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Black Rabbit (review)

  • mwoldridge02
  • 19 hours ago
  • 2 min read

Published by Mason Oldridge, 15 October 2025


Jude Law and Jason Bateman are the big stars leading on this Netflix crime thriller.

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Jake Friedken runs the successful Black Rabbit restaurant and is preparing to expand with a second hotspot, but his swanky life is turned on its head when his erratic brother Vince brings trouble to his door, owing dangerous and violent loan sharks.


The series is both aesthetically and tonally dark and the first four episodes are relatively slow and boring. Jake and Vince primarily communicate with explicit language and cocaine use is presented as perfectly normal behaviour.


However, the pace picks up dramatically from the robbery onwards. The armed heist is watched in a new light compared to the flashforward at the start of the series, now knowing that Junior and Vince are the masked robbers and is quite eventful as it results in multiple casualties including two deaths. Furthermore, Vince on the run being hunted by Mancuso as the news of Wes’ death breaks is particularly thrilling and makes for tense viewing.


The ending is a powerful one as Vince confesses all to police before throwing himself from the roof of the Rabbit, a death all the more devastating as he falls so nonchalantly as Jake watches in stunned horror. It feels pointless that Jake and Vince put so much effort into saving Vince from being killed, only to then kill himself in the end. Apart from Jules who is rightfully arrested, it is debatable whether the rest of the characters get the ending they deserved too.


Strong performances from Law and Bateman drive the sinister and serious feel of the series.


A gripping second half awaits for anyone who has patience with the lacking first half.


7/10

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