Also keep an ear out for cameos from Ethan Hawke and Peter Sarsgaard. Keough, in a (literally) quieter role, also commands in a vocal performance that’s never anything less than viscerally present.
It’s a role reminiscent of other classics of the actor-on-the-phone thriller subgenre, Colin Farrell in Phone Booth and Tom Hardy in Locke, but Gyllenhall also brings shades of a ruffled Raymond Chandler-like antihero. He’s great as this not entirely likeable man who may even have ulterior motives for riding to the rescue. So, is it the superior spin? Let’s put it this way, if you come to this Netflix remake first, you are going to be blown away by a hurricane-force performance from Gyllenhaal. To say too much more would be to spoil the film’s savage twists and turns. He goes above and beyond the call of duty – obsessively so – to piece together what appears to be a horrifying unfolding case of domestic violence. Her plight somehow manages to pull Joe out of his worst tendencies. Instead, we are drawn into a kind of filmed radio drama as a whispering caller ( Zola star Riley Keough) gets through in a state of panic and distress. None too happy about the situation, he’s passive (and not so passive) aggression personified in a 911 call centre during the California wildfires.Ī social distancing film for our times, there are few other on-screen roles to pull focus from Joe.
Gyllenhaal plays Joe, a cop who has been removed from active duty for reasons we are not immediately privy to. With its one-room set up and a supporting cast that’s heard but not seen, it leans hard on the actor’s screen presence and he doesn’t disappoint. There is snobby idea that US remakes of European movies invariably represent a step down in quality, but The Guilty captures the absolute thrill ride of the 2018 Swedish film of the same name, lit up by a bang-on-form Jake Gyllenhaal.
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