Stephen Graham’s ‘hypnotic’ thriller available to stream now on Amazon Prime Video

Hyena is an action-packed movie you can watch at home now (Picture: Amazon)

If you’re as enthralled by Stephen Graham’s performance in hit new show Adolescence as the rest of the country, you’re probably looking for more of the actor’s work.

Luckily, you don’t have to look any further than Hyena, which is available via the BFI Player with a Prime subscription, or you can buy or rent it.

With a 78% rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the 2014 neo-noir thriller is certified fresh.

Gritty and gripping, the movie follows London detective sergeant Michael Logan (Peter Ferdinando), who works as a part of a specialised taskforce alongside his friends and colleagues Chris (Gordon Brown), Martin (Neil Maskell) and Keith (Tony Pitts).

Before long, the corruption within the taskforce leads the officers to find themselves tangled up with European drug syndicates and things just get more heart-pounding from there.

Things only get trickier for the taskforce a new operation run by the vice unit starts sniffing around. The operation is headed up by DI David Knight – played by Graham – a former friend and colleague of Logan’s with whom he now has bad blood.

Graham describes his role in the film as, ‘one of those horrible people where you think they’re your mate, but as soon as they get the opportunity they’ll stab you in the back.

‘He’s one of them people that really want to climb that slippery pole and get to the top. So he’s got that European tan and he’s got an apartment in Puerto Banus and he’s very nouveau riche.’

One of the actor’s grittiest films to date, Graham was initially shocked by the graphicness of the movie, continuing in his interview with Film4: ‘It’s so gritty and so real. One of the scenes I found really uncomfortable, is where this Turkish guy is with this young girl, a prostitute, and you see everything. I was a bit like, “oh, did I really need to see that?”‘

Peter Ferdinando also stars in the police thriller (Picture: Amazon)

But he quickly answered his own question, concluding: ‘With the story that we’re telling, yes, I absolutely did need to be shocked by it and upset by it, because that’s what she goes through, however many times, every single day. That girl, and a lot of young girls out there.

‘So it’s not just shock for the sake of the shock, it’s to make you feel the emotional impact of their story.’

Critics were largely in agreement at the time of its release that the film had something special to offer.

Graham is earning heaps of praise for his performance in Adolescence on Netflix (Picture: Jeff Spicer/Getty Images)

Film critic C.H. Newell called it: ‘Gritty, hypnotic, drenched in neon lights and shadow, Hyena is a tour-de-force, both as a whole and in terms of Peter Ferdinando’s performance.’

Kitty Knowles for GQ said: ‘Johnson has created a successfully gritty Brit flick in the mould of Sexy Beast with the over-saturated neon visuals of TV’s Red Riding and Drive.’

Martin Tsai of the LA Times wrote: ‘Hyena feels like a throwback to the tough-as-nails British gangster flicks of the 1970s.’

Stream Hyena via the BFI Player with an Amazon Prime subscription.

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