Complicity

Starring: Brian Cox, Jonny Lee Miller Director: Gavin Millar Original UK Premiere: 2000 Dvd Release: 19th June, 2000 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Complicity is a novel by Scottish author Iain Banks. It was published in 1994. // Its two main characters are Cameron Colley, a journalist on a Scottish newspaper called The Caledonian, which resembles The Scotsman & a serial murderer whose identity is a mystery. The passages dealing with the journalist are written in the first person & those dealing with the murderer in the second person. The events take place mostly in & around Edinburgh. Colley is a Gonzo journalist with a cocaine habit, living in Edinburgh. He also smokes tobacco & cannabis, drinks copious amounts of alcohol, plays computer games & has adventurous sex with a married woman, Yvonne. He regrets his addictions & misdemeanours & tries half-heartedly to give them up occasionally. He reflects on his awful experience of witnessing the aftermath of the massacre at the Highway of Death in the Gulf War & covers the deployment of HMS Vanguard, Britains first Trident nuclear missile submarine. He thinks he has a scoop when he receives anonymous phone calls about a series of mysterious deaths.

This felt more like an ITV drama than a feature film, but never mind because it was a deep enough plot & engaging enough characters to keep me interested all the way through. The revelations are pretty shocking when tehy eventually come, but the mystery element is too easily guessed, & the switching between past & present was far too underplayed in my view. I think the main problem with this film is the apparent randomness of the murders until eventually the pattern is revealed. There is some kind of technical problem with the sound, I found it very hard to make out what the hell people were saying half the time - its not just the scottish accent but the fact it was muffled or mumbled a lot. Perhaps advisbale to watch with subtitles on. Good in some ways, watchable but, ultimately far too TV-drama-ish.

Brian Denis Cox is a Scottish actor, notable for being the first person to play Hannibal Lecter, a role he took in the Michael Mann film Manhunter. Cox was born in Dundee, Scotland. In 1978, he played King Henry II of England in the acclaimed BBC2 drama serial, The Devils Crown, following which he starred in many other television dramas. One of his first film appearances, in 1971, was as Leon Trotsky in Nicholas & Alexandra. In 1995, he appeared in both Rob Roy & Braveheart. His notable recent films include The Ring, X2, Troy & The Bourne Supremacy. Posters Of Troy

Editors Choice: Troy, Keepin It Real, Complicity, Scorpion Spring, Sharpes Eagle, Sharpes Rifles, Hidden Agenda, In Celebration, View DVDology

Jonny Lee Miller is a British actor. He was the first husband of actress Angelina Jolie. He was born at Kingston-upon-Thames. His grandfather was Bernard Lee, famous for playing the character M in the earlier James Bond films. After a stint in Eastenders, Jonny Lee Miller got his big break in films with Hackers, co-starring Angelina Jolie, whom he married the following year. They divorced four years later. Shortly afterwards, Miller took a leading role in Trainspotting, which brought him real notoriety. The accent he used in the film was so convincing that it led to many people believing he was a Scottish actor. In 1997, he played Billy Prior in the film adaptation of Pat Barker s World War I novel, Regeneration. On television he has appeared in the BBC s modernisation of The Canterbury Tales & as Lord Byron in a television drama about the life of the poet. Posters Of Hackers

Editors Choice: Byron, Mindhunters, Hackers, The Escapist, Plunkett And Macleane, Complicity, View DVDology

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