Fresh
Channels the world-weary '70s paranoia of 'Taxi Driver' and 'The Conversation' through the imposingly clinical formal approach of process-fixated auteurs like Robert Bresson or Michael Haneke.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
The Veteran
A True Soldier Never Leaves The Battlefield
2011 · 1h 38m · R
Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Matthew Hope
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The Veteran
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Soldier Robert Miller returns home from Afghanistan unable to fit back into society. Living on a violent council estate and finding work in undercover surveillance, he becomes obsessed with taking down a group of local gangsters who are intrinsically tied to a suspected terrorist cell. Taking the situation into his own hands, Robert embarks on a brutal quest for justice, with devastating consequences.
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