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Padded-Out Prequel ‘Sexy Beast’ Weighs Down the Cult Crime Classic: TV Review
The prequel to Jonathan Glazer's 2000 crime film offers unnecessary backstory and prolonged, dragging plot.
Coming from the world of music videos and working from a script by Louis Mellis and David Scinto, Glazer created arresting images like a boulder crashing into Gal’s swimming pool or a safe-cracking scene set entirely underwater. Teddy recruits Gal and Don to steal a valuable gem of Indian origin from aristocrat Stephen Eaton (Julian Rhind-Tutt), introducing a Robin Hood-style populism that’s the closest thing “Sexy Beast” has to its own identity. Unfortunately, Teddy is also the perpetrator of a graphic sexual assault that concludes the second episode, just one instance of the sensational violence that crowds out the more intriguing aspects of “Sexy Beast.” The abstract dread of the more restrained movie is here replaced by multiple brutal beatings.
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