The commitment of Karia and writers Rita Kalnejais and Rupert Jones to not diagnosing their protagonist’s inner psychodrama is both intriguing and a little distancing.At first glance, as Stuart Bentley’s camera gradually finds him through the throngs of travelers hurrying through Stansted airport, security official Joseph (Whishaw) seems a pretty staid, gormless everyman, with a polite, robotic manner countering the frazzled anxiety of the people he pats down at the end of the scanner gates. Another short of his, 2013’s “Beat,” provided the blueprint for “Surge”: Also starring Whishaw as a social outcast testing the limits of acceptable human behavior, it was a contained firecracker that effectively burned through its idea in 12 minutes. Ben Whishaw wigs out as a mad-as-hell security worker on an unhinged London crime spree in Aneil Karia's dynamic, sometimes absurd debut.There’s mannered, there’s manic, and then there’s the malfunctioning pinball-machine delirium that A rare shot of genuinely frenzied energy in British genre cinema, “Surge” seems likely to prompt comparisons to the recent work of Benny and Josh Safdie — in particular, 2017’s Robert Pattinson starrer “Good Time,” another untethered study of an amateur criminal undone by his own escalating neuroses. With Ben Whishaw, Ellie Haddington, Chris Coghill, Ian Gelder. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. The Hollywood Reporter, LLC is a subsidiary of Prometheus Global Media, LLC.

It’s a ride either way, and quite the showcase for Whishaw, who, between this and his recent, slithering Uriah Heep in “The Personal History of David Copperfield,” seems to be enjoying the chance to be a bit less orderly on the job for once. (By the time it lifts one of that film’s most iridescent images, as a red smoke grenade detonates in the wake of a frantic heist, Karia’s film might be reaching a little too directly for the parallel.) Airless scenes at the family home with his loveless father (Ian Gelder) and cowed mother (an excellent Ellie Haddington, wringing real poignancy from a tight emotional range) provide some insight into Joseph’s wired awkwardness. At another point, he goes to visit Lily (Jasmine Jobson), a pretty colleague from work whom he'd overheard the other day complaining about setting up her new TV.

His character, for one, would certainly approve. ‘Surge’: Film Review Ben Whishaw wigs out as a mad-as-hell security worker on an unhinged London crime spree in Aneil Karia's dynamic, sometimes absurd debut. His mother's most immediate reaction is to get angry about the mess.After this point, both protagonist and film just keep unscrewing the bolts on the insanity gas. Realizing he hasn't got the right HDMI cable on hand, he nips downstairs to the hardware store, and finding his card doesn't work, leaves to go rob a bank. Joseph's increasingly manic mood leads him into a spree of bad behavior and crime that's so comically bizarre it's almost believable. When, on a teetering high from his professional meltdown, he spontaneously pulls off a robbery at a minor high-street bank — claiming to carry a gun he doesn’t possess and being taken at his word — it’s hard to make much sense of the impulse, least of all when the principal objective of the stickup is to pay for a £5 HDMI cable.Things get more unhinged from there, sometimes mesmerizingly so. Playing a security worker (like a TSA agent) at London's Stansted Airport whose simmering mental unease finally comes to a rolling boil one day, Ben Whishaw contributes a scalding performance in This feature debut for director Aneil Karia, who has directed episodes of edgier TV shows such as At work, Whishaw's Joseph keeps his head down and goes through the motions of patting down travelers who've set off the metal detector alarm and asking people to empty their pockets into the trays over and over again. Surge review – Ben Whishaw pounds the streets in gripping psychodrama ... British film-maker Aneil Karia now makes a vehement, if flawed feature debut at the Sundance film festival. Yet the aim throughout is not to give away too much of what’s going on his cranked, fizzing brain. Set over 24 hours in London, SURGE is a stripped back thriller about a man who goes on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation. ... 'Surge': Film Review | Sundance … At 99 minutes, this lateral expansion of the same energy, if not quite the same story, flags a little in the final stages. An extended sequence that sees a fritzed-out Joseph check into a boutique hotel, dismember its furnishings with surgical zeal and infiltrate a high-end wedding  like some particularly unnerving son of Mr. Bean is inspired, high-wire cinema that would work brilliantly — perhaps even more so — as a short in its own right. Movie reviews. Read Next: Outfest LA: ‘Gossamer Folds’ Director and DP on the Importance of Casting Trans Actors But any airport is a place of disquieting contrasts: a neutral, clinical space nonetheless chattering with human sweat and stress, where a total stranger like Joseph will put a hand to your thigh as a matter of course. The camera dances around him in long unbroken takes, taking in the baffled expressions of passersby and those who haven't noticed and couldn't give a damn alike.

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