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ThrillerDrama

Honour

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A story centered on a young woman targeted by her family for an "honour killing" and the bounty hunter who takes the job.

Release Date : 2014-04-04

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Code Red

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Aiysha Hart

Character Name : Mona

Original Name : Aiysha Hart

Gender : Female

Paddy Considine

Character Name :

Original Name : Paddy Considine

Gender : Male

Faraz Ayub

Character Name : Kasim

Original Name : Faraz Ayub

Gender : Male

Shubham Saraf

Character Name : Adel

Original Name : Shubham Saraf

Gender : Male

Harvey Virdi

Character Name : Mother

Original Name : Harvey Virdi

Gender : Female

Nikesh Patel

Character Name : Tanvir

Original Name : Nikesh Patel

Gender : Male

William Ruane

Character Name : Big Yin

Original Name : William Ruane

Gender : Male

Paulina Boneva

Character Name : Train Passenger

Original Name : Paulina Boneva

Gender : Male

Adam Smith

Character Name : Train Passenger

Original Name : Adam Smith

Gender : Male

Claire Brown

Character Name : Nurse

Original Name : Claire Brown

Gender : Female

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-06-04

When young "Mona" (Aiysha Hart) bravely decides to walk away from her arranged marriage - made when she was but a child - and run away with her boyfriend "Tanvir" (Nikesh Patel), her family decide that she must be stopped, and pretty much at all costs. To that end her mother and police officer brother "Kasim" (Faraz Ayub) enlist the help of an un-named, and particularly odious bounty hunter played by Paddy Considine who takes on the job. Along the way, though, he begins to have a bit of a change of heart and that's where the story gets a little bit more interesting - perhaps he will even end up helping her out? This really isn't a very nice film to watch. It is full of hatred and loathing that is possibly made more potent because the mother is the most unsympathetic of characters in this nest of intolerance and religious restriction. What really lets it down, though, is the acting. Nobody here is really very good; the supporting cast deliver their performances with very little confidence or style - their lack of experience is writ large and that drags the film down frequently. There is no subtlety or panache to the production. The angry rock-style score, the weak and derivative dialogue and the lacklustre direction deliver a thing of disappointing mediocrity. The substance of these ghastly familial "honour" killings is thrown under the bus of over-dramatisation leaving us with something that could have done so much more to illustrate just how, even now, women from some communities are considered little better than chattels. Pity.