Movie review | “Luther: The Fallen Sun” a grander, but sillier version of show (via thknwco)
| The Ohio News-Herald and The Morning JournalIdris Elba’s John Luther finally has made it to the big screen.
In its opening moments, “The Fallen Sun” takes us back in time slightly, to a bit of extortion that leads to a spot on a road that quickly becomes a crime scene. It soon is visited by Luther, and although he becomes determined to find a man who’s gone missing from the scene, Luther’s legal troubles catch up with him before he can do so.
Over the phone, Luther gets the coldest of shoulders from his replacement, DCI Odette Raine , who has no respect for the law-breaker and wants to see him locked up again as quickly as possible. However, more receptive to Luther’s requests for help from inside the police department is his old boss, Martin Schenk , who returns to the office as a consultant after having retired.
For much of its two-hour-plus runtime, “The Fallen Sun” is an entertaining affair with high but reasonable stakes. Like many TV-to-movie transitions, though, this one ultimately goes too big, culminating in an elaborate set piece that is hard to take all that seriously. And, of course, viewers of the show know how compelling Elba has been as Luther, and nothing’s changed here. Elba continues to do the driven, psychologically damaged lawman quite well.
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