'Surge': Film Review — Aneil Karia's unhinged London crime pic offers an unconventional showcase for Ben Whishaw, says GuyLodge
”: a blinking, buzzing, flashing clatter of hyper-accelerated impulses, chicken-fried synapses and staggered hypnic jerks that never culminate in sleep. You wouldn’t expect stillness from a film called “Surge,” and in that respect only does Whishaw zig where you expect him to zig — to say nothing of his character, a humdrum airport worker who one day snaps in spectacularly feral fashion, embarking on the unlikeliest of London crime sprees.
For Karia, who followed up his BAFTA-nominated short “Work” with impressively sleek work on Netflix’s “Top Boy,” this is an auspicious big-screen arrival that ought to beckon bigger assignments requiring the same fast, screw-loose dynamism. Another short of his, 2013’s “Beat,” provided the blueprint for “Surge”: Also starring Whishaw as a social outcast testing the limits of acceptable human behavior, it was a contained firecracker that effectively burned through its idea in 12 minutes.
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