Legacy (2010)
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83% of critics liked it
(6 reviews) -
40% of users liked it
(166 ratings)
A haunted black-ops soldier struggles with paranoia and anxiety while hiding out in a seedy Brooklyn tenement building, and plotting to expose his brother - a rising New York Senator with White House ambitions. Malcolm Gray (Idris Elba) was on a mission to assassinate a powerful Eastern European… More A haunted black-ops soldier struggles with paranoia and anxiety while hiding out in a seedy Brooklyn tenement building, and plotting to expose his brother - a rising New York Senator with White House ambitions. Malcolm Gray (Idris Elba) was on a mission to assassinate a powerful Eastern European chemical weapons dealer when he was captured, and brutally tortured. Years later Malcolm has returned home, but the psychological wounds from his harrowing ordeal still run deep. Now, shut away from the world with nothing but his suffocating memories to keep him company, Malcolm begins to suspect that his politician brother has succumbed to corruption, and vows to prevent him from reaching the White House by whatever means possible. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- Thomas Ikimi, Stephen Savage
- Written By
- Thomas Ikimi
- Genres
- Mystery & Suspense, Drama
- On DVD
- Dec 27, 2010
- Studio
- Code Black Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Michael Ordoņa, Los Angeles Times
Aspiring for psychological drama rather than action movie, the film takes itself far too seriously.
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Norm Schrager, Filmcritic.com
... the director has a good eye and a great lead actor to pull Legacy through.
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Jeffrey Chen, ReelTalk Movie Reviews
As a showpiece for Elba, the movie functions well, and will probably be regarded mainly for being just that.
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Alexander Pashby, Electric Sheep
A tight psychological thriller that punches well above its low-budget weight.
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Amber Wilkinson, Eye for Film
Featuring plenty of visceral thrills and presented with more intelligence than many of the thrillers which spring from Hollywood strafing cliche bullets to little effect, it suggests everyone concerned is destined for bigger, better things in the future.
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Cast
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Idris Elba
as Malcolm Gray
- Eamonn Walker
- Monique Curnen
- Clarke Peters
- Richard Brake
- Julian Wadham
- Gerald Kyd
- Lara Pulver
- Monique Gabriela Curnen
- William Hope
- Mem Ferda
- Niall Greig Fulton
- John Kazek
- Wolfgang Bodison
- Will Wallace
- Kyrie Maezumi
- Carson Aune
- Conor O'Farrell
- Oscar Torre
- Cazzy Golomb
- Christopher Pennock
- Francesca Brown
- Alisa Schulz