Tony is set in London where socially incompetent loner Tony Benson (Peter Ferdinando) lives alone in his grimy little high rise flat, Tony has never had a job & spends most of his time walking around London or watching action films on video, he doesn't have a DVD player you see. Occasionally Tony decides to kill someone & cut their bodies up before disposing of the parts, when a young boy named Davey goes missing on Tony's estate Tony is suspected. Will the truth come out & will Tony be exposed as the ruthless serial killer that he is?
This British production was written & directed by Gerard Johnson & is a film that many seem to like which does baffle me a little, I thought Tony was a rather bland & pointless serial killer thriller with virtually no plot. While what's here is very well made & written & acted there's nothing beyond watching this awkward guy named Tony walk around London & randomly kill a couple of people along the way, the only other plot angle about the missing kid amounts to nothing & instead of being a film with a proper story Tony comes across more like a slice of life, a minimalist, stark, short & empty documentary that follows one guy around for a few days & nothing more. Tony isn't given any real background, there's no reason for what he does or the way he acts or the way he is, Tony is a complete loner & acts very strangely around other people taking long pauses while talking or just saying some really bizarre random things that come across as rather strange. I suspect that Tony was meant as some sort of modern London set character study of a serial killer like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) with it's gritty realist approach but with an almost complete lack of any story to hang on to or anything or anyone to really relate to I was left watching Tony but not really getting involved in it. Even though Tony lasts for 72 minutes the end credits run for a good five of those so in reality it only lasts for just over an hour & even then not that much happens, one also has to question how Davey's dad knew where Tony lived or why Tony never gets any blood on himself despite killing several people & cutting them up.
Tony is set in London but not the glamorous London usually seen in films, no this is the rundown horrible London where people live in poverty. None of the actors are beautiful model types & along with the decayed urban settings Tony has a very bleak & depressing look & atmosphere that works really well. It's just a shame there's no story to go with the visuals. Tony kills a few people, a severed foot is seen & some guts as well but there's not much gore otherwise.
Apparently shot in just twelve days on a budget of about £60,000 in locations around London it's very well made with great photography & use of background imagery & locations to create mood but as I said there's not much else here besides the gritty look. The acting is very good, I can't say Tony was scary but he did come across as weird & a bit creepy at times & I am surprised he managed to pick up so many people & lure them back to his flat.
Tony is a minimalist serial killer thriller that follows the title character around for a bit & then just finishes. The film has a really gritty look & feel with good acting as well but I just found myself failing to get involved in the character's or the situations, ultimately the lack of any story is more of a killer than Tony himself.
This British production was written & directed by Gerard Johnson & is a film that many seem to like which does baffle me a little, I thought Tony was a rather bland & pointless serial killer thriller with virtually no plot. While what's here is very well made & written & acted there's nothing beyond watching this awkward guy named Tony walk around London & randomly kill a couple of people along the way, the only other plot angle about the missing kid amounts to nothing & instead of being a film with a proper story Tony comes across more like a slice of life, a minimalist, stark, short & empty documentary that follows one guy around for a few days & nothing more. Tony isn't given any real background, there's no reason for what he does or the way he acts or the way he is, Tony is a complete loner & acts very strangely around other people taking long pauses while talking or just saying some really bizarre random things that come across as rather strange. I suspect that Tony was meant as some sort of modern London set character study of a serial killer like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) with it's gritty realist approach but with an almost complete lack of any story to hang on to or anything or anyone to really relate to I was left watching Tony but not really getting involved in it. Even though Tony lasts for 72 minutes the end credits run for a good five of those so in reality it only lasts for just over an hour & even then not that much happens, one also has to question how Davey's dad knew where Tony lived or why Tony never gets any blood on himself despite killing several people & cutting them up.
Tony is set in London but not the glamorous London usually seen in films, no this is the rundown horrible London where people live in poverty. None of the actors are beautiful model types & along with the decayed urban settings Tony has a very bleak & depressing look & atmosphere that works really well. It's just a shame there's no story to go with the visuals. Tony kills a few people, a severed foot is seen & some guts as well but there's not much gore otherwise.
Apparently shot in just twelve days on a budget of about £60,000 in locations around London it's very well made with great photography & use of background imagery & locations to create mood but as I said there's not much else here besides the gritty look. The acting is very good, I can't say Tony was scary but he did come across as weird & a bit creepy at times & I am surprised he managed to pick up so many people & lure them back to his flat.
Tony is a minimalist serial killer thriller that follows the title character around for a bit & then just finishes. The film has a really gritty look & feel with good acting as well but I just found myself failing to get involved in the character's or the situations, ultimately the lack of any story is more of a killer than Tony himself.