The Front Line

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In this brooding Irish crime drama, Eriq Ebouaney plays a Congolese refugee, still haunted by memories of war in his homeland, who's attempting to build a new life in Dublin with his wife and child. Despite the probing of a suspicious immigration officer (Gerard McSorley), he's managed to secure a job as a security guard. Unfortunately, a vicious mobster (James Frain) decides he's the perfect inside man for a robbery he's planning and kidnaps Ebouaney's family, threatening to kill them unless he co-operates. The thriller elements never really convince and the heist itself is nothing special, but writer/director David Gleeson is on surer ground with the emotional drama at the core of the story and Ebouaney brings a quiet intensity to his role as a good man who can't escape his dark past.