Distinctive cultural accents, however, aren’t quite enough to electrify this gangster thriller’s familiar good-lad-gone-bad narrative.
The British gangster thriller is, by now, a subgenre with mostly fixed conventions of storytelling, style and sound, all of which tend towards dim-lit scuzziness — so credit to Idris Elba for giving it a welcome shot of color, in more ways than one, in “Yardie.” Based on Victor Headley’s vastly popular, boundary-breaking 1992 crime […]
