Each characters in All the Devils Are Here are either untrustworthy, money fixated or reprehensible , sometimes all three but these are not politicians but a small gang of criminals led by Ronnie (Eddie Marsan) a world weary career criminal. He’s joined by Grady (Sam Claflin) whose first resort is always violence and the third member is the quiet Royce (Tienne Simon) far less experienced and far more malleable by the others. Having been instructed by Harold (Rory Kinnear) a higher on the food chain gangster than them but lower than the unseen Mr Reynolds who they are all working for, the gang carry out a bank heist and then retreat to an isolated cottage with Mr Reynolds accountant appropriately called Numbers (Burn Gordon) who has his own issues notably his Class A drug habit. It’s Numbers who is given the responsibility for the money locked up in the cottages one bedroom with him while they await orders from the boss. So whilst he whiles away his time imbibing heroin and listening to Cilla Black – it’s never made clear whether listening to her caterwauling her way through a cover version of Cher’s ‘Gypsies, tramps and thieves has driven him to it but it surely must be a factor for anyone locked in an isolated cottage for an indeterminate amount of time with the Scouse ginger squawker’s records for company.
Under the impression they’re only there for a week its inevitable that bit by bit tensions are on the rise all of the them. Grady, already having unnecessarily battered a guard at the heist is the one with the trigger hair temper and Ronnie wants away from him and the cottage asap whilst Royce finds his allegiances pulled in every direction.
That ‘thieves in the aftermath of a robbery’ is a well known one and this very much is a British sister piece to Reservoir Dogs as tension rise and tempers flair and like Tarantino’s film there are flashbacks to how each character came to be involved with Mr Reynolds criminal organisation. A great cast led by the always reliable Eddie Marsan sees Claflin unusually cast against type and he’s clearly relishing the opportunity to go full tilt loon and Burn Gordon is equally good as the accountant whose number must be up as the guardian of the money. As a British gangster film this is a decent and enjoyable low budget worthy addition to the genre.
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We chatted with actor Burn Gordon and director Barnaby Roper about drugs, violence and Cilla Black!
Here’s the All the Devils Are Here trailer…..
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