Starring: Tim Roth, Eloise Laurence, Cillian Murphy, Rory Kinnear, Zana Marjanovic
Director: Rufus Norris
Running Time: 91 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: July 8th 2013

Broken won Best Film at the British Independent Film Awards and got much praise on its cinema release. However I couldn’t help feeling it’s one of those movies where grittiness and being a bit of a downer is taken for it being ‘real’ and worthy. It’s certainly dramatic and very, very well-acted, but it’s still pretty contrived and looked at objectively, the events are fairly soap opera-ish. [Read more…]