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Hyena
2015 1h 52m Not Rated
Drama
,
Crime
,
Thriller
6.2
78%
54%
56%
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Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?
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Directed By
Gerard Johnson
Written By
Gerard Johnson
Studio
Film4 Productions
,
Number 9 Films
Cast of Hyena
Peter Ferdinando
Michael
Stephen Graham
David Knight
Neil Maskell
Martin
Elisa Lasowski
Ariana
MyAnna Buring
Lisa
Richard Dormer
Nick Taylor
Tony Pitts
Keith
Thomas Craig
Harrison
Gordon Brown
Chris
Orli Shuka
Nikolla Kabashi
Gjevat Kelmendi
Rezar Kabashi
Lorenzo Camporese
John Noonan
Shaban Arifi
Spartak
Mem Ferda
Akif Dikman
Juliet Oldfield
Tina
Eva Dagoo
Brunette
Hyena Reviews
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Johnson aspires to make Hyena into the stuff of classical tragedy, yet he telegraphs Michael's inward transformation way too soon.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
While the movie keeps tightening the noose around Logan's neck, any interest in whether he'll manage to escape being arrested or killed is largely academic.
RogerEbert.com
Peter Sobczynski
I suspect that anyone who actually makes it to the bitter end will be enraged by what it does and does not contain.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
At its most palatable the film recalls "The Long Good Friday"; at its harshest, it's a grotty cousin to "The Bad Lieutenant." There's enough filmmaking intelligence to guide "Hyena" through its worst excesses, however.
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
It's a film about the lawless and unruly, but it could stand to step outside the lines a bit.
Slant Magazine
Kenji Fujishima
The Gerard Johnson film's blanket cynicism is its most shopworn quality of all.
Grantland
Kevin Lincoln
By the end, as the camera lingers on Peter Ferdinando's phlegmy, leaking face, Hyena has done something uncommon: It has frightened you.
Village Voice
Nick Schager
Hyena's convoluted tale is given a fresh coat of grime by Johnson's direction, which favors handheld cinematography -- often tracking its protagonists from behind -- that gives the action a pseudo-vrit ruggedness.
Los Angeles Times
Martin Tsai
"Hyena" feels like a throwback to the tough-as-nails British gangster flicks of the 1970s.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
The kind of gory British policier from which you come away with the queasy feeling that the world is essentially a butcher shop ruled by greed, murder, cruelty and lust.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
Mr. Johnson isn't out just for blood, or sociology, but the clever hybrid he creates is wholly entertaining.
Village Voice
Aaron Hillis
As stylish, scorched-earth entertainment, it'll get you in its teeth.
Hollywood Reporter
Deborah Young
Trying to hybridize thick-ear genre material with more artistically ambitious fare, the results are too leaden for the Jason Statham crowd but insufficiently distinctive to find a more rarefied niche.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Johnson's filmmaking, however, takes no such short cuts, with sound, image and editing colluding to keep Hyena in a perpetual state of agitated panic. Technique often excitingly thwarts our genre expectations.
Consequence
Don R. Lewis
Moral platitudes aside, Hyena is an interesting and frequently intense look at a bunch of seedy guys doing seedy things until real-life consequences show up to bite them in the arse.
Film Journal International
Doris Toumarkine
Beautifully shot, feverishly edited and also benefiting from the right score and authentic locations, Hyena is that kind of ugly film that refuses to let you turn away.
Under the Radar
Zach Hollwedel
[Hyena] isn't afraid to get its hands dirty, and neither are any of its characters.
JoBlo's Movie Network
Chris Bumbray
A pretty sensational and tough British crime drama. A real gem, and visually stunning to boot.
NME (New Musical Express)
Nick Levine
This nasty horror sucks you into a grisly world of duplicitous cops and brutish criminals prepared to butcher anyone who gets in their way.
The Playlist
Rodrigo Perez
"Hyena" may not be wholly original, but its cancerous tenor positions many of its various talents as ones to watch.
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