Director: James Marsh
Genre: Thriller/
Drama/ Crime
Runtime: 93
minutes
Year:
2009
Starring: Paddy
Considine, Warren Clarke, David Morrissey, James Fox, Sean Harris, Jim Carter,
Warren Clarke, David Calder, Maxine Peake
Description: A team of
investigators attempt to stop a serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper
from claiming his next victim, but uncover something far more terrifying.
Review: The second part in the “Red Riding” trilogy is largely focusing on the
search for serial killer ‘The Yorkshire Ripper’. This is an existing case, but
the author of the book series, David Pearce, gave it his own interpretation.
The fact that prostitutes are mutilated and murdered over the course of several
years is an actual fact. But people and situations have been fictionalized,
with the exception of the Ripper himself.
The case, however, plays
mainly in the background and serves only as a means of bringing detective Peter
Hunter from Manchester to Yorkshire, to break the case wide open once more.
Hunter has unpleasant memories of the English town and the local police,
because years earlier he led an investigation into the murder of real estate
tycoon John Dawson, in which two officers were injured. At the time, he felt he
was strongly opposed by the Yorkshire police and was never able to bring the
case to a close.
The film is still
understandable if you haven’t seen the climax of the previous film, set in
1974, but it’s more interesting with the prior knowledge from the first film. Certain
characters who had a small role in that part are now suddenly more on the
foreground. Especially dirty cop Bob Craven.
Although the second film has
a different director, “1980” has the same gloomy atmosphere as its predecessor.
Where in that part at least you still get the idea that at leas a few
characters are escaping all the corruption, in this middle part the tumult
seems to encompass all of Yorkshire. Equally
as good as the first film.
Rating: 3,5
/ 5
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