Clairvoyant femme fatale Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men: one of whom she knows will be her murderer.... (Full plot summary below)
Clairvoyant femme fatale Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men: one of whom she knows will be her murderer.
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The Stranger (Seattle, WA)Ciara DolanThe cinematic equivalent of a sewage truck colliding with a tanker full of gasoline. |
New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisLondon Fields, directed by Matthew Cullen and adapted from Martin Amis’s 1989 novel, is, quite simply, horrendous — a trashy, tortured misfire from beginning to end. |
Screen InternationalAllan HunterLondon Fields overflows with interesting ideas but they are frequently buried under lurid fantasy sequences, blunt-edged satire and the sense that it is much more amused by its own wild daring than we are. |
One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekA flashy but muddled and incredibly tedious farrago that tries desperately to reflect the novel's prismatic literary brilliance in visual form but fails miserably. |
Boston HeraldJames VerniereAdaptation of great 1989 novel by Martin Amis with Billy Bob Thornton, Amber Heard, Jim Sturgess and Johnny Depp a complete mess. |
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicBuried underneath the glop are interesting notions on reality, creation, and the nature of death. And thanks to its aesthetic, it's at least a very beautiful catastrophe. |
The GuardianHenry BarnesNovelistic, rich and awfully silly, London Fields – like Ben Wheatley’s take on High Rise - is a long-awaited adaptation of a popular and gloomily prophetic book, that seems unnecessary. |
The TelegraphJane MulkerrinsHeard, who certainly has the requisite physical allure for the part, puts in a decent enough turn as the enigmatic Six but, like her on-screen character, can seemingly do the nothing to prevent the brutal murder, either of herself, or of Amis’s bestseller. |
Movie NationRoger MooreIt’s a neo-noir murder mystery capturing Heard at peak femme fatale in a tale observed, manipulated and told by a struggling writer (Billy Bob Thornton) for “the chaos.” “Chaos” doesn’t quite sum up the movie. But almost. |
Epoch TimesMark JacksonAmber Heard has a particularly goddess-like face; it apparently syncs perfectly with the Golden Ratio. That's the only reason men will go see this movie, and probably love it. |