Power is so hungry 😱🥶
What happens when a group of people is so hungry for power? It's like two elephants fighting.
If you like mob movies, movies with lots of action, gunshot, no mercy kind of feeling then try Mobland🤝
What would you do for the people you love—if loving them meant stepping into darkness? This was what was on my mind when I finished watching this movie.
There are people who wield so much power that they'll do anything to keep it.
Watching MobLand, my emotions were like weather—sunny then storming. I found myself cheering for Harry’s silent strength. I felt dread when Conrad planned another ruthless act. I felt sad for Jan (Joanne Froggatt), Harry’s wife, caught between loyalty and love, forced to ask for counseling in a world that thrives on violence.
The film is one tense scene to another, a tense negotiation, a single shot, a room that blows up in violence--that had me hung up on it immediately. I had to find out: Who is the man behind the gun?... What is this story?
MobLand is all about the Harrigan crime family, an Irish dynasty ruling the underground of London. Conrad Harrigan (Pierce Brosnan), the patriarch, and Maeve (Helen Mirren), the matriarch, hope to grow, but everything goes wrong due to a reckless night with their grandson, Eddie.
Enter Harry Da Souza (Tom Hardy) , the cleaner-up of messes in the family. His life is structured anarchy: defend the Harrigans, fix things, hush up trouble. He has a code, "If I said I would do something… it is done"
Yet as family rivalries come to a boil and family loyalty breaks, Harry is driven into moral grayness.
It is not shoot-outs only. It is boardroom gossip, family counseling, backstabbing in the locked bathrooms.
The emotional climax was the season finale- betrayals were uncovered, alliances were severed. My heart was beating, my chest was tight. It was at this moment that I realized that this show was not all about style, it was about soul.
It caused me to ask myself this question: What would you do (to) the people that you love--if loving them meant entering into darkness?
MobLand is your show if you are in the mood to watch an action show with emotional levels that are more than just skin deep, where family loyalty, moral ambiguity, and killer visuals meet.
Watch it because the characters grew-in-my-skin, especially Harry, played with brooding panache by Tom Hardy.
Thumbnail is designed by me on pixelLab and other images are screenshot from the movie
