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Filth

Filth

2014
Comedy, Drama
1h 37m
A bipolar, bigoted junkie cop manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter. (imdb)
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Filth

2014
Comedy, Drama
1h 37m
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Rated 05 Oct 2013
85
85th
Potentially one of the best Christmas films ever made...
Rated 07 Oct 2013
82
56th
Revels in balls-out insanity, an absurd, fucked-up trip into the tragi-comic life of James McAvoy's bastard Scottish cop. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and I think that was a positive thing. A crazy, dark movie.
Rated 04 Apr 2014
52
33rd
I usually hate these bad cop dramas because, aside from the BAD LIEUTENANT movies, they tend not to offer us anything beyond "whoa, this guy's a bad cop! Look at him being a bad cop!" FILTH doesn't give us much to hold onto, either, aside from a mondo bizarro twist at the end. McAvoy's performance is undeniably strong, as is Baird's visual sense. It's just that...okay, yeah, this guy's a bad cop. So what? What else is there? Why should I give a shit?
Rated 22 Feb 2016
3
32nd
Aw that's cute, it thinks it's Bad Lieutenant.
Rated 19 Dec 2013
5
97th
Big surprise and really stunning stuff. Comedic sociopathy at it's best. Now I have to read the book.
Rated 23 Jan 2014
3
27th
Becomes borderline unwatchable.
Rated 01 Oct 2013
81
67th
I'm glad Filth takes a less literal approach and tackles the big themes of the book in an oblique way. James McAvoy is definitely the highlight here, as the film is entirely from his perspective he really sells the mental breakdown of his character. It's darkly funny but just silly enough as to not get bogged down in misery - it walks a fine line between comedy and tragedy, which is the best it could do considering the source. I also really liked the use of focus giving a slightly "off" look.
Rated 15 Oct 2013
78
79th
McAvoy captures the horrible Bruce's doombound journey beautifully; his eyes, face and body capturing every ounce of scheming, wickedness, depravity, and dark humour, and also glimpses of the loss, regret and failure which has sent him on his way. The tone of the film reflects Bruce's adventure, veering between tragedy, black comedy, exploitation and flashes of surreal horror. The supporting cast are effective, and Baird shows enough restraint to avoid the path of Britflick cliché. Recommended.
Rated 20 Oct 2013
95
84th
I absolutely never would have expected this performance out of James McAvoy. Admittedly, I don't know much (if any) of his work beyond "Atonement" and the trailers for "Trance" and "X-Men First Class", but this was still a revelation. In fact, there was so much that was surprising, thrilling and shocking that I feel like I need to see it again if it hits the states. Best movie I've seen this year.
Rated 23 Jan 2014
80
67th
This is one of those twisted movies that makes you feel lots of different things. I laughed, I felt sad as it was revealed why he was going so nuts, and I felt my fair share of disgust about what the character was doing. That it could pull it around and make me feel for him is an accomplishment. I felt intrigued the entire time. McAvoy put in one of the best performances of the year, every snarl, tear, perverted/creepy douchebag look, everything he did was pitch perfect.
Rated 26 Jan 2014
70
61st
A film sometimes as bipolar as its pro(an)tagonist, with moments of utter hate and craziness suddenly turning into soul searching and regret. McAvoy is excellent as human filth, and the narrative doesnt let go until the very last frame.
Rated 27 Jul 2014
43
10th
This movie is so unbelievably full of itself. It thinks it was made twenty years ago, when this kind of hyper-stylized macho "badass"-ness hadn't been done dozens of times already, and done much better. Take equal parts Trainspotting, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and A Clockwork Orange, reduce the quality by 95% and you get this. The hardcore veneer (which is actually quite tame) tries and fails to hide the script's tired conventions. This might have impressed me when I was in 8th grade.
Rated 29 Aug 2014
55
39th
Bizarre! McAvoy gives a strong performance, and the animal visions were quite fun.
Rated 20 Sep 2014
3
24th
This is the kind of movie that wants to be highly kinetic but fails to do much beyond running in circles.
Rated 26 Apr 2015
77
78th
Fantastically lead by McAvoy who deteriorates by the second throughout the whole film, with a great support turn from the always excellent Marsan. Dark, surreal, and grubby, Bruce's demise is undoubtedly entertaining, although admittedly I'm not sure "Filth" makes the most of its black comedy opportunities. Entertainingly nasty it certainly is though, and I liked the ending.
