Innocent The film “Five fingers” still went a thorny way to get from a limited release to many countries, although perhaps it would have been banned in the East if not watched to the end. And all this thanks to the fact that it played Ryan Phillippe, who still has a tail of fame after “Cruel Games”, although, as the actor did not try to throw off the role of a heartthrob, everyone remembers him first of all only for the above film; then there is Lawrence Fishburne, who also has a kind of actor’s “misfortune”, if he put on himself the image of Morpheus, he remained a mentor from “The Matrix”; there is also a recognizable second-plan actor Colm Meeney, who repeatedly found himself in prison projects, for example.
Laurence Fishburne took a small risk with his money (he also co-produced Five Fingers), as the plot of the film did not require much. The lion’s share of the picture takes place in a closed space in the presence of the same scenery and occasionally changing details of the entourage in no way affect the overall situation. Were shot and several scenes full-scale shooting, and they required only the correct selection and the operator of the picture Pole Alexander Grushinski did his job confidently and without any special flaws. A couple of scenes in a country house with a pleasant classical setting that could be filmed in one day of productive work, but that’s all. A few extra shots and "Five Fingers" are ready for release. With this description, you can understand that there is no special virtuosity in the film.
But when the main action of the film begins, impressionable people must be removed from the screens, otherwise nightmares can occur. No, "Five Fingers" is certainly not "Saw", known for its sophisticated cruelty, in "Five Fingers", based on the title, will just cut off these very limbs. Unpleasant, disgusting, the cry of the victim cuts the hearing, and preliminary sadistic games, arranged by the executioners, directly take the living, it becomes so scary that you realize with pleasure that you are not in the place of the main character, the main victim. To him, to Martin, played by Ryan Phillippe, there is sincere sympathy, and to executioners righteous anger. But at the beginning of the review, it was said that the film should be watched until the end, not everything is so trivial in the “Five Fingers” plot, otherwise everything would have slipped to some snuff video, tofu-tfu-tfu, so as not to see this ever in my life!
Ryan Phillippe is often criticized for fake acting, they say, the actor is clearly underworked and acts by improvisation right on the set. In "Five Fingers" I did not consider this, thanks to the way his character was spelled out, thanks to the situation in which he found himself, you look more at the fact that the picture ended with a happy ending, so that the executioners who captured Martin were about to be pinned down by some military men, or they simply let Martin go, because he does not know anything, he does not work for any organization, nor for the CIA, nor for a terrorist, he came on a humanitarian mission, and fell into the hands of monsters who declared him their inflamed brain their enemy; they simply cut off Martin's fingers! And presides over all this the biggest scoundrel - the hero of Lawrence Fishburne.
Lawrence Fishburne appears from the beginning as if he is sitting on a throne, thus demonstrating who is in charge. According to his orders, Martin is tortured, his impenetrable face reads cruelty, with which he exactly dealt with other victims. Chess, music, that's all he's been playing before Martin loses another finger. Fishburne succeeded in this character with all naturalness. How much anger he causes, but in an instant everything can change. Helped the hero Fishburne characters actors Said Tagmaoui and Gina Torres. The latter is even more hateful by its duplicity than Fishburne's hero: how does she, a beautiful woman, allow herself to participate in the massacre? No laws or regulations justify this woman. Nervously squeeze your fists from lawlessness and the soul is torn for the hero Phillippe.
The film is not for impressionable people, scenes of torture and preliminary sadistic games can not leave indifferent. But if that were the case, Five Fingers would be a nasty snuff imitation, but the film has an ambiguous ending that will force you to rethink what you see.
7 out of 10