Dom Hemingway - film review

Jude Law plays a violent, verbose ex-con trying to reconnect with his daughter and her young son
15 November 2013

A tedious, pretentious Brit comedy, written and directed by Richard Shepard, about a violent, verbose ex-con (Jude Law) which, like the recent Filth, asks us to revel in the shenanigans of a degenerate man then cheer on his bid for redemption. Dom has a beautiful daughter, you see (Emilia Clarke), who now has a little son. Does Dom have the balls to be a caring granddad or will his swaggering cost him his pecker? (The film is obsessed with male genitalia.) Richard E Grant is Dickie, Dom’s one-handed, one-dimensional best friend. That Grant didn’t shove the script straight in the bin suggests he’s purely desperate.

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