peteg's blog - noise - movies - 2017 08 19 CityOfTinyLights

City of Tiny Lights

Sat, Aug 19, 2017./noise/movies | Link

For Riz Ahmed, who it seems is essential to any terrorism-related flick out of England. The flashback revelatory structure is too much like Wind River's; I guess this is how you tell a story in 2017. The parallel historical story of their youthful selves is not very plausible or innovative, and the ending is a bit too tidy. It adds up to something less than an extended episode of The Bill. The Wong Kar Wai cinematography does not help.