Jason Statham is not normally the man you might expect to see in a Steve Knight drama about London’s seedy underbelly. But then, Knight’s scripts – as directed in the past by the likes of Stephen Frears and David Cronenberg – have always boasted a little edge and violence. So it somehow seems more natural for The Stath to star in Knight’s directorial debut, Hummingbird.
We say “debut” even though Knight called the shots on a few episodes of Jasper Carrott/Robert Powell police spoof series The Detectives, but then this is a little bit different.
Hummingbird finds Statham as Joseph “Joey” Jones, a former Special Forces soldier who tries to avoid a court martial and ends up homeless on the street.
Looking to get himself sorted once more, Joey breaks into a rich businessman’s apartment and attempts to re-invent himself. But once more he gets dragged into London’s criminal underworld.
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We say “debut” even though Knight called the shots on a few episodes of Jasper Carrott/Robert Powell police spoof series The Detectives, but then this is a little bit different.
Hummingbird finds Statham as Joseph “Joey” Jones, a former Special Forces soldier who tries to avoid a court martial and ends up homeless on the street.
Looking to get himself sorted once more, Joey breaks into a rich businessman’s apartment and attempts to re-invent himself. But once more he gets dragged into London’s criminal underworld.
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Source-Empire
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