Dom Hemingway (2013) - IMDb

Watch The Movie-Dom Hemingway (2013) - IMDb. Dom Hemingway (2013) Poster. MOVIEmeter. Top 5000. Up 91 this week ... Emilia Clarke at event of Dom Hemingway (2013) Still of Jude Law and Richard E. Motion Picture Rating (MPAA) Rated R for sexual content, nudity, pervasive language, some violence and drug use

Country: UK

Language: English
Release Date: 4 April 2014 (USA)
Also Known As: Dom Hemingway
Filming Locations: London, England, UK

After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.

A disorienting and ultimately disarming movie about a brutal Cockney ex-con with Jude Law playing a part Bob Hoskins would have played 25 years ago. With slicked back, receding hair and mutton chops, Law acquits himself very convincingly as a profane, poetic thug. Just saw this film at the Toronto International Film Festival and it's very entertaining, edgy and often gripping, with a satisfyingly soft heart, given all the criminality portrayed. Props to Richard E. Grant as his wiser sidekick and the rest of a wholly believable cast, most of whom I don't recognize. Dom is a character akin to the crazed gangster played by Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast and you can see why Law would relish this part. And he attacks it with relish, bravado and just enough vulnerability to actually make this brute likable. You end up rooting for him due not only to story circumstances, but his basic humanity despite his despicable behaviour. I don't know if real Cockney gangsters would buy Law in the part, but I did. Worth seeing.