Compliance

It's a busy night at a branch of the fast food restaurant ChickWich and it's all going wrong for franchisee Sandra (Ann Dowd). A slack employee left the freezer door ajar last night so a load of food spoiled and they've only been able to replace some of the stock. They'll have to short some of the ingredients in the sandwiches and it's rumoured a secret shopper from head office is in the area.

Now a Police Officer Daniels (Pat Healy) is on the phone saying one of her counter staff, Becky (Dreama Walker), has stolen from a customer. Officer Daniels asks Sandra to take Becky aside and check her pockets and bag.

No good will come of this.

CW: vile humiliating misogyny throughout, some nudity

It's not often I contemplate doing so but I almost switched this off.

Craig Zobel's thriller puts otherwise ordinary decent people doing terrible things on screen and all the more shockingly it's based on real events.

I'm not going to say much more, other than this is a film that should be up there in the canon of portrayals of the banality of evil along with things like "The Zone of Interest" even though the scale of the crime is completely different.

I won't say watch it, but if you do you'll know why I say it's an 8/10.