This circle includes gambling - addicted dentist Nathan (Sullivan Stapleton); his edgy receptionist - spouse, Lucy (Teresa Palmer); Lucy's cruel, bar - owner brother, Jack (Callan Mulvey); Jack's two - timing wife, Alice (a miscast Alice Braga); her hunky lover, Dylan (Luke Hemsworth); and
the corrupt local cop (Bryan Brown) who's onto them all.
I'm not really sure — except the plot quickly begins to spin further out of control, as we add in a blonde woman with amnesia, a hookah - smoking British shrink, various
corrupt local cops and a belly dancer with really awful taste in eye shadow.
Not exact matches
Based on the same novel that led to Elie Chouraqui's Man on Fire (1987, starring Scott Glenn as the burnout agent), Brian Helgeland's script takes a distinctly gringo view of this foreign land, where the fragile but courageous white girl is victimized by scary
locals who range from the odious kidnappers (organized by someone known only as «The Voice» [Gustavo Sánchez Parra], aided by his weasely brother Aurelio [Gero Camilo]-RRB- to the
corrupt cops, primarily, the visibly seamy Fuentes (Jesús Ochoa).
Avery is an ambitious rookie
cop navigating a
local police department ruled by the menacingly
corrupt detective Deluca (Ray Liotta).
The story lurches forward six years and deals with Peter Hunter (Paddy Considine), a Manchester policeman whose bosses assign him to take a shot at catching the Yorkshire Ripper, stomping all over the professional pride — and
corrupt self - interest — of the
local cops, some of whom make their encore appearance here.