Can you trust your work colleagues? Perhaps not when they’re all hardened criminals and there’s a lot of money at stake. A quartet of robbers fresh from a heist hole up in a remote Dartmoor cottage in a grimy crime drama from music-video director Barnaby Roper, turning his hand successfully to feature films here.
The gang’s leader is Ronnie, played by Eddie Marsan, who unlike the others gets a voiceover, too, giving us a window into this veteran geezer’s thought processes. Marsan serves up the world-weary grit demanded by the character with aplomb; he can do this stuff in his sleep. More of a revelation is Sam Claflin, having an enormous amount of fun as a proper wildcard, the kind of loose cannon whose impulsive nature guarantees trouble. Claflin is more usually cast as a gentleman or dashing handsome hero and has played a posh version of this sort of character before, in The Riot Club; but he’s relishing the chance to work a rougher patch here.
