Spartan

...a powerful, performance, revealing a wistful humanity as his unauthorised investigation leads him into murky depths and forces him to re-evaluate his belief system.

The particular pleasure of Spartan is to watch the characters gradually define themselves and the plot gradually emerge like your face in a steamy mirror.

The focus on Spartan is the taciturn, self-possessed Scott, whose lack of moral accountability begins to give way when he’s assigned to sort out an impossibly convoluted case.

...like a '70s conspiracy thriller (The Parallax View perhaps)...a satisfying, complex, occasionally exciting and eminently grown-up thriller.

For star Val Kilmer, it's a long-overdue return to the sort of strong action material he worked so memorably a decade back...