A thriller cantered on a serial killer in a rundown
'Tony' is a sort of a hard edged Mike Leigh film meets 'Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer' of type, with rather slow unsatisfying results.
Peter Ferdindo gives an interesting promising performance as the titled serial killer, but sadly is not given enough in the script to fully flesh out his inner demons, and the problems he has with interacting with society.
There are good executed scenes here. The main stand out is a well structured scene involving the dismiss of a group of drug addicts, which is a well structured piece of cinema, with a nice mix of loner ramblings from Peter Ferdindo, and the pending danger of a man basically trying to interact with sociality and his obsection with murder, all brought to a head with grisly outcomes, and a nice point of view camera shot of the drug addict trapped in a room whilst Tony goes about his serial killer ways.
Problems lie with the fact that there is very little explanation also the reasons for the murders, nor is there any development of the lead which leaves both the character Tony and all that is going on around him some what stale.
Sadly the restrictions and pressures within the genre make for some rather silly conclusions to a film which is like its lead Tony, odd ball and doesn’t fit in with genre pieces of type.
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