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I Came By review: The 'Evil Hugh Bonneville' Movie You Can't Tell If It's A Comedy Or A Lecture

Director: Babak Anvari. Starring: George MacKay, Hugh Bonneville, Kelly Macdonald, Barrada Setu, Antonio Arquille, Purcell Ascot 15,110 minutes.

How much fun are we going to have with Netflix's latest glossy thriller, I Came By? Huh? Paddingtonown Hugh Bonneville plays the duplicitous miserable role, with the cracked look of a man who has just been served shoddy wine, flushing ashes down the toilet. I see you there. We caught him howling at the TV in a scene earlier. Among other things, watching an episode of the animated Metahis comedy Rick and Morty.

His character Hector Blake is commonly known as "St. Blake". He is a former High Court Judge and is known for regularly holding hearings on behalf of refugees. He claims to unbelievers, "If you knew anything about my career, you'd know I'm not racist." Jordan Peele's Get Out Like's line, "If I could, I would have voted for Obama for a third term," this should be read as an imminent red flag. But unlike Peele's Modern His Classics,I Came By doesn't quite make sense if it leads to a punchline or a lecture. Its intent to recapture the high-tension thrills of Hitchcock's oeuvre, or the maniacal thrillers of his '60s and his '70s, are never translated. Instead, we find well-meaning works scrambling to find its voice.

Hector is targeted by modern-day Robin Hood, Toby Neely (George MacKay), wielding a can of spray paint in place of a traditional bow and arrow. His feat is breaking into the homes of wealthy and corrupt people and leaving graffitied messages on walls painted with Farrow and Ball. Toby's partner in crime, Jay Agassi (Purcell Ascot), is expecting a baby with his girlfriend Naz (Barada Sethu). he wants to get out Not everyone will be like Toby. Toby relies on his worn-out but loyal mother, Lizzie (Kelly at his McDonald's), to clean up the mess in the kitchen while he pursues idealistic revenge. All Lizzie really wants to do is pour her a big glass of wine and watch The Great British Bake Off.

So Toby took on Hector as his solo project, claiming that Judge's squeaky clean reputation was all his PR spin hiding a long family history of imperialist sentiment. I was convinced. He finds more than he bargained for (or prepared for): a hidden door behind a bookshelf, a shadow of footsteps on the other side, and more than the conservative ideology Hector hides. It became clear.

On paper,I Came By has everything you need. It's a heist thriller of sorts, embedded in the realities of class and race in modern Britain. Shuffles and muffled cries came from the high court judge's basement. And Babak Anvari, the film's director, certainly has form when it comes to lace-up genre work with a distinct social awareness. War-torn post-revolutionary Iran.

Although Bonneville somewhat pigeonholed him in the role of the ill-fated Tough by his roles in Notting Hill and Downton, Downton. , certainly defying the mold. But beyond some borderline parody images of the upper-class menace – his weapon of choice is the cricket bat – his performance here is too measured to really subvert those preconceived notions.

This is a lethal blow for I Came By, and Anvari and Namsi Khan's script can't find a stylistic hook. It may be the rare thriller that doesn't actively sideline its female characters, but neither McDonald nor Setu venture outside the boundaries of "worried loved ones." And the film is distractingly scattered in an attempt to fully capture the breadth and breadth of its social commentary. In fact, so packed with tangentially related ideas that even the timeline is confusing and difficult to follow, only indicated by the erratic changes in McKay's hair color. I spent a lot of time on I Came By figuring out what was going on, so I left the movie without knowing exactly what I was supposed to feel.

"I Came By" will hit theaters August 19th and stream on Netflix UK starting August 31st