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Tony
UK 2009
produced by Dan McCulloch, Leonard Crooks (executive) for Abbott Vision, Chump Films
directed by Gerard Johnson
starring Peter Ferdinando, Lorenzo Camporese, Ian Groombridge, Ricky Grover, Vicky Murdock, Ian Kilgannon, Lucy Flack, Mark Mooney, George Russo, Kerryann White, Cyrus Desir, Neil Maskell, Frank Boyce, Francis Pope
written by Gerard Johnson, music by Matt Johnson, The The
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Tony (Peter Ferdinando) hasn't got an easy life: He has no friends, has
problems with women, isn't gay, has no money, and though he likes being
unemployed, the job center forces him to accept a job. Ah yeah, and he's a
serial killer, too - but he's rather fond of that aspect of his life, taking out
predominantly gays and drug addicts without even as much as a blink. Eventually, he
becomes a suspect in a case of a disappeared neighbourhood boy, and a cop
(Ian Groombridge) is already searching his appartment, when the boy is
actually found alive before the cop manages to find any of the corpses
hidden all over Tony's appartment ... What
a bore of a serialkiller movie, and its problems are manyfold: First and
foremost, Peter Ferdinando portrays Tony as completely unlikeable, there
is nothing interesting nor even appealing about this guy, he is simply
annoying in whatever he does (since I think this is intentional though,
Ferdinando gives a fine performance doing what was asked from him). His
victims though are pretty much as unlikeable as him, no one you would
actually care about in the least (though you wouldn't wish them dead I
imagine), and even the whole rest of the supporting cast is just a rude
bunch that invokes little in terms of sympathy - and for that reason, the
few suspense scenes the film has to offer are stopped dead in their
tracks, any kind of tension isn't given the slightest chance to build up,
and since the film doesn't even try to tell anything remotely resembling a
coherent story, Tony turns out to be just a piece of uninteresting bullshit.
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