The Veteran | |
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Directed by | Matthew Hope |
Screenplay by | Matthew Hope Robert Henry Craft |
Story by | Matthew Hope |
Produced by | Debbie Shuter Kim Leggatt |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Philipp Blaubach |
Edited by | Emma Gaffney |
Music by | Mark Delany |
Production companies | DMK Productions Insight Films |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £2 million [1] |
The Veteran is a 2011 British action crime thriller film directed by Matthew Hope and starring Toby Kebbell, Brian Cox, Tony Curran and Adi Bielski.
Robert Miller, a veteran paratrooper, is returning from the war in Afghanistan to his home in a violent decaying South London Heygate Estate, overrun by gun-toting youth gangs. The gangs are led by a drug lord gangster Jones who is interested in Miller working for him, but his job offer is rejected.
Through an ex-army mate, Miller finds work in undercover surveillance. He is soon recruited by a couple of shady government operatives for an undercover operation to keep tabs on a network of suspected terrorist cells. Embedded in the terrorist group is a Lebanese-born British citizen informant.
Miller soon discovers that the security forces and the intelligence services are not quite what they seem. He uncovers a conspiracy the government is planning to set off a series of coordinated attacks to renew fear of terrorism to help them benefit from the GOD policy - Guns, Oil, and Drugs. Miller finds out that all his surveillance was simply to confirm the go ahead for the attacks. The government needs funding and the GOD policy had been instated for years. Miller finds out that this links with the local gang terrorising his neighbourhood being linked with the terrorist cells.
Miller attacks and kills most of Jones' men, but also accidentally shoots an innocent woman. He ends up being shot dead by a young kid that Miller had previously been trying to get out of Jones' gang.
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The movie was primarily shot in various locations in London, England. Some scenes were also filmed in the Canary Wharf area and at the O2 Arena.
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a score of 60% based on reviews from 20 critics, with an average rating of 5.22 out of 10. [2]
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