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A gruesome serial killer is terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break out of prison to finish the job by any means necessary.

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    Idris Elba

    John Luther

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    Cynthia Erivo

    Odette Raine

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    Andy Serkis

    David Robey

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    Dermot Crowley

    Martin Schenk

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    Thomas Coombes

    Archie Woodward

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    Hattie Morahan

    Corinne Aldrich

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    Lauryn Ajufo

    Anya Raine

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    Vincent Regan

    Dennis McCabe

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    Ross Waiton

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Luther is, for my money, one of the best things to come out of the UK, in a long time. I was therefore more than a little cynical, when I spied a film adaptation of the obsessively watchable, series. To be frank, the back story is absurdly far fetched but somehow it "works". In essence, I'd describe it as a pastiche, of borrowed elements, from the series, that have been thrown together, in an inexplicable, crime mash up. Its cause is helped in no small part, by Idris Elba, whose talent outshines and out paces, this flawed tale. Elba breathes life into a story, that might not have fared...