Asked to guess who directed , you might get through a long list before landing on Darren Aronofsky. The usually distinctive filmmaker – Mother! – is in unflashy form for this solid, starry but not very memorable thriller about one man’s very bad night.
Based on a novel by Charlie Huston (also the film’s screenwriter), it follows Hank (Austin Butler), a New York barman drifting through life and into alcoholism. When he and his girlfriend, Yvonne (Zoë Kravitz), agree to cat-sit for their neighbour (Matt Smith), they get far more hassle than anticipated. Soon, violent thugs are crashing through their door. After Hank wakes up in the hospital, beaten severely and minus one kidney, he has to find out what the criminals want from him and how he can get rid of them before bullets star