There’s committed work from Ben Whishaw in Surge but fatally flawed writing makes it a very difficult watch
“Sorry mate, it’s not working”
Written by Aneil Karia, Rupert Jones and Rita Kalnejais and directed by Karia, it’s hard to know what to make of Surge. Ben Whishaw plays Joseph, an airport security guard who we quickly surmise is a bit of a loner. And when he has a bit of a bad day, which turns out to be a day of some note, it snowballs into a violent mess of chaotic proportions.
As he ricochets a difficult visit to his parents (Ian Gelder and Ellie Haddington) to a frustrating work shift that ends with him getting fired, he barrels around London suffering what might be a bit of a breakdown, colliding (literally in some cases) into meetings with strangers and trying to help the one colleague who does tolerate him by getting her a HDMI cable, a job which leads to its own world of unlikely trouble. Continue reading “Film Review: Surge (2020)”