365 Days. 365 Films.

When Steven Younger plants three bombs in three undisclosed locations in America, the FBI call in Henry Humphries (a.k.a. ‘H’) to interrogate him on the whereabouts of his nuclear weapons. H’s techniques are brutal and ‘unconstitutional’, but in the face of a nuclear war, anything goes.

This is a no holds barred thriller starring Michael Sheen (Younger), Samuel L. Jackson (H) and Carrie Ann Moss as Agent Brody; the ‘good cop’ to H’s ‘bad-ass cop’. Sheen is spectacular in this role as he manages to inspire fear, hatred and sympathy in the viewers, as well as bringing the film to life with his emotional portrayal of an extremist protester. After watching this film it is difficult to imagine anyone else playing the part of H because Jackson does it so well. He takes the film to a whole new level with his seemingly inhumane tactics and emotionless character, and Agent Brody subverts the primary genre of the film as a psychological thriller, turning it into a more grounded FBI action film and although these scenes are few and far between, the contrast of the two make for a very interesting movie.

The film takes a while to get going; playing around with the characters and revealing back stories in dribs and drabs. In the way this was done it would normally slow the pace of the rest of the film, but to characterize Brody and H in this way gives the audience a better understanding of their actions throughout, as well as making room for focus on Younger. Sheen’s character is really the focal point of the film and was a noticeably brave move for director Gregor Jordan to depict a terrorist as the focal point for sympathy within his direction. This angle separates this from similar films and is, in this way, a memorable film with scarring images and characters.