Storyline
Nate Foster, a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as he navigates the dangerous underworld of white supremacy. Inspired by real events.
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Daniel Radcliffe, Burn Gorman, Jasson Finney, Toni Collette, Nestor Carbonell, Sam Trammell, Tracy Letts, David Aranovich, Pawel Szajda, Chris Sullivan, Devin Druid, Seth Numrich, Adam Meier, Roger Yawson, Linc Hand, Vanessa Ore, Paul H Chapman, David Meadows, Maboud Ebrahimzadeh, Asif Khan, Cora Metzfield, Aidan Fiske, Alex Miller, Mike Marunde, Robert Poletick, Marty Terry, Jeff Goins, Shawn Singletary, Charlie V. Wilson, Jonathan Darden Reed
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Reviews
88
Imperium is a well-spun, tight thriller, thanks in no small part to Radcliffe’s excellent, sharply focused performance.
80
A chilling, surprisingly effective crime thriller.
80
Nate’s journey is used primarily to show us the variations in extremist groups and how they might accomplish something drastic like set off a dirty bomb; his inner turmoil takes a back seat. The movie works just fine as a straightforward thriller, though.
75
Slant Magazine
It demonstrates both the fatal proximity and deceptive distance that can exist between the words and deeds of extremists.
75
Radcliffe’s performance also ramps up toward the end of the movie, when the pressures of undercover life and his struggle to empathize with these people — his main asset as an undercover agent — really begin to weigh on him.
