DanDare
The Shadow Line is a heavily stylised, dark and intricately plotted thriller from writer and director Hugo Blick.
Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Detective Inspector Jonah Gabriel. A dogged cop with a bullet lodged in his brain but maybe with a dark past.
Christopher Eccleston is criminal Joseph Bede. He has built up a fruit and flower supply business that acts as a front for drug smuggling but he wants to go straight.
Gabriel comes into Bede's radar after the death of Harvey Wrattan, a drug importer.
After his death, many disparate people are fighting to take over Wrattan's empire.
There is an heightened brooding atmosphere in Blick's drama. It also has a absurdly black comic touch to it even in the violence.
There are many side ...