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Relay

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In RELAY, Riz Ahmed plays a world class "fixer" who specializes in brokering lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten their ruin. He keeps his identity a secret through meticulous planning and always follows an exacting set of rules. But when a message arrives one day from a potential client (Lily James), needing his protection just to stay alive, the rules quickly start to change.

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Robert Daniels Screen International Relay falters, unfortunately, the second Mackenzie distrusts the viewer — pulling a twist that neither makes sense nor feels emotionally right. Sep 13, 2024 Full Review Nicolas Rapold Financial Times Director David Mackenzie brilliantly turns the streets and apartments of New York into a workaday battleground... Sep 12, 2024 Full Review A.A. Dowd Digital Trends It’s a reasonably smart thriller that dumbs itself down as it goes, replacing Hitchcockian chess moves with generic gunplay in the final stretch. Rated: 2.5/5 Sep 11, 2024 Full Review Alex Papaioannou InSession Film Relay is more than a film about whistleblowers. Instead, it delves into the murky lines of morality in spaces where whistleblowing occurs. Rated: C Oct 23, 2024 Full Review Erik Childress Movie Madness Podcast Up until the film nearly derails itself entirely during its climax it is a slick, paranoid cat-and-mouse thriller with Riz Ahmed selling it all with very few spoken words and the fastest typing fingers in recorded history. Rated: 3/4 Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Nate Adams The Movie Sleuth Makes for a nifty thriller whose ambitions actually get in its own way down the final stretch, where a last second twist produces more eye rolls than satisfaction. Rated: B- Sep 28, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis In RELAY, Riz Ahmed plays a world class "fixer" who specializes in brokering lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten their ruin. He keeps his identity a secret through meticulous planning and always follows an exacting set of rules. But when a message arrives one day from a potential client (Lily James), needing his protection just to stay alive, the rules quickly start to change.
Director
David Mackenzie
Producer
Basil Iwanyk, Gillian Berrie, David Mackenzie, Teddy Schwarzman
Screenwriter
Justin Piasecki
Production Co
Black Bear, Thunder Road Pictures, Sigma Films
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 52m