Jimmy Rose once again reclined, he went to prison so long ago that he has no idea about such vital things as a selfie stick, but what is there a selfie, he does not know how to turn on speakerphone! Dinosaur! Fossilized shard of a past era, he lives with such outdated concepts as family, honor, love. You can imagine family! What an atavism, and this in our, affectionate era, when the overwhelming number of British men at least once learned the happiness of same-sex love!
While Jimmy enjoyed the hospitality of Her Majesty and enjoyed the comfort of English prisons, life changed dramatically. The wife is desperate to wait for her husband’s return, and Jimmy openly declares that I don’t seem to love you anymore. The son grew up, turned into a greasy bastard, openly despises the father - a criminal, considers him a loser and a walking nuisance. The granddaughter, who previously drove horses made from food around the dining table, found new toys and chases a syringe with heroin through the vein. The supervisory officer requires a job, and become part of a docile herd, working full time.
Stunned by the scale of the problems that have fallen on him, Jimmy tries to act in a familiar, old-school manner, and ... worsens an already bad situation. How does Jimmy Rose get out of trouble?
What's the movie about? An old criminal trying to start a new life? Generational conflict? That too, but first and foremost, this movie is about love. Jimmy loves his wife Rose, loves her as passionately as he did thirty years ago, she is the only woman in his life, he loves her so much that he is willing to divorce her if she is happy, even with another man. Jimmy is old-fashioned, clumsy, has no future, the only thing he can give Rose is his love. Is this enough for a woman who is tired of waiting for the knock on the door and the subsequent screams of “open up, police” and wants to live enjoying all the benefits of this miracle, given to us for unknown merits, called “life”?
Jimmy's granddaughter got involved with the wrong guy, and got into debt to bad people. Jimmy can resolve the situation in the usual way, but it will lead him back to prison, which means the collapse of his attempts to restore the relationship with Rose. Call the police for help? Jimmy Rose, the man with more than one walk? An old criminal to turn snitch? Torture, as the classic used to say. The ending will surprise many.
This film was directed by Adrian Shergold (Reservoir Dogs, Faith, Low Winter Sun), a half-mad, elderly gentleman in glasses, experiencing painful pleasure, killing the main characters of his films (Reservoir Dogs, Low Winter Sun). Shergold invited Ray Winston (Jimmy) and Amanda Redman (Jackie) to star. This is their third collaboration, and those who love Winston as much as I do remember the beautiful Sexual Beast in which Ray flaunted yellow trunks tightly wrapping his powerful charms. Amanda played Didi, for the love of whom Gal killed Don, and took part in the robbery. In “The Trials of Jimmy Rose” we see this couple again, Ray is blustered, breathless, ramming obstacles with a powerful belly, Amanda is also not younger, and the story is the same – a criminal does not want to go back to the old one.
Bottom line.
This film has everything – intrigue, violence, true friendship, forgiving love, a sense of acute pain. Shergold made a very personal, sentimental film in the scenery of a crime drama.
10 out of 10