Black Flies

Black Flies

Young paramedic Ollie Cross is partnered with experienced medic Rutkovsky, who thrusts him into the harsh realities of New York’s inner-city streets. Amidst high crime rates, homelessness, and widespread drug use, Ollie finds his perspective on life and death beginning to shift.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Drama, Thrillers
  • Stars: Tye Sheridan, Katherine Waterston, Kali Reis, Onie Maceo Watlington, Raquel Nave, Mike Tyson, Michael Pitt, Sean Penn, Alisa Mironova, Robert Oppel, Donna Glaesener, Decater James, Charrisse Matthews, Kareemeh Odeh
  • Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
 Comments
  • jesse-hitzroth - 1 June 2024
    Bringing Out the Dead
    Keep it brief review:

    "Asphalt City (Black Flies)" Follows a rookie NYC paramedic as he struggles to cope with the high pressures of night shift in the city that never sleeps. Essentially "Training