Clickonline writes: "The story follows a cop (James McAvoy) called Bruce Robertson who is not a very nice fellow and goes around being generally unpleasant to people while not really being mentally well. There also may or may not be a tapeworm involved at some point."
FCJ's #Filth review: James McAvoy gives a career defining performance in this unhinged adaption of an Irvine Welsh novel.
WGTC writes: Though most of the chatter about James McAvoy this week will be in regards to his role in Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, the actor actually has another film releasing this month as well. Expanding on May 30th (it’s already begun its limited run), Jon S. Baird’s Filth is a far cry from 20 Century Fox’s superhero outing, but it’s an equally impressive film that features the Scottish actor like you’ve never seen him before.
Zac Elawar of Capsule Computers writes:
"Filth is what many called the “unfilmable”. Based on the novel of the same title by Irvine Welsh, Filth is the fourth film to be adapted from the author’s works, the most high profile of which being Trainspotting (1996). It stars James McAvoy (Wanted, X-Men: First Class) in what could fairly be considered his defining role as Bruce Robertson, or “Robbo”, a Detective Sergeant of the Edinburgh Polis in Scotland who is one of the most deplorable and, well, filthy people in existence. Despite McAvoy’s potentially deterring prediction that “there will be people that walk out of the cinema”, the movie opened at number one at the Scottish box office. And now you can revel in the filth on home media."
