''The Veteran'' is a 2011 British action crime thriller film directed by Matthew Hope and starring

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, Brian Cox, Tony Curran and

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Plot

Robert Miller, a

veteran A veteran () is a person who has significant experience (and is usually adept and esteemed) and expertise in a particular occupation or field. A military veteran is a person who is no longer serving in a military. A military veteran that has ...

paratrooper, is returning from the war in Afghanistan to his home in a violent decaying

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, overrun by gun-toting youth gangs. The gangs are led by a drug lord gangster Jones who is interested in Miller working for him, but his job offer is rejected. Through an ex-army mate, Miller finds work in undercover surveillance. He is soon recruited by a couple of shady government operatives for an undercover operation to keep tabs on a network of suspected terrorist cells. Embedded in the terrorist group is a Lebanese-born British citizen informant. Miller soon discovers that the security forces and the intelligence services are not quite what they seem. He uncovers a conspiracy the government is planning to set off a series of coordinated attacks to renew fear of terrorism to help them benefit from the GOD policy - Guns, Oil, and Drugs. Miller finds out that all his surveillance was simply to confirm the go ahead for the attacks. The government needs funding and the GOD policy had been instated for years. Miller finds out that this links with the local gang terrorising his neighbourhood being linked with the terrorist cells. Miller attacks and kills most of Jones' men, but also accidentally shoots an innocent woman. He ends up being shot dead by a young kid that Miller had previously been trying to get out of Jones' gang.

Cast

as Robert Miller * Brian Cox as Gerry * Tony Curran as Chris Turner *

as Alayna Wallace * Tom Brooke as Danny Turner * Selva Rasalingam as Fawwaz * Ashley Bashy Thomas as Tyrone Jones *

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as Hakeem * Ivanno Jeremiah as Fahad Sahal * Eboseta Ayemere as Ryan Sahal

Production

Reception

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the film has a score of 60% based on reviews from 20 critics, with an average rating of 5.22 out of 10.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Veteran 2011 action films 2011 films British action films Films shot at Elstree Film Studios Films about terrorism 2010s English-language films 2010s British films