La loi du plus fort

Titre original : Animal Kingdom

2010
14A
1h 53m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,2/10

61 k

MA NOTE

Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn, Jacki Weaver, and James Frecheville in La loi du plus fort (2010)

Welcome to the Melbourne crime underworld, where tensions are on the brink of exploding between felons and renegade cops. The Cody brothers, a gang of armed robbers, are in the process of initiating their teenage nephew Joshua 'J' into their frightening world after the death of his mother and under the watchful eye of his matriarchal grandmother, Smurf.

Liretrailer2 min 07 s

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Dark Comedy Tragedy True Crime Crime Drama Thriller

Dans une rue anonyme dans la banlieue de Melbourne, c'est là chez Cody. La profession de ses parents: criminels. L'irruption parmi eux de Joshua offre à la police le moyen de les infiltrer. ... Tout lireDans une rue anonyme dans la banlieue de Melbourne, c'est là chez Cody. La profession de ses parents: criminels. L'irruption parmi eux de Joshua offre à la police le moyen de les infiltrer. Joshua devra choisir son camp.Dans une rue anonyme dans la banlieue de Melbourne, c'est là chez Cody. La profession de ses parents: criminels. L'irruption parmi eux de Joshua offre à la police le moyen de les infiltrer. Joshua devra choisir son camp.

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,2/10

61 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Nommé pour 1 oscar
- 39 victoires et 60 nominations au total

Anecdotes
Prior to filming, Ben Mendelsohn and Luke Ford made a conscious decision not to speak to each other as actors to help with their portrayal of two antagonistic brothers.

Gaffes
Joshua J Cody is seen wearing a elastic hand prosthetic starting at around 00:01:19 - 00:02:19 the next scene shows his hand as normal.

Citations
Detective Randall Roache: Look I know you got a problem Janine, but I don't see how this mess your boys are in has got anything to do with me. So if you've called me in here to see if there are some strings I can pull in your way of course. Is that what this is about?
Janine Cody: Hey Randall, before you go on, this boy who's currently being looked after, tell me if you agree with this, this boy who's being looked after, he knows who you are. And you know how these things go they're gonna ask him all sorts of questions about everything he's ever seen or done. Everyone he's ever met, the whole schmozzle. And you've done some bad things sweetie, haven't you? I want this part to be clear this is not about you doing me a favor or me blackmailing you or anything like that. It's just a bad situation for everyone. Ezra here's got the address, it shouldn't be too hard to set up a raid on the house. There'd be reasonable grounds, what with all the strange activity, the comings and goings, day and night, one of the neighbors might've seen a gun or something. This is your area of expertise, I'm not trying to tell you how to suck eggs. What do you think?
Detective Randall Roache: I really don't see how anything can be done, Janine.
Janine Cody: Randall, I feel sick about this. I'm not happy at all, not one little bit. But we do what we have to do, we do what we must. Just because we don't wanna do something doesn't mean it can't be done.

Connexions
Featured in At the Movies: Summer Special 2010/11 (2010)

Bandes originales
All Out of Love
Written by Graham Russell & Clive Davis
Performed by Air Supply
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Commentaire en vedette

9/10

Excellent!

One of those movies that grabs you from the excellent opening credits as the camera pans over security camera stills of a gang of Melbourne thugs robbing banks. The audience, which was rustling noisy junk food through the previews, fell silent very quickly.

Jackie Weaver as the Matriarch of this crime family was amazing.

It felt a little "talkie" until about half way through, but there is tension right from the beginning that carries you through. Every character is connected to every other as if by springs quivering with tension or compression and the movie really delivers holding the resolution to the final frame where everything shifts into a new alignment.

I really enjoyed Animal Kingdom, it does not glamorize the life of these crims the way Underbelly or Sopranos does, and the cops reflect the dirty history of the Melbourne's finest too (Guy Pearce reprising his role in LA Confidential as a rare Mr Clean). Overall I think David Simon (The Wire) would approve of Animal Kingdom.

Anyone who has wondered how murderers can be loved by their Moms (isn't that most everyone?) should see this movie, it isn't a TV experience it really works well on the big screen.