Omertà Movie Review

Omerta, a biographical drama on British-Pakistani terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh directed by Hansal Mehta, opens with unidentified wails flooding a pitch-black screen.

Im going with three out of five for Omerta. You might see it as the other side of the same coin that is Shahid. The making of a man deeply affected by similar incidents, but one who chooses a different path.

The word 'Omerta' means a code of silence that members of crime groups adopt when caught by the law. This film shows us how Omar was happy to kill in the name of religion.

Omerta's pace is so unrelenting and Rao's acting so immersive that it is impossible to turn away from the screen for a single moment of the film's compact 97 minutes and 37 seconds. To call it gripping might be an understatement.

Omerta is a pain-lashed brutal and blunt exposition on terrorism. It offers no hope for the end of violence. In fact it tells us that violence won't go away even if we want it to.

Omerta is not an easy film to watch. It cuts the protagonist's movements down to size in episodic chunks and then regurgitates the vivid moments into scenes of colour-blinded documentation.