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Michael is a ruthless undercover coptargeting London's most violent drug traffickers. He and his team aren't above taking their cut from the criminals they're charged with taking on -but when he's threatened with exposure, he's forced to rapidly shift his loyalties and sell out his allies in order to stay alive. Gerard Johnson's ultraviolent thriller - part Nicolas Winding Refn, part Abel Ferrara,and featuring a propulsive score by British new wave legends The The - is a brutal, neon-colored portrait of a man far beyond salvation.
[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.
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-vérité ruggedness.
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.
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.