Deviation (2012)
2/10
One of Dyer's Worst
14 February 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The landan cant film gov cant gov. Too many to note. Too many to get ashamed about. The kind of films that only get made because some guy lives next door to someone's agent who then knows a guy who knows another guy who can get a production house discount. A film made out of convenience rather than enthusiasm and that is evident from how painfully slow Deviation is, i mean damn. Nothing happens in this film.

Danny Dyer, in one of the most miscast roles of his cinematic career, takes a nurse hostage and just terrifies her then for the next ninety minutes. Cue some chintzy hope spots and run ins from superfluous and poorly acted supporting characters, artless cinematography and an oversaturated colour palette.

Deviation is just as terrible as it's one sheet suggests. Danny Dyer was brought onto this production it seems just for purely economic reasons and the film suffers greatly from this choice. Dyer is good at playing a certain type, but that type is sure as hell not an en quote "complex" schizophrenic killer.

Dyer is terrible in this film and Anna Walton doesn't fare so well either as his co-star. They are not helped by the insipid screenplay which incites no engaging drama and its social commentary is lazy and has no value apart from unintentional parody. Deviation is a cheap psycho thriller with an awful central performance from Dyer who admittedly only had lazily written and poorly researched material to work with and is just as irrelevant now as it was eight years ago.
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