Vincent Cassel and Gianni Capaldi complete an improbable trio on the hunt for a serial killer in this absurd police procedural – one for the so-bad-it’s-good genre
ere is what appears to be an authentic so-bad-it’s-good crime thriller, set on the mean streets of Edinburgh and starring the improbable trio of Gianni Capaldi , and Vincent Cassel . If you’ve ever wondered what a British police procedural television show inexplicably starring this combo of actors would feel like – and why wouldn’t you? – this is the movie for you.
As is traditional, matters begin with a pre-titles cold open featuring a grisly murder: a woman answers the door of herflat to a caped and hooded maniac who proceeds to dismember her. “Why do serial killers always gotta bring this cult shit into it?” Jackson’s character laments. But “this cult shit” is of course practically obligatory.
The cop characters could stand to take a leaf out of the killer’s book, in fact, since while the murders are conducted by said book , the police work seems iffier. At one point the main cop announces that he has found an important clue: a key which doesn’t seem to fit any of the locks in the woman’s flat.
The so-bad-it’s-good genre has taken a bit of a hit lately, what with all the ironic winks to camera and deliberate striving for kitsch status in a world where becoming a successful meme is potentially the best promotional gimmick available. But Damaged isn’t trying to be a meme, it’s playing things completely straight, and trying to be a serious police procedural in the vein of 90s thrillers such as Se7en or Primal Fear.
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