MIKI (2024)

Miki's a Slovakian take on the gangster, organised crime, genre. It took ,me a while to warm to this film. Its initially slow pace and unfamiliar cultural vibe left it feeling somewhat uninteresting and inaccessible. That being said, if you give this film a chance, you get to see how universally familiar patterns of human behaviour, in this case, violent criminal behaviour, assert themselves. Miki, the main character, is a well rendered. He has a certain brutal depth to him, hes cruel, superficially charming in a rather basic way but also strangely honourable and loyal. Other char…