Muscle

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Muscle

2019

1h 50m

Mystery & Thriller

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An unhappy office worker's life is gradually taken over by Terry, his new, very hands-on personal trainer.

Ian Freer

Empire Magazine

12/09/2020

4/5

Muscle takes the trappings of a macho crime flick and informs them with sensitivity and smarts, perfectly played by Cavan Clerkin and Craig Fairbrass. It packs all the punch and power of a whey protein shake.

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Ellen E Jones

Guardian

12/04/2020

3/5

This is Johnson's first film without his cousin and collaborator Peter Ferdinando in the starring role, but Muscle's two leads prove every bit as tuned into his uniquely bleak vision of male interaction.

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Kevin Maher

The Times (UK)

12/04/2020

4/5

The B-list hard case and straight-to-video action star Craig Fairbrass (see the Rise of the Foot Soldier franchise) is utterly reinvented in this bleakly compelling drama about toxic masculinity run rampant.

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Trevor Johnston

Radio Times

06/24/2021

3/5

Nevertheless, this is a striking, distinctive vision of how far some men will go to overcompensate for their vulnerabilities.

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

12/11/2020

3/5

Striking monochrome cinematography lends a silvery edge to this low-budget British drama. So while the movie has the usual soapy crime-thriller tone, its ambitious imagery encourages the audience to look deeper.

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David G. Hughes

electric ghost

12/06/2020

A fraught, honest, and self-scrutinising working-out (quite literally in this case) of the ambivalence that many men have towards their own sense of manhood, agency, and self-worth.

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Tom D

03/25/2024

A (very) poor mans Fight Club

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Synopsis

An unhappy office worker's life is gradually taken over by Terry, his new, very hands-on personal trainer.

Director: Gerard Johnson
Producer: Ed Barratt, Frédéric Fiore, Matthew James Wilkinson
Screenwriter: Gerard Johnson
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: British English
Runtime: 1h 50m