NIELS ARDEN OPLEY

DEAD MAN DOWN (2013)

Starring Colin Farrell - Victor, Terrence Howard - Alphonse, Dominic Cooper - Darcy, Noomi Rapace - Beatrice and Isabelle Huppert - Valentine. Directed by Niels Arden Opley.

Victor is the right-hand man of an underground crime lord, Alphonse, who is faced with someone systematically killing members of his gang and sending him taunting and threatening messages. Darcy, Victor’s friend, who also works for Alphonse, becomes obsessed with finding out who the killer is in order to carry Alphonse’s favour and rise in the organisation. In the midst of this, Victor meets Beatrice, a mysterious French woman, who lives with her mother, Valentine, in the high rise apartment building opposite Victor’s. As Victor starts to become attracted to her, he soon finds out that Beatrice is not the woman she seems be, but rather a crime victim seeking retribution for which she needs Victor’s help.