Synopsis
Clairvoyant femme fatale, Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men — one of whom she knows will be her murderer.
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Cast
- Amber HeardNicola Six
- Theo JamesGuy Clinch
- Jim SturgessKeith Talent
- Billy Bob ThorntonSamson Young
- Johnny DeppChick Purchase
- Cara DelevingneKath Talent
- Jaimie AlexanderHope
- Jason IsaacsMark Asprey
- Lily ColeTrish Shirt
- Gemma ChanPetronella
Recommendations
- 50
Screen Daily
London Fields overflows with interesting ideas but they are frequently buried under lurid fantasy sequences, blunt-edged satire and the sense that it is much more amused by its own wild daring than we are. - 42
The Playlist
Buried underneath the glop are interesting notions on reality, creation, and the nature of death. And thanks to its aesthetic, it's at least a very beautiful catastrophe. - 40
The Guardian
Novelistic, rich and awfully silly, London Fields – like Ben Wheatley’s take on High Rise - is a long-awaited adaptation of a popular and gloomily prophetic book, that seems unnecessary. - 40
The Telegraph
Heard, who certainly has the requisite physical allure for the part, puts in a decent enough turn as the enigmatic Six but, like her on-screen character, can seemingly do the nothing to prevent the brutal murder, either of herself, or of Amis’s bestseller. - 38
Movie Nation
It’s a neo-noir murder mystery capturing Heard at peak femme fatale in a tale observed, manipulated and told by a struggling writer (Billy Bob Thornton) for “the chaos.” “Chaos” doesn’t quite sum up the movie. But almost. - 30
Variety
[A] misbegotten mess. - 20
The Hollywood Reporter
So comprehensively does the film fail to represent the labyrinthian literary wonders of Amis’ book that it scarcely seems worthwhile to detail its universal shortcomings. - 20
Los Angeles Times
The aggressively awful London Fields is, once again, proof that not every successful novel should become a movie.
