Review – Luther: The Fallen Sun

The story line here feels more like a season (or at least a multi-episode arc) rather than a stand-alone movie. If nothing else, the hero goes from hero cop to inmate in a blink-and-you-miss-it, poorly-assembled montage of news clips. Obviously at this point Idris Elba has the title character down pat, and Andy Serkis does a workmanlike job as the despicable villain. But once again the bad guy is just a little too despicable. Nothing that could possibly happen to him would be a balanced comeuppance after such a parade of atrocities. It doesn’t help that the whole thing depends on the hackneyed legend of live pay-per-view snuff sites. Mildly amusing