While british movies usually have unexpected endings, The Veteran just takes the cake.
Toby Kebbel (The guy from the RocknRolla poster) plays Miller, a traumatized ex-soldier, fresh from combat, trying to start his life again in present-time London.
The first minutes of the movie makes you believe that it will follow a "ex-soldier tries to adapt" kind of approach, but that is not the case here.
Right off the bat Miller is caught between two different conflicts, one happens near his house, where the brother of his friend is involved with drug dealers. The other involves the national security of London.
Miller tries to balance "solving" both problems, but neither really feels like "his business", and Toby really shines in the role. You can feel how disconnected from it all he has become, and much of the movie is the way he looks at the world around him. Expect lots of close-ups of his face and beautiful shots of empty/abandoned places in London.
The action scenes, while being just a few, have a nice realistic touch to it. Miller gets beaten, bruised, has to patch himself, clean up his guns, or simply outsmart his enemies.
All of this would make up for a quite decent movie, if it wasn't for the frustrating ending. I won't spoil for you, but when it hits you, I bet you'll be dissapointed with the movie.
