ASSASSINS (12) GREENLAND (15) Preview
★★★★★
IN FEBRUARY 2017, CCTV cameras captured shocking footage of Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korean despot Kim Jong-un, being fatally poisoned by two young women in Kuala Lumpur airport.
Grainy footage of them rubbing a nerve agent into his eyes, which played on the world’s news bulletins, was as bizarre as it was shocking.
This fascinating and rigorously researched documentary relates what happened to the two assassins, Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong.
Director Ryan White leaves no stone unturned, interviewing cops, intelligence officers, diplomats and family members to examine the girls’ claims that they were duped into believing they were performing a prank for a YouTube channel.
I won’t reveal what happens in the end but I’d advise against Googling their names. This is a shocking, heartbreaking and at times unbearably tense true crime thriller.
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Review by Andy Lea
STRUCTURAL engineer John Garrity (Gerard Butler) leaves work early to prepare for a neighbourhood party with his estranged wife Allison (Morena Baccarin) and their young son Nathan (Roger Dale Floyd). A comet named Clarke is due to pass perilously close to Earth, providing 24-hour TV news channels with an interstellar light show to broadcast live to the world. The Garritys and their friends watch in horror as a fragment of Clarke hits Florida, razing miles of heavily populated land.
As the gravity of the situation sinks in – the world is witnessing an extinction-level event – John and his loved ones are selected for immediate evacuation to underground bunkers in Greenland. The family race against the clock to make a flight from Warner Robins Air Force Base and the fabric of society unravels around them at sickening speed. Stream from Friday on Amazon Prime Video