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Director:
Julian Gilbey
Writer:
Julian Gilbey (writer)
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Release Date:
11 September 2009 (UK) more
Plot:
A relentlessly gritty action film, Reckoning Day takes its inspiration from modern day low-budget classics such as Evil Dead (Sam Raimi), Bad Taste (Peter Jackson) and El Mariachi (Robert Rodriguez), and gives it a uniquely British spin. | add synopsis
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Julian Gilbey exclusive interview: British director talks ‘Reckoning Day’
 (From t5m.com. 14 September 2009, 8:39 AM, PDT)
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Cast

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Roman Karpynec ... Ed
Saul Linklater ... Charles Toll
Dominic Alan-Smith ... Stewart Touraine
Kevin Farran ... James Bennet
Tara Keatley ... Elle
James Hutchins ... Brian
Will Gilbey ... Ross
Julian Gilbey ... Richard Iman
Nik Weston ... Nik van den Meers
Guy Corbishley ... Jim
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rob Bloomfield ... Robin
Eddie Briscoe ... George Wyman
Nick Crocker ... Red Kite (Sniper)
Nick Fletcher ... Gunman
Alex Gilbert ... The Apache
Kristina Jasinski ... Sarah
Matt Kierle ... Jon Stewart
Serena Leckie ... Car Thief Victim #2
Thomas Longuessere ... Saul Castillon
Rowan Merewood ... The Silent One
Tand Millar ... Barman
Helen Mitford ... Car Accident Girl
Barney Poole ... Jason (Axeman)
Zoë Springbett ... Car Thief Victim #1
Danny Tanfield ... Fat Virgin
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Runtime:
UK:105 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
Netherlands:16
Company:
Unseen Force Productions more

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Violence is no longer important...?, 2 September 2003
1/10
Author: harry-187 from Faro, Sv

The one thing that worries me most about this film; is the fact that the writer/director (Julian Gilbey) has at no point really researched any part of what he is actually trying to say. The films narrative is very, very loosely held together by the most silly and gratuitious violence - in particular, gun violence by very young British kids. The film is in no way offensive, but you get the impression (again, mostly by the use of the very young actors) that some kind of disturbed fantasy is really being played out; as opposed to the idea of just even producing some form of simple filmic entertainment. All the acting is directed with glazed and expressionless close-ups. The most bizarre violent scene happens near the start of the film where an actor with what appears to be an actual disability is murdered by repeated blows to the head with a batton. The reason I am writing this review (I don't normally review this kind of film) is that it disturbs me that others will watch it and think that the filmmaker's are in someway doing something right with modern-day cinema violence. In actual reality, they have nothing to say nor are truly interested in the medium as narrative and artistic-force. Films such as: 'Straw Dogs', 'A Short film About Killing', 'Bonnie and Clyde', 'Bully' and even Gaspar Noe's latest; all explore the violent themes 'Reckoning Day' has tried to do but severely failed. Reckoning Day's only surviving statement is that modern day film violence is both meaningless and unimportant. 1/10

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