Working with the meagre clues she's able to provide, Joe throws his skill and intuition towards ensuring her safety, but as the severity of the crime comes to light, Joe's own psychological state begins to fray and he is forced to reconcile with demons of his own. However, when he receives a cryptic call from a woman ( Riley Keough) who seems to be trying to call her child, but is in fact discreetly reporting her own abduction, he puts all his experience to the task. Nine Stories Productions, Endeavor Content (Distributor: Netflix). He goes through the typical ups and downs of the job, from responding to emergencies like armed robberies and calls for the fire department to more mundane and time-wasting requests that wear his patience thin. The Guilty is a film directed by Antoine Fuqua with Jake Gyllenhaal, Adrian Martinez. 1 on Netflix.Police officer Joe Bayler ( Jake Gyllenhaal) has been demoted to answering 911 emergency calls, but finds the tedious task draining. “The Guilty” premieres in select US theaters on Sept. It’s really hard to pull off a movie set in a single location and keep audiences engaged.
Thanks to that, “The Guilty” manages to take Joe – and the audience sharing this confined space with him – on a pretty frenetic ride into the darkness, without ever venturing out into the light of day. Review: Netflix’s ‘The Guilty’ is a riveting remake in single location of 911 dispatch. A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman. Still, such quibbles don’t diminish the intensity of the earlier sequences or Gyllenhaal’s performance. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Riley Keough, Peter Sarsgaard, Christina Vidal. The Guilty is easily one of the best thrillers you havent seen - and it all takes place in a single room. The movie doesn’t finish as well as it might have, particularly in terms of fleshing out Joe’s story, and it could have been shorter – akin to a “Black Mirror” episode – without losing much. Born on December 19, 1980, Gyllenhaal is the son of director Stephen. But sadly, he is ignored when the awards season comes forward. Gyllenhaal is one of the most versatile actors of this generation and has given many award-worthy performances. The irony is that Netflix intends to give the movie a brief theatrical window before it streams, when this might be about as ideal an at-home, second-screen-viewing vehicle as you’re apt to find.Īlthough this serves as an obvious showcase for the star (who also produced the film), the intriguing auspices reunite him with “Southpaw” director Antoine Fuqua along with writer Nic Pizzolatto ( “True Detective”), who wring as much as they can out of Joe’s ordeal in a way that makes this more than just another logistical exercise in Covid-19 filmmaking. Official poster of The Guilty (Netflix) ADVERTISEMENT. (Thanks to sheer volume, on Netflix even the narrowest concepts fit somewhere within a subgenre.) With minimal support from the actors playing his coworkers and the voices on the line (Peter Sarsgaard, Riley Keough and Ethan Hawke among them), Gyllenhaal impressively holds the screen for roughly 90 minutes, often with the camera positioned in claustrophobic close-ups.įrom that perspective, the film has a fair amount in common with another Netflix thriller, the recent French sci-fi offering “Oxygen,” which tasked Mélanie Laurent with holding the viewer’s attention while talking to unseen voices. Shot during the height of the pandemic, the entire movie takes place in that single location. Peter Sarsgaard, the actor known for films including Garden State, Shattered. Beyond that, nothing is necessarily as it seems, as the story unfolds while a series of wildfires light up the Los Angeles horizon, adding to a sense of tension within the call center and distinguishing the setting. Netflix’s official Twitter account showcased the core cast in a thread on Monday, noting that the role of Emily Lighton, the young mother who calls 911 and tells Joe she’s been kidnapped, was played by American Honey and The Devil All the Time actress Riley Keough. What’s happening? About all we know is that Gyllenhaal’s Joe Baylor is a street cop who has been temporarily assigned to this desk work, and that a pesky reporter keeps calling. Remaking a 2018 Danish movie, “The Guilty” is a taut, remarkably spare thriller that casts Gyllenhaal as a 911 dispatcher, taking a series of disparate calls – and one particularly significant one involving an imperiled woman – while clearly struggling with a separate personal crisis. Guilty is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language thriller drama film directed by Ruchi Narain and written by Ruchi Narain, Kanika Dhillon and Atika Chohan.
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