Rated 09 Aug 2019
98
97th
Now that's an underestimated, serious and perfect thing. Once again, McAvoy is far beyond of himself. And those soundtracks, that ambiance, I can't find anything bad. Same rules apply.
Rated 20 Jan 2014
20
13th
juvenile tripe that foolishly believes itself to be ADULT. unwatchable
Rated 23 Jan 2014
91
68th
Ooh, this is as bold and as dark as it gets! Brave artistic choices from the director John S.Baird. I'm used to beeing amazed by the talent of Eddie Marsan and Shirley Henderson but McAvoy is purely unbeliavable in this one.
Rated 25 Jan 2014
80
84th
crayzay
Rated 26 Jan 2014
3
92nd
Deliciously twisted.
Rated 28 Jan 2014
75
83rd
Crazy, funny, clever and unique with lots of weird shit going on. McAvoy's performance is incredible. It gets a bit annoying at the end, otherwise highly recommended, if you like that kind of stuff.
Rated 28 Jan 2014
60
62nd
Pretty good, seems that the book has been toned down a lot for it's film outing.
Rated 04 Feb 2014
33
15th
I don't get why people like this. There is no storyline. Plot just goes from one lowbrow humor scene to another. It's all cartoonish and cheap-looking. Feels like they weren't even trying to make something worthwhile. I find it very amusing that people find jokes like these genuinely funny.
Rated 04 Feb 2014
69
45th
A merry-go-round of Scottish bastardry. Our protagonists are becoming antagonists and the people are enjoying it. Either this is fresh meat for the viewing public or society is starting to turn. Has its roots in the Bad Lieutenants and a few other exploitation films. I have a feeling this is the beginning of a mainstream sleaze trend, which I will, without much guilt, enjoy.
Rated 05 Feb 2014
79
70th
James McAvoy is brilliant!
Rated 09 Feb 2014
80
85th
Filth the movie feels a little less chaotic than Welsh's novel, but faithful to it nonetheless. I loved it.
Rated 09 Feb 2014
9
91st
Hilarious and shocking. McAvoy is brilliant as a twisted policeman losing his grip on reality.
Rated 11 Feb 2014
80
52nd
A great adaptation of another Irvine Welsh story (Trainspotting) with James McAvoy playing a depraved sociopathic detective who descends further and further into madness as the film goes on. If you've seen Trainspotting that will give a good idea as to where this might lead. This movie is wickedly blackly hilarious and McAvoy is great to watch as usual. The end is pretty great.
Rated 11 Feb 2014
60
52nd
In the end it was just waaay over the top.
Rated 14 Feb 2014
50
58th
Whoa!
Rated 16 Feb 2014
75
81st
awesome...abysmal...i'm not exactly sure what i just saw. i'm pretty sure it was entertaining though, i didn't FEEL bored. uhm...oh, right! mcavoy was phenomenal! which one was he again?
Rated 16 Feb 2014
89
46th
1209: not bad!
Rated 23 Feb 2014
93
93rd
Simply brilliant, almost comparable to Trainspotting. James McAvoy should have gotten an Oscar nomination for this...
Rated 24 Feb 2014
75
71st
A weird disjointed nihilistic romp into Scotland's underbelly. This is a film where the depravity knob is turned to the max. James McAvoy's manic performance is impressive and bewildering. The wild alternating moments of sexual lust, manic, and depressive interludes successfully captures the bipolar state of mind. Since McAvoy's character is portrayed as being totally fucked up right off the bat it might have done more to flesh out a little more of his past aside from just emotional trauma.
Rated 17 Mar 2014
61
23rd
Eğlenceli mi, yoksa temposunun yüksekliğinden mi kolayca akıyor bilemedim. Ama tüm o tempo ve yoğun müzik kullanımıyla bir yerden sonra yorucu hale geldiğini söylemeliyim. Kötü değil ama orijinal bir yanı da yok genel olarak. En iyi yanı kapanış jeneriğiydi.
Rated 01 Apr 2014
70
67th
James McAvoy was really good, and that Scottish setting is always evocative. Overall, it's a great black comedy with nice cinematography, good performances, surreal imagery and a cool soundtrack.
Rated 02 Apr 2014
60
34th
Strangely humourless for a so-called comedy, and the lead character is wildly unlikeable for a drama, which makes the first half of this movie almost unwatchable. The second half is truly interesting, although I was never sure what to feel. This is an insane, confusing and at times disgusting movie, and in my opinion, these traits are only partly justified. More than once it's too despicable for its own good. Overall an intriguing movie though.
