Bluff

[Available April 28 on Amazon Prime Video and various digital platforms.] Sheikh Shahnawaz's riveting, gritty, nonlinear, well-acted, suspenseful, violent, 115-minute neo-noir crime thriller in which a tenacious British detective (Gurj Gill) pays a high price when he accepts a secret, dangerous assignment from the Metropolitan Police chief constable (James Jaysen Bryhan), who keeps the gig under wraps because he suspects veteran cops (Lisa Blissitt, et al.) maybe corrupt, to go undercover as a strung-out addict in a small English town to infiltrate a heroin and crack cocaine drug ring controlled by a ruthless drug lord (Nisaro Karim) and his henchmen (Joe Egan, et al.), and he befriends and then enlists the help of a likable, stocking-cap-wearing heroin junkie (Jason Adam) to identify the primary traffickers bringing narcotics into the U.K.
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