What's happening?

Video Sources 0 Views Report Error

  • Watch traileryoutube.com
  • Source 1123movies
  • Source 2123movies
  • Source 3123movies
  • Source 4123movies
  • Source 5123movies
  • Source 6123movies
  • Source 7123movies
  • Source 8123movies
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 2009 123movies

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 2009 123movies

An epic tale of murder, corruption and obsession.Feb. 28, 2009102 Min.
         
Your rating: 0
5 1 vote

Synopsis

Watch: Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 2009 123movies, Full Movie Online – In 1974, Eddie Dunford, comes home from South England and gets a job as a cub reporter for the Yorkshire Post. A schoolgirl has gone missing, and Eddie suspects it’s one of several crimes dating back six years; the police think not and blame gypsies. Eddie digs; the police stonewall him then two of them beat him after he visits the widowed mother of one of the girls missing for a few years. When a child’s body turns up at a construction site of local building magnate John Dawson, Eddie has another thread to pull. By now, he’s begun an affair with Paula, the widowed mom, and he suspects collusion among Dawson, the police, and his newspaper – but what are they covering up?.
Plot: Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.
Smart Tags: #evil_cop #evil_policeman #evil_man #human_monster #gloomy #brutality #strangulation #shot_multiple_times #ejected_from_a_moving_vehicle #gun_held_to_head #handcuffs #wristwatch #bandaged_hand #rain #out_of_focus #extreme_close_up #false_confession #nightmare #door_closed_on_hand #police_brutality #corrigated_glass


Find Alternative – Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 2009, Streaming Links:

123movies | FMmovies | Putlocker | GoMovies | SolarMovie | Soap2day


Ratings:

6.9/10 Votes: 13,022
100% | RottenTomatoes
N/A | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 208 Popularity: 7.334 | TMDB

Reviews:

Everyone has demons…
Don’t let the 1974 fool you, this year merely indicates the time period in which this British crime drama is set. The first film of a trilogy, 1974 sets up the desolate Yorkshire town which has again been struck with the grizzly and brutal murder of a young girl. This makes her merely an entry in string of disappearances over the previous decade. Despite atmosphere thick enough to ski upon, this movie fails to offer much compelling and is a tough slog not only due to its grimy nature but also its convoluted narrative.

What begin with an investigation into a young girls disappearance, gives way to a murder, then to police corruption and bureaucratic cover-ups. Dropped squarely in the center is amateur journalist Eddie Dunford (Andre Garfield) whose combination of determination and coyness take him down a dark road. I will not even delve into the plot more than I have, as not only is it too complex to adequately lay out, but I am still trying to sort it all out myself.

While the performances are uniformly good, the characters are thoroughly unlikeable. Even our protagonist Eddie has a smarmy quality to him that makes it difficult for a real connection to be achieved. This is so with much of Red Riding: 1974, we are kept at arms length; never able to engage with any of the players nor the grief and depression the town is experiencing. Such is amplified further by the engrained ugliness at every corner which inhibits any discernible depth; everyone has demons, everything is wrong and nobody is happy. Thus, the instances of violence are muted by the grimness by which it is surrounded.

If you are really hankering for a dark tragic crime film starring Andrew Garfield, check out Boy-A; a supremely better and more resonant film. The highlight of the film for me was seeing Sean Bean again. His presence in films is an iota of what it should be and he gives one of the films best performances. Not having yet seen the following two instalments of this series I can not say with confidence this film will not be elevated when viewed in context. At this point, what I can say with confidence is Red Riding: 1974 was not an enjoyable experience. Perhaps, then, it was a success in its own right.

Read all my reviews simonsaysmovies.blogspot.com

Review By: Simon_Says_Movies
A rather failed adaption of a detective story from a book
Recap: Eddie, a young journalist, returns home to northern England to take a job at the newspaper his late father worked at. The very same day a young girl goes missing. Eddie learns that she is not the first, and that no one was caught when the other girls was murdered a few years ago. But Eddie’s editor is more concerned with keeping a good relationship with the local police than asking pointed questions and investigating a possible connection between the disappearings. Soon Eddie finds out that he might just be the only one interested in the truth.

Comments: A British detective mystery, told from the perspective of a journalist, it is told in an downplayed way without much use of any effects or even a quicker pace of narration. Actually quite dark it is not surprising to find it as adapted from a novel, but I strongly suspect that the story fits better in a book than on a screen. In the novel there is ample time to explore details, follow clues and leads and possibly end up in a few dead ends, and do a real investigation. In the movie, the story becomes pretty much straight forward without much subtlety or suspense. It is fairly easy to deduce who and what has happened, as very few alternatives is ever given.

So, without any uncertainties about the culprit, without any real effects or narration with intention to induce suspense, it becomes rather flat. Simply put, there is no thrill in this thriller.

For what appears to be a TV adaption of a novel it does sport an impressive cast though. The lead is played by Andrew Garfield and he has got good support from Rebecca Hall and Sean Bean. The later two’s appearances was perhaps the biggest surprise I got while watching this movie. So what I am saying, without having read it, I would go for the book, not the movie.

5/10

Review By: Enchorde

Other Information:

Original Title Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
Release Date 2009-02-28
Release Year 2009

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 42 min (102 min)
Budget 9000000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Crime, Drama, History
Director Julian Jarrold
Writer Tony Grisoni, David Peace
Actors Andrew Garfield, David Morrissey, John Henshaw
Country United Kingdom
Awards Won 3 BAFTA 5 wins & 10 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Film Lab North, Leeds, UK
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm (Fuji Eterna Vivid 160T 8643, Eterna 250D 8663, Eterna 500T 8673)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Super 16 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (blow-up)

Original title Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974
TMDb Rating 6.695 208 votes

Similar titles