The Guilty, review: Jake Gyllenhaal’s underheated remake loses the plot
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msn.com• 15 cert, 89 min. Dir: Antoine Fuqua The Guilty ought to fire up a pressure-cooker intensity. This English-language remake of a well-regarded Danish thriller focuses entirely on a 911 call-centre operator, played in real time by an all-stops-out Jake Gyllenhaal, who becomes so embroiled in one family’s emergency he loses the plot.
Decent though Gustav Møller’s 2018 version was, the details left a fair bit of room for improvement. This one leaves even more.
There’s something ominous (in a bad way) about the opening shot of Los Angeles surrounded by apocalyptic forest fires at night, signifying Extreme Urban Inferno to all who enter.
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