
Grief, guilt, and betrayal. In North London, a young mother dotes on her four-year-old son and lives in a modest flat with her husband, a cop in the bomb squad. The Arsenal football team is their religion. On May Day, a major terrorist attack brings tragedy while she is in the arms of a rich reporter who lives over the road. She wishes she were dead. In grief and guilt, she pursues revenge, faces betrayal, experiences delusions, and may be suicidal. Two men seek her affection... (Full plot summary below)
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Grief, guilt, and betrayal. In North London, a young mother dotes on her four-year-old son and lives in a modest flat with her husband, a cop in the bomb squad. The Arsenal football team is their religion. On May Day, a major terrorist attack brings tragedy while she is in the arms of a rich reporter who lives over the road. She wishes she were dead. In grief and guilt, she pursues revenge, faces betrayal, experiences delusions, and may be suicidal. Two men seek her affection: the reporter and a colleague of her husband's who imagines caravan camping with her on a beach. In London, the city of the Great Fire and of Hitler's bombardment, is there any way back to life for her?
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| Total FilmChris HicksBy then, Incendiary has become a tear-stained monologue about bereavement and resilience - it goes off with a bang, but ends with a whimper. |
| VarietyJohn AndersonAspires to so much it ends up being less than the sum of its parts. |
| London Evening StandardDerek MalcolmWhile individual scenes work well, the whole simply defies belief. And, because of this, the final polemic which suggests that London, constantly renewing itself, will never be defeated, simply appears hopelessly sentimental. |
| CinematicalErik DavisWilliams is magnificent in her role -- though they beat the living hell out of her, to a point where it almost becomes ridiculous. |
| Empire MagazineWilliam ThomasIt's an atmospheric drama and a strong turn from Williams, but doesn't tell us anything about ourselves or the terrorists that we didn't already know. |
| Filmcritic.comJason McKiernana well-made film featuring good actors and which tells an intimate story, but which tries to do too much and collapses under the weight of its own aspirations |
| Eye for FilmAmber WilkinsonIf a member of cast could save a film, Michelle Williams would be the person to hire, since her central performance in this muddle of a movie is the only thing that stops it being unwatchable. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyLondon is bombed and contrives to be less recognisable than it's ever been on film, full of people who don't look, act or even speak like Londoners. |
| Daily Mirror (UK)David EdwardsIt's only Williams who gives the film any life but, in the face of these odds, even she's helpless to save it from a one-star rating. |
| Metro (UK)Larushka Ivan-ZadehThe story is far-fetched and exploitative and the awkward dialogue is frequently laughable. But committed acting, cast chemistry and the odd touching moment just about save you from checking whether this was actually produced by Bernard Matthews. |