APOSTLE

2018 | DIR. GARETH EVANS | REVIEW BY GLENN COCHRANE.

Gareth Evans was only 31-years old when he directed The Raid, a film that signalled the arrival of an important voice in cinema. That film and its sequel delivered a brand of action that, through its highly stylised violence and cinematic grace, took audiences to places rarely seen on the big screen. So incredible were those films that you could say he had all but sabotaged his own career; by setting the bar so bloody high, outdoing himself would be damn near impossible.​

His long awaited follow-up is a Netflix release titled Apostle and tells the story of a former Christian missionary (Dan Stevens, Downton Abbey, The Guest), who travels to an isolated Welsh island in 1905 to save his sister from the clutches of a mysterious cult. Learning of her kidnapping and demand for ransom, Thomas poses as a convert and new arrival to the island paradise, where the regular law of man is abandoned and the self-regulated society worships a goddess of the island, who is said to sustain health and wellbeing. Upon arrival he soon uncovers the island’s sinister secrets, and before having his chance to rescue his sister, he is forced to outsmart the three community founders before they sacrifice him and his sister.

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