Toronto Review: Jake Gyllenhaal In ‘The Guilty’
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deadline.comAfter his labored and pointless remake of The Magnificent Seven five years ago and a sequel, The Equalizer 2, two years later, director Antoine Fuqua has repackaged yet another pre-existing entity in The Guilty.
If it doesn’t sound familiar, it’s because the original claustrophobic and pressurized Danish thriller it’s based upon was only seen in the U.S.
at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. This new American version is also set in just one location, a Los Angeles 911 dispatch call center from where cops try to calm down crazies and troublemakers over the phone, and it’s justified by the opportunity for Jake Gyllenhaal to deliver a tour de force performance; he’s essentially the whole show.Shot in 11 days during Covid, this tightly wound
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