McCanick | Film review - David Morse’s loose-cannon cop blows his top

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"Tortured anti-hero"

David Morse’s loose-cannon Philadelphia cop McCanick blows his top on his 59th birthday when he learns that the young hustler (the late Cory Monteith from Glee in his last film role) he sent to jail seven years earlier is back on the streets. But just what has lit his fuse?

This gritty crime drama is frustratingly obscure, cutting back and forth between past and present as it drops clues about its tortured anti-hero. But when we finally reach the film’s big reveal the payoff is disappointingly lame.

Certificate 15. Runtime 92 mins. Director Josh C Waller

McCanick debuts on Sky Cinema Premiere on Tuesday 21 February and is available on Blu-ray & DVD from Signature Entertainment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx9-cMZ9J_8

A film critic for over 25 years, Jason admits the job can occasionally be glamorous – sitting on a film festival jury in Portugal; hanging out with Baz Luhrmann at the Chateau Marmont; chatting with Sigourney Weaver about The Archers – but he mostly spends his time in darkened rooms watching films. He’s also written theatre and opera reviews, two guide books on Rome, and competed in a race for Yachting World, whose great wheeze it was to send a seasick film critic to write about his time on the ocean waves. But Jason is happiest on dry land with a classic screwball comedy or Hitchcock thriller.