Rated 09 May 2014
91
97th
I laughed.
Rated 05 Jun 2014
50
14th
Nihilism 101, and set in Scotland so it often needs subtitles/CC which aren't available with VOD. A bizarre twist near the end, but then finished itself off on a low note. McAvoy plays his role well, with Imogen Poots as the pretty lone voice of sanity, but not on camera enough to exert any lasting influence.
Rated 28 Aug 2014
50
26th
This blackly comedic romp through the depraved world of its seedy 'protagonist' is effective when it's aiming for laughs that function as a kind of nihilistic gut punch. It's less effective when deploying overwrought symbolism and trying to 'humanise' and explain away his vulgar impulses via dimestore psychology. Once the character becomes normalised, the threat, and thus the intensity, begins to dissipate, and the film goes into freefall and never recovers, despite McAvoy's better efforts.
Rated 05 Sep 2014
65
11th
Did I tell you how cool I am, yeah man, so cool, like, so bad and cool and badass and sometimes i say "blow job", yeah, you didnt expect me to say something that badass did you. Have you seen my nunchucks, so cool. I get all badass when im swinging them and playing that one song and im looking in the mirror like, man im badass and cool. I have so much sex, i swear. So cool and yeah and...hey, where are you going?
Rated 27 Sep 2014
75
72nd
Not great, but very dark and rather depraved at times. I love films where people descend into madness. Some great manic performances throughout and there's some good imagery.
Rated 28 Sep 2014
43
13th
Pretty unimpressed, but it did pose a very interesting question that I've been mulling over since I've seen it: What if what I see as orange, you see as teal, and what I see as teal, you see as orange? Sometimes their hair is blue. You've gone too far.
Rated 08 Oct 2014
96
89th
James McAvoy is one of the absolute best actors out there right now, this performance solidifies it. Movie starts off laying out his obsessive plan. He sounds cool, confident, calm and in control of everything surrounding him and for a while you believe it until you start seeing him losing his grip because hes gone way too far in every aspect. Its a great look into how manic depression can destroy anyone, even someone as determined as his character. Its such an amazing performance Holy shit
Rated 29 Oct 2014
50
7th
I'd like to give it a proper review but I trouble understanding the actors.
Rated 06 Nov 2014
7
57th
Filth was a film I had high anticipations for and although I haven't read Irvine Welsh's book, I've heard many good things. James McAvoy undoubtedly gives one of his finest performances to date. His eyes alone tell the story. And his character is both incredibly intriguing and darkly entertaining. This film walks a fine line between comedy and tragedy and it's that fine balance that makes the film credible. I admire this film, but it's a tough watch and certainly not for the faint hearted.
Rated 12 Nov 2014
75
30th
Filth runs abreast its title and then some, but an inexhaustible performance by James McAvoy manages to take a thoroughly despicable character and make us sympathize with him on a primal level in a surprisingly poignant turn in the latter half.
Rated 17 Nov 2014
65
64th
What starts as a very medicore black comedy eventually swerves into something much better, if not outright great. A lot of it comes out of nowhere, but it's a welcome reprieve from the same old, same old, and a number of the formal choices are interesting. James McAvoy gives a better performance than the movie deserves.
Rated 19 Dec 2014
3
38th
Equal parts self-conscious transgression and strained pathos, not really carrying off either with much conviction but doing so with enough style to make it entertaining. Soundtrack is definitely the best part.
Rated 01 Apr 2015
80
79th
Bad piggie
Rated 10 May 2015
37
16th
McAvoy é sensacional, o filme nem tanto.
Rated 24 Aug 2015
95
94th
I feel pretty dirty after watching this but it was so much fun watching James McAvoy destroy everyone in his path on his way to a promotion to head Detective. The movie takes some really strange turns and I must heavily warn anyone who watches it that it has some really strong themes and is very rated R. I have heard some people complained about this movie because it was promoted as a "funny cop movie"...
Rated 27 Aug 2015
62
16th
Well, I couldn't care less about this mediocre played oh-so-asshole-character with his sad, sad, sad(so sad!) past, who smokes a lot, yells at people and fucks superficial female characters in bad, overdone lightning.
Rated 31 Oct 2015
70
42nd
what the H...
Rated 05 Jan 2016
49
27th
I dream of a film that combines Keitel's Bad Lieutenant with Trainspotting.Alas,this isn't it - the search goes on...
