Looted

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Looted

2019

1h 29m

Crime

Drama

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Rob (Charley Palmer Rothwell - Legend), loves driving and stealing cars, living his life at a hundred miles an hour in the cash-starved port town he calls home. He shares a house with his dying father (Tom Fisher - The Young Victoria) who thinks he's out job hunting. Rob manages to keep his two worlds perfectly separated until best mate Leo (Thomas Turgoose - This Is England), gets him involved in a bigger, riskier job which goes terribly wrong. With his relationship with his distant father in shreds and betrayed by his best mate, unexpected hope comes from Leo's girlfriend Kasia (Morgane Polanski - Vikings).

Mark Kermode

Kermode & Mayo's Film Review

An impressive first feature from someone worth watching.

Nov 12, 2020

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Kevin Maher

Times (UK)

Pannevis also shoots nicely, filming Hartlepool in epic wide shots, and thoroughly removes the kitchen sink from kitchen-sink drama.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 7, 2020

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Danny Leigh

Financial Times

The movie is raw, elegiac and, for van Pannevis, filled with promise.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 6, 2020

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Harry Solomons

Loud and Clear Reviews

Looted may stick to very well-trodden ground, but outstanding acting performances bring a surprising emotional depth.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jan 8, 2025

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David Parkinson

Radio Times

The Hartlepool setting offers some atmospheric views, which Pannevis cannily contrasts with increasingly claustrophobic visuals as the gang run out of options.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 21, 2021

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Jesse Hassenger

NME (New Musical Express)

Splits the difference between catharsis and more open-ended lyricism.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 5, 2021

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Raw gritty drama well written and well acted the director has a future in films

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Rob is living in a seaside town, spending most of his time looking after his dying father. When he leaves, his father believes he is going to job interviews or picking up odd jobs here and there to bring in the money. Unbeknown to his father, his son has a talent for stealing cars with his best mate Leo, the only way he has found to make any money in a town with a dying docks trade. When Leo offers him a job that is far riskier than anything they have done before but for a lot more money, Rob has some tough choices to make because he knows should anything go wrong it won't just be his life that is changed forever. Looted is a decent British film that's not just about low level crime in a dying post-industrial coastal town but also about the broken relationship between father and son and the tragic circumstances that force them back together. It's a coming of age story, crime thriller and a character study of a young man facing a crisis of conscience. It's an entertaining film with an especially tense final act as the consequences of the lead characters' actions come to the surface.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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Rob (Charley Palmer Rothwell - Legend), loves driving and stealing cars, living his life at a hundred miles an hour in the cash-starved port town he calls home. He shares a house with his dying father (Tom Fisher - The Young Victoria) who thinks he's out job hunting. Rob manages to keep his two worlds perfectly separated until best mate Leo (Thomas Turgoose - This Is England), gets him involved in a bigger, riskier job which goes terribly wrong. With his relationship with his distant father in shreds and betrayed by his best mate, unexpected hope comes from Leo's girlfriend Kasia (Morgane Polanski - Vikings).

Director: Rene van Pannevis
Producer: Jennifer Eriksson, Jessie Mangum
Screenwriter: Rene van Pannevis, Kefi Chadwick
Production Co: BFI Film Fund, Silk Screen Pictures, Microwave, Thought Experiment, BBC Films
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: British English
Runtime: 1h 29m