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The Rise
2013 1h 46m
Thriller
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Drama
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Crime
6.5
60%
63%
67%
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A young man recently released from prison recruits his three best friends to rob the local drug kingpin who is responsible for his incarceration. Can he get revenge and win back his fed-up girlfriend?
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Directed By
Rowan Athale
Written By
Rowan Athale
Studio
Mischief Films
Cast of The Rise
Luke Treadaway
Harvey
Timothy Spall
D I West
Matthew Lewis
Dodd
Iwan Rheon
Dempsey
Neil Maskell
Steven Roper
Vanessa Kirby
Nicola
Gerard Kearns
Charlie
Lewis Rainer
PC Nixon
Brad Moore
Sgt Kendon
Gary Cargill
Scouse
Paul Clayton
Albert
The Rise Reviews
New York Times
Miriam Bale
To borrow from a term for the gritty, working-class British dramas that this film also nods to, it's a kitchen-sink caper.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
It creates two admirably entertaining storytelling strands - one a friendship saga, the other a robbery caper - yet can't merge the two successfully.
Film.com
Laremy Legel
A British heist movie that's well deserving of an American audience.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The shallow, derivative and contrived British heist thriller "Wasteland" lives down to its unfortunate name.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
The constant spinning of wheels drains the piece of its energy until a final act gets so convoluted that the whole thing falls apart.
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
An inexperienced cast and crew try to rush this atmospheric heist flick and the result is a visually striking film noir that runs out of gas.
The Dissolve
Scott Tobias
Wasteland reveals itself as little more than a bloodless plot engine, but it purrs and hums under the ultra-slick chassis.
Slant Magazine
Tina Hassannia
At heart a heist movie, snappy and dry in its humor, clever in its elaborate robbery scheme, and somewhat bloated and unspooled in its storytelling.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
This British heist picture is familiar but energetic genre filmmaking, more interesting in its particulars than in its overall conception.
Village Voice
Chuck Wilson
Athale has a flair for guy-pal banter; here, the talk is funny and profane, silly and profound, often in the same breath.
Variety
Andrew Barker
An overlong Northern British heist caper with a wildly uneven tone and a needlessly scrambled narrative, but it suggests a higher intelligence beneath, waiting to flower down the road.
Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
An engaging, intelligent, character-driven addition to the well-pillaged heist genre.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
A derivative amalgamation of heist genre classics, all the while bearing an excessively smug grin.
Newcity
Ray Pride
We're decades past the Kitchen Sink school, this kitchen's sunk.
Tribune News Service
Roger Moore
Botched by an ending that is too concerned with showing us how clever the writer-director thinks he is.
Film Journal International
Rex Roberts
It's all good for having a laugh, for Wasteland, despite its ponderous title, gives us a likeable bunch of rascals we can root for, increasingly rare in the genre...
The Playlist
Kevin Jagernauth
Lethargic and not particularly invigorating or fresh, you can skip Wasteland and wait for the next Brit crime flick that will be following before long.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Rowan Athale's debut feature is a British crime drama that wears its amateurishness on its sleeve.
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