Starring: Olivia Colman, Paul Thornley, Kate Fleetwood, Clare Burt, Janet Henfrey, Jenny Galloway, Gillian Bevan, Michael Shaeffer, James Doherty, Nick Holder, Anita Dobson, Mark Sheals, Ha Fowler, Linzi Hateley, Alecky Blythe, Tom Hardy
Certificate: 15
Genre: Musical
Awards: None
London Road is a musical based on the real accounts of the people who lived on the road during the Ipswich murders. It focuses more on how it affected the residents at the time and afterwards rather than the actual murders using the dialogue from recorded interviews to create songs about the events and feelings.
All the cast work really well in creating a believable neighbourhood with people you would find on a typical street. Olivia Coleman could arguably be called the lead but the cast are more of a chorus, which can cause characters to lack individuality but each is given a few unique opinions and lines to make them slightly different.
The irritating thing about London Road is the way that it has been marketed, both by its own posters and other parties, as being a Tom Hardy film due to his popularity. His part is more of a cameo than anything else and the fact that he is being so focused upon draws away from the other great performances and the uniqueness of the film.
The musical parts of the film are absolutely stunning. The songs aren't particularly memorable or catchy but they are based more on realism and show a group consensus of fear, suspicion and anger at the events that happened.
I would definitely recommend watching London Road as there is nothing like it to my knowledge and it does some really interesting things in order to make you think about people and the circumstances some are in.
*****Brilliant
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