Directed by John Hillcoat (Lawless; The Road; The Proposition) and starring Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford; Good Will Hunting; Interstellar; Gone Baby Gone; Ain't Them Bodies Saints), Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave; Children of Men; American Gangster; The Martian), Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker; Million Dollar Baby; Captain America: The Winter Soldier), Woody Harrelson (The People vs. Larry Flynt; No Country for Old Men; Now You See Me), Kate Winslet (Titanic; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Insurgent; Revolutionary Road) and Aaron Paul (Exodus: Gods and Kings; Need for Speed; Retribution).

Thriller, 116 mins, 16+, in English.

Set in Atlanta, Georgia, this dark police thriller follows a group of corrupt police officers who are in the pockets of the Russian mafia.

When rookie cop Chris Allen (Casey Affleck) is assigned to the precinct in a rough area of town, the group is pressurised into one last heist, one for which Chris Allen is about to be sacrificed. Kate winslet is superb as the Russian crime boss Irina Vlaslov, who had an affair with Michael Atwood (Chiwetel Ejiofor), the link to the corrupt officers led by Marcus Belmont (Anthony Mackie) and Gabe Welch (Aaron Paul).

Meanwhile, Jeffrey Allen (Woody Harrelson), Chris Allen's uncle, is trying to solve individual crimes and eventually works out that various heists are linked and it may be time that an even bigger crime is going down.

A pulsating thriller which rolls along at a high tempo throughout, with much blood n guts for even the strongest in the audience to become even a bit squeamish (feature the ankle bracelet scene). Sometimes, though, one may lose track for a short while due to many characters and the low lighting.