While vacationing in Greece, American tourist Beckett (John David Washington) becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating accident. Forced to run for his life and desperate to get across the country to the American embassy to clear his name, tensions escalate as the authorities close in, political unrest mounts, and Beckett falls even deeper into a dangerous web of conspiracy.... (Full plot summary below)
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While vacationing in Greece, American tourist Beckett (John David Washington) becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating accident. Forced to run for his life and desperate to get across the country to the American embassy to clear his name, tensions escalate as the authorities close in, political unrest mounts, and Beckett falls even deeper into a dangerous web of conspiracy.
Leave your thoughts about Beckett.
| Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdonaIt’s a ‘70s paranoia movie in the best sense. And this is no hackneyed tribute; it’s complex, murky, propulsive. |
| Slant MagazineWilliam RepassIt’s thanks to a kind of tug of war between background and foreground that Beckett succeeds as a piece of entertainment. |
| Vanity FairRichard LawsonBeckett moves through the film not as an invincible badass, but as a man who is tired and in a great deal of pain. And there is indeed no rest for the weary: when Beckett has a brief respite from his physical odyssey, the grief rushes back in. It’s all pretty difficult to watch, as it probably should be. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleApart from a few lapses, Filomarino is straightforward and gets the job done. Along the way, he taps into everyone’s most paranoid fantasy about foreign travel — where the police and authority figures turn on you, and the Constitution or Bill of Rights are a few thousand miles away. |
| The Film StageErik NielsenIts setup is elevated, even after it goes from one close call to another, by the dream logic Filomarino instills in the minutiae of his story’s moving parts and John David Washington’s full-bodied performance. |
| IndieWireDavid EhrlichThin and politically disengaged as this diverting Euro-thriller can be, it never forgets how even the most desperate of people can be left to suffer in plain sight — nothing but figures in a landscape. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeIt’s intriguing to see Filomarino experiment with the formula and exciting to imagine where his career might go from here. |
| New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriDirector Filomarino is onto something here. The warm intimacy of the movie’s early scenes is replaced by such shocking brutality by the end that the violence feels like an emotional correlative, a blood ritual of sorts. |
| The GuardianBenjamin LeeLike Beckett trying to escape his pursuers, it’s a scrappy little film but one worth keeping up with. |
| We Got This CoveredScott CampbellBeckett is a solid Netflix effort that offers a throwback to the intense political manhunt thrillers of the 1970s. |