Rated 26 Feb 2016
70
46th
A mind-bend, with the worst come-down I've ever seen depicted from a human being
Rated 18 Mar 2016
25
20th
So, so, so self-conscious and belabored in its provocations and transgressions, like an eight-year-old dropping the f-bomb for an hour and a half. An unconvincing facsimile of naughtiness, littered with fourth-wall-breaking attempts that only deflate the not particularly funny joke.
Rated 14 Apr 2016
3
73rd
Much easier to stomach than the book, a mish-mash of stuff, some of which doesn't work so well, good cast though.
Rated 29 Aug 2016
77
40th
McAvoy is brilliant! Wait for the ending...
Rated 14 Sep 2016
50
37th
An interesting film that starts very well, fast paced, full of excesses and interesting characters with no moral, but then it flattens because and overworked search to give meaning to all the initial madness. Anyway, is nice to see topics about mental illness linked with evil and abuses in modern movies.
Rated 18 Jun 2017
55
20th
I wasn't feeling this one. It felt a little like they left a little too much out of it and made it just that bit too incoherent to be enjoyed. The plot twist was also way predictable, making this a bit of a mess for me. I do give credit where it's due and McAvoy is quite brilliant. He goes all out in his performance and strikes a good balance between being charismatic and despicable.
Rated 11 Nov 2017
50
8th
Tries to be Bad Lieutenant and ends up being an emo Trainspotting.
Rated 03 Jun 2018
75
19th
Mcavoy and his accent :)
Rated 17 Mar 2020
60
36th
It's has the same in your face attitude about unforgiven fuck-ups and junkies as previous Irvine Welsh characters, but at least Trainspotting characters did'nt ask you to have pathos for those unapologetic druggies. Here the screenplay tries to excuse James McAvoy's character behaviour by explaining them with past trauma. This movie does have some wicked dark humor in it's center and those scenes work.
Rated 26 Mar 2020
0
0th
I can't give this movie anything above a 0. The more I think about how to review this the more I think of things I dislike. You will not come out of this movie better off than before watching it.
Rated 06 Jun 2020
65
62nd
Filth is an entertaining mix of funny and depressing, relishing in its obscenities with an occasional glimpse of normality that underscores the strange. McAvoy carries the film, though the rest of the cast provide plenty of good moments. I didn't find the film that poignant, even in the last act, but it is compelling throughout.
Rated 02 Sep 2020
15
2nd
Unwatchable dross. I have to admit, this is a film that I didnt watch more than about 20 minutes of, so my review is not worth much, but it is a reminder to me that this sort of glorification of being "super bad" makes me want to throw up. As Superargo says more eloquently that I could be be bothered, who gives a shit? Was there a twist? I simply could give a damn.
Rated 06 Oct 2020
84
82nd
Trainspotting'in yazarı olan Irvine Welsh'in aynı isimli bir başka romanından uyarlanan Filth, "ilik gibi film" tanımının bizzat karşılığı. McAvoy'ın performansı o kadar güzel ki Shamalayan'ın Split filmi için McAvoy'ı seçmesinin en büyük nedeni bu olmalı izlenimini veriyor.
Rated 09 Oct 2020
6
41st
6+
Rated 15 Oct 2020
70
83rd
ger; [filth; drecksau]; ein drogenabhängiger polizist möchte beruflich aufsteigen und versucht mit sehr unsauberen methoden die kollegen niedrig zu halten.; (bipolar);
Rated 22 Feb 2021
77
58th
Başta, James McAvoy’un minimal kurgulu bağımsız filmlerinden biri sandım ama beklediğimden çok daha kompleks çıktı. Duygu geçişleri konusunda izlediğim en başarılı filmlerden biriydi. Öfkeyi de hüznü de çok sahici veriyor. İhtilafa düştüğüm tek konu oyunculuk hakkında. James McAvoy filmi o kadar iyi sırtlamış ki, filmin kerameti senaryosunda mı yoksa oyunculuğunda mı emin olamıyorum. Ama genel olarak memnun kaldığım, iyi ki izlemişim dediğim bir filmdi.
Rated 09 Aug 2021
64
58th
Host ratings: 72 / 71 / 83. Podcast review link: https://rydeorwrong.podcaster.de/rydeorwrong/folge-022-drecksau-2013-orig-filth-venom/
Rated 04 Sep 2022
61
44th
meh
Rated 18 Sep 2022
81
59th
Exactly as it's title, but but also kind of brilliant
Rated 09 Oct 2022
78
83rd
What a movie! I don't know how I missed this when it came out. Great soundtrack, wilder than Snatch, and clever and funny mixed with really dark and bleak.

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