It’s based on an acclaimed novel by Martin Amis, but one can only assume something got lost in the translation as the story is as ho-hum as you can get. It’s a messy, wannabe-epic, with director Matthew Cullen, best known for his music videos, clearly having tried to make a STRANGE DAYS-style future noir epic, but the material just ain’t there. Certainly, I’m sure it’s a film Heard would rather forget, given that it co-stars, in a showy supporting part, her now ex-husband Johnny Depp (not that his image is being used to sell the film). For one, lawsuits have been flying back and forth, with star Amber Heard herself being faced with a messy $10 million lawsuit. This is most certainly dated now, for a whole host of reasons. REVIEW: LONDON FIELDS has had so much behind the scenes turmoil that its eventual release, over three years after it was pulled from the Toronto International Film Festival due to a dispute between the director and the producers, feels anti-climactic.
Meanwhile, she toys with the affections of a married rich man ( Theo James) and a low-level thug ( Jim Sturgess). PLOT: In a rapidly deteriorating London, an American writer ( Billy Bob Thornton) becomes obsessed with his neighbor, a gorgeous clairvoyant named Nicola Six ( Amber Heard) who’s had a vision of herself dying at the hands of a mystery man.