Fascinating...not perfect but a smart adult film

Rating: 8/10 (10 October 2005)

I think the film is wonderful. I'm not a critic and I don't particularly care to play one and pontificate, but I will say Clive Owens is amazing. Horrifying, fascinating. OK, it may be a little cliché, at this point, for a modern Londoner to be that fixated on being "working class." Sure, it's not out of the question, but it's a little overdone at this point. It does give his character motivation, sure, anger and complexity...but it's so over-used.
However, the last scene, where Portman's character walks through Times Sq, with men looking at her left and right, and she looking straight ahead, is one of the most poignantly tragic, beautifully understated scenes I've ever seen. That scene alone. Wow. Although I'm still not sure what "Blower's Daughter" means...