Friday, July 2, 2021

 'Disorder' (2015) – Alice Winocour.

After returning home from a recent tour of duty, hypertensive soldier Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) appears clearly distressed, having been recently diagnosed with PTSD, thereby effectively ending his army career, and in this anxious state of mental anguish, mounting paranoia and increasing drug dependency he finds temporary employment as armed home security/personal bodyguard for an extremely wealthy, somewhat shady businessman and his exquisite-looking trophy wife Jessie (Diane Kruger) and their young son Ali (Zaïd Errougui-Demonsant). Mere hours into this ostensibly routine position it very soon becomes desperate, alone on this vast ostentatious expanse of ill-protected real estate, Vincent, with a debilitating war raging constantly in his beleaguered psyche, now unsettlingly finds himself perched precariously on the very knife's edge of a rapidly encroaching threat, both physical and psychological, and stylish film-maker Alice Winocour strongly imbues her garotte-taut thriller with a merciless sense of adrenaline-spiked tension, right from Disorder's enigmatic opening scene of a plainly exhausted Vincent in the midst of a gruelling training exercise, his persistently bloody nose and deeply etched expression of feral alarm being a doomy foreshadowing of his inexorable descent into chaos, wherein he must courageously confront a nemesis far greater than heavily armed terrorists, namely himself! 

'Disorder' is a bullet-sleek, titanian-tipped psychological action thriller, with an unerringly smart script, the breathless action excitingly orchestrated with a Swiss-watch precision by the talented Alice Winocour with a muscular performance by Lava hot action alpha Matthias Schoenaerts, avid fans of the locomotively sleek 'Drive' should also enjoy the similarly propulsive film's blunt-edged minimalism and exhilarating, hard-driving electronic score by Gesafflestein. 


 








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