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Montana (2014 film)

Montana
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Directed by Mo Ali
Produced by Mark Foligno
Screenplay by Jeremy Sheldon
Peter Lowe
Story by Peter Lowe
Starring McKell David
Lars Mikkelsen
Music by Pablo Clements
James Griffith
Toydrum
Cinematography Jean-Paul Seresin
Edited by Kim Gaster
Production
company
Entertainment One
Distributed by Entertainment One
Release date
  • December 11, 2014 (2014-12-11) (United Kingdom)
  • September 19, 2015 (2015-09-19) (United States)
Running time
108 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

Montana is a 2014 British action film set in the East End of London starring McKell David as the title character in his first lead role in a feature film. He has since been in the tv series Holby City as Lloyd Kramer. The soundtrack was composed by Toydrum.

A 14 year old drug runner called Montana (McKell David) gets haunted by crime lord Lazarus. Facing death, he is rescued by ex Serbian Commando Dimitrije (Lars Mikkelsen), a man with a dark past who wants to destroy Lazarus and his criminal empire. Dimitrije trains Montana to be an assassin and they plan their revenge on Lazarus to wipe him out for good.

(cited for someone else)

Shooting of the film took six weeks on locations all over London including Hackney, Poplar, Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Greenwich during February and March 2013.

On casting of McKell David director Mo Ali said "from the first time I met McKell David I knew I'd found my Montana".

Review from Independent reads " Director Mo Ali has an obvious flair for action – but little instinct for story or characterisation. At times, his new film plays like an episode of Grange Hill as if directed by Quentin Tarantino ".

Empire Magazine gave it 3/5 stars in their review " Tougher than a box of nails, this is a brassy revenge thriller that refuses to pull its punches "


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