Imperium | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

A film that starts as conventional, but quickly moves into something much more dark and engaging.

Aside from Daniel Radcliffe's superb central performance, Imperium's strong core comes from director Daniel Ragussis' depiction of malign normalcy.

This is the kind of movie that uses the tagline "inspired by real events" to its best advantage, and using it to craft a compelling narrative that eschews bright shiny things and dares to take us on a journey into the worst impulses of the human heart.

A rather generic undercover thriller, Imperium still works with an engaging story set within an ugly subculture in American life that has become resurgent in recent years.

Imperium mostly stays its course. As an exploration of hate in America, it is both wide-ranging and scarily believable, and as a depiction of grungy, ground-level undercover endeavors, it generally feels like the real deal.