This nasty horror sucks you into a grisly world of duplicitous cops and brutish criminals prepared to butcher anyone who gets in their way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 29, 2021

Gritty, hypnotic, drenched in neon lights and shadow, Hyena is a tour-de-force, both as a whole and in terms of Peter Ferdinando's performance.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 4, 2019

Johnson is adept at carrying all the baggage that come with such a meaty thriller, and the concluding tragedy comes across with a novelistic sensibility.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2019

The film's hand-held camerawork doesn't build the kind of visual tension a good action movie needs, and Johnson doesn't shape memorable characters so much as sweaty chess pieces, too many of them to keep track of.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 28, 2018

[This] drama is a much more bleak, much more angry, much more dirty, and surprisingly more violent film than most of its antisocial fraternity usually ever aspire to.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 22, 2016

A vision of a societal underbelly rife with moral ambiguity, unflinching violence and a bunch of people you certainly wouldn't invite over for tea...

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 3, 2016

Ferdinando is great as a morally ambiguous man on the edge who tries to do the right thing, only to find it's too little, too late. But the script is heavy handed and clich-ridden.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2015

Johnson has created a successfully gritty Brit flick in the mould of Sexy Beast with the over-saturated neon visuals of 온라인카지노추천's Red Riding and Drive.

| Aug 17, 2015

By the end, as the camera lingers on Peter Ferdinando's phlegmy, leaking face, Hyena has done something uncommon: It has frightened you.

| May 13, 2015

Moral platitudes aside, Hyena is an interesting and frequently intense look at a bunch of seedy guys doing seedy things until real-life consequences show up to bite them in the arse.

| Original Score: B- | May 12, 2015

[Hyena] isn't afraid to get its hands dirty, and neither are any of its characters.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | May 8, 2015

Hyena's convoluted tale is given a fresh coat of grime by Johnson's direction, which favors handheld cinematography -- often tracking its protagonists from behind -- that gives the action a pseudo-vrit ruggedness.

| May 1, 2015

I suspect that anyone who actually makes it to the bitter end will be enraged by what it does and does not contain.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 1, 2015

"Hyena" feels like a throwback to the tough-as-nails British gangster flicks of the 1970s.

| Apr 30, 2015

The kind of gory British policier from which you come away with the queasy feeling that the world is essentially a butcher shop ruled by greed, murder, cruelty and lust.

| Apr 30, 2015

Johnson aspires to make Hyena into the stuff of classical tragedy, yet he telegraphs Michael's inward transformation way too soon.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 30, 2015

At its most palatable the film recalls "The Long Good Friday"; at its harshest, it's a grotty cousin to "The Bad Lieutenant." There's enough filmmaking intelligence to guide "Hyena" through its worst excesses, however.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2015

Mr. Johnson isn't out just for blood, or sociology, but the clever hybrid he creates is wholly entertaining.

| Apr 30, 2015

While the movie keeps tightening the noose around Logan's neck, any interest in whether he'll manage to escape being arrested or killed is largely academic.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 30, 2015

Beautifully shot, feverishly edited and also benefiting from the right score and authentic locations, Hyena is that kind of ugly film that refuses to let you turn away.

| Apr 29, 2015