In the Fade

'In the Fade' throws up a few moral dilemmas, gets your heart racing and is part revenge thriller, part courtroom drama. Diane Kruger is very believable as the grieving woman with an axe to grind. The pace is perfect and the viewing felt like half of the actual running time. There are some rather silly subplot errors, and some moments play out like a traditional american thriller, but on the whole, just when I thought the film may veer into the 'too ridiculous' territory, it always seemed to stop and pull me back in. At it's heart it's an 'anti-hatred' movie with a very simple message but quite well done. It's nothing original and the third act is rather blunt. But the reality is that things will come to a blunt end if hatred is allowed to continue spreading.