The Guilty

Full Analysis at https://www.spotamovie.com/ - Introduction - The Guilty is an American movie released in 2021. It lasts for one hour and thirty minutes, and it belongs to the categories of Crime, Psychological Drama and Thriller. Its the American remake of the 2018 Danish film Den Skyldige. The film takes place in one single day, mostly in one location. Its intense, full of tensions, and wont make you bored. Jake Gyllenhaal does a fantastic job in the role of Joe Baylor. The director Antoine Fuqua delivered an enjoyable movie, with some good metaphors and enforcing pace in the story. - The Story - Joe Baylor is a policeman working at the 911. He is living a challenging moment in his life, and one day he receives a call that will ch...

The Guilty is a gripping experience but runs out of steam before crossing the finish line.

Jake Gyllenhaal did such a fantastic job in this film. The complex emotion that he displayed here was an absolute clinic on acting. He transitioned from shock to anger to sadness with ease, demonstrating the true emotions of a person dealing with a difficult situation while simultaneously being haunted by the past. It was brilliant the way he carried the entire film with just him, his phone, and the same dispatcher room for 90 minutes. Gyllenhaal wasn't the only one who was excellent but the entire ensemble of actors doing voice work over the phone were incredibly solid.

I really enjoyed the story of this film; we've seen the whole one man act...

The Guilty is director Antoine Fuqua's third foray into the, so to speak, internal affairs of the Los Angeles Police Department, and while it doesn't quite reach the same level of virtuosity as Training Day (or, for that matter, Brooklyn's Finest), it stands as irrefutable proof that the crime thriller is the one genre that Fuqua can always fall back on (case in point, The Guilty is Fuquas follow-up to the dismal Infinite).

Unlike its spiritual predecessors, The Guilty avoids the city mean streets which is not to say that what happens in them doesnt affect the plot , unfolding exclusively, at least the part that we see, in an emergency call center.

Joe Baylor (Jake Gyllenhaal), a police officer demoted to emergency 911 operator, re...

A film that for the first 1h is a very good thriller but in the remaining minutes it is very silly and confusing and ruins the previous hour.