“To Catch a Predator” was an investigative reality series that used young actors to lure child predators into a home so they could be arrested by law enforcement. It’s popular among TV watchers because of the stories these predators give and the overall cringe that comes from a predator being humiliated on national TV. Well, the new film “Nomis” shares the same basic premise as that reality series, except there are no cameras and humiliation. Instead, the predator is hunted by Ben Kingsley, and they probably wish they would have ended up in jail instead.
As seen in the trailer, “Nomis” shares a lot of DNA with the aforementioned reality series, but also with one of the most influential crime thrillers of the last 20 years — “Seven.” After Ben Kingsley, who plays a vigilante hunting child predators, gets taken in by the cops and questioned, he leads them to perhaps the biggest predator of them all, an unsuspecting, mentally ill man who may or may not have even more victims hidden somewhere else. Oh, and a bearded Henry Cavill is thrown into the mix as a police officer, for good measure.
“Nomis” stars Kingsley and Cavill alongside Alexandra Daddario, Stanley Tucci, Minka Kelly, and Nathan Fillion.
“Nomis” doesn’t have an official US release date, but was picked up by Saban Films after its premiere at the LAFF. It’ll hit Europe in the fall.
Here’s the synopsis:
A weathered Lieutenant, his police force, and a local vigilante are all caught up in a dangerous scheme involving a recently arrested, troubled man who’s supposedly linked to years of female abductions and murders.