopper, or even take it closer to the ground. The movie is full of this kind of stuff. Like I said, I rolled my eyes all the way through this, but something happens in the last five minutes that made me laugh out loud and realise that they so fully commited to it being a B movie that it may have been intentional. It's like they consciously made the decision to crank the cheese up to 11 and ride this movie off a cliff while chugging a beer and giving the world two middle fingers as they crashed in a ball of flame. By all means watch this movie, but make sure you have a giant bowl of popcorn and that your brain has been switched to low power mode.

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