Just yesterday the Chief Inspector of London Police and today the convicted criminal John Luther (Idris Elba) He escapes from prison to finish the last case. In retrospect (not the most elegant script move, that’s enough), before his arrest, the young porter took charge of the investigation into Callum Aldrich’s kidnapping, and his arrest actually had a completely different client. Interest – David Robie, a successful trader and part-time serial killer (Andy Serkis)who had just kidnapped (and soon killed) the unfortunate young man. Now Luther must investigate on his own while hiding from his former colleagues led by Odette Rein. (Cynthia Erivo) – the new head of the serious and serial crimes department.
Talks about the continuation of the Luther series on the big screen have been going on for a long time – in this case, the project is about another BBC hit “Peaky Blinders”, in which creator Stephen Knight promises to complete the story of gangster Tommy. Shelby and his gang are at full meter. Things are a little different with Luther, however: the show’s fifth season, which aired in 2019, pretty much summed up the story of the adventures of a genius (Holmes plus Columbo) but an extremely unpleasant detective, if not obnoxious. she has avoided even the most dishonest ways of pushing justice in the direction it needs, and has safely ruined herself by falling in love with local Irene Adler (psycho-killer Alice Morgan, the wonderful role of Ruth Wilson). The depressing but profoundly plausible ending transformed Luther from excellent detective prose to extraordinary drama.
Directed by Season 5 director Jamie Payne from a screenplay by Luther’s writer Neil Cross, Fallen Sun doesn’t quite fit the bar he picked up a few years ago. Now it’s a good detective thriller where not everyone understands very well why the reunion was necessary. Elba’s character doesn’t have much room for evolution, so the actor frowns on spectacularly during his two hours of screen time (funny when full meter is longer than a two-episode fourth season). Killer David Robie is so caricatured and caricatured that you inadvertently start seeing Gollum from Lord of the Rings again in Serkis.
All of this, however, somewhat pales in light of the incomprehensible finale – the series was surprising, albeit silly. After that, “Luther” turns from a good crime thriller into a pretty mediocre thriller. Somewhere in the middle of the movie, Elba’s protagonist (better suited to Bonds) defiantly refuses the bartender’s favorite agent 007 drink, but in the final scene the picture itself seems to be begging – not even for a pass, but absorption in an orphan without a Daniel Craig franchise. and for dissolution. It’s clear that this is dust in the eyes, no one is going to confuse “Luther” with “Bond”, and we’re dealing with empty cliché juggling, but in any case, you can’t imagine a more somber ending to a truly glorious series. .