Broker tracks a mother who gave up her baby but later returns to collect it, two men who are the titular 'brokers' - selling abandoned babies - and a bunch of other characters, including two cops hot on their tail.
The characters are interesting and we learn more about each of them throughout the film - an achievement given the number of them. The movie switches fairly well between a serious and funny tone, and a number of jokes drew laughter in the theatre I watched in.
A con for me (and this may just be me!) was that I felt the movie became a little cluttered towards the end - a sort of subplot (but linked to the main narrative) with a couple of gangsters and the wife of the baby's father felt confusing. The ending also felt a little abruptly saccharine - a shift in tone from the subdued realism that made up most of the film.
The characters are interesting and we learn more about each of them throughout the film - an achievement given the number of them. The movie switches fairly well between a serious and funny tone, and a number of jokes drew laughter in the theatre I watched in.
A con for me (and this may just be me!) was that I felt the movie became a little cluttered towards the end - a sort of subplot (but linked to the main narrative) with a couple of gangsters and the wife of the baby's father felt confusing. The ending also felt a little abruptly saccharine - a shift in tone from the subdued realism that made up most of the film.
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