“City of Dim Lights” is obviously not the most popular and successful film, if there is only one review on the search and that is negative. Which, in my opinion, is not very true.
I guess I just guessed with the mood and the choice of the movie.
The whole film is filled with an atmosphere of loneliness. The main characters have no meaning in life, do not feel alive. The atmosphere is oppressive, hopeless, depressive, almost all the action takes place at night, the views of the London slums sometimes seem wild, but perhaps because London for me begins and ends with a clock tower.
The name of Pete Travis for the first time I hear, except for the “lights” nothing from his filmography, but overall satisfied.
“City of Dim Lights” is not a thrash action movie, not a thriller, but rather a criminal drama.
The protagonist Tomi Akhtar is a slightly controversial character, his profession seems to be at odds with his character. He doesn’t want to be an American hero, where the hero goes, and everything explodes behind him. But he has past and present, there is drama, there is a woman he has loved all his life, there are habits, father, environment, he is worked out "from" and "to". Reese Ahmed played level. But honestly, the rest just did not notice, maybe because seventy percent of screen time you can see his back and smoking cigarette.
Especially the music. She made this film, she created the right atmosphere, not annoying, but was, it seems, continuous the whole film.
Who's doing this, the cameraman? Some transitions were out of place and looked cheap.
Well, the denouement pumped up, which made the story a little more real.
A movie for an amateur. Or the mood.
It was an overestimation, and yet
7 out of 10