Legacy (2010):

Starring:

Idris Elba - Malcolm Gray

William Hope - Mark Star

Monique Curnen - Valentina Gray

Richard Brake - Scott O'Keefe

Clarke Peters - Ola Adenuga

Julian Wadham - Gregor Salenko

Gerlad Kyd - Gustavo Helguerra

Eamonn Walker - Darnell Gray Jr.

Lara Pulver - Diane Shaw

Director:

Thomas Ikimi (2nd Film)

Rotten Tomatoes: 83%

Flixster: Unrated

Synopsis:

A haunted black-ops soldier struggles with paranoia and anxiety while hiding out in a seedy Brooklyn tenement building, and plotting to expose his brother - a rising New York Senator with White House ambitions. Malcolm Gray (Idris Elba) was on a mission to assassinate a powerful Eastern European chemical weapons dealer when he was captured, and brutally tortured. Years later Malcolm has returned home, but the psychological wounds from his harrowing ordeal still run deep. Now, shut away from the world with nothing but his suffocating memories to keep him company, Malcolm begins to suspect that his politician brother has succumbed to corruption, and vows to prevent him from reaching the White House by whatever means possible.

Review:

Starts off Incredibly unorganized. It's just all over the place. Almost the entire film takes place in a small apartment where the various actors visit Elba with flashbacks mixed in which makes you feel completely incoherent & confused. Don't know that anyone else has seen this thus why there is no Flixster rating. Had a pretty intense fight scene however with some pretty good techniques. There were so many things that I didn't understand, even after I had watched the whole thing. Elba wasn't horrible, he had tons of intensity but since you couldn't understand what the hell was going on, it was completely irrelevant. The ending wasn't bad, it had somewhat of a twist that was revealed in the final scenes of the film. Intensity gets turned up further into the film.


36%

Lead Acting: 8/15
Supporting Cast: 2/15

Plot: 5/10
Compared To The Genre: 4/10

Cinematography: 5/20

Intrigue: 8/20

Extra: 4/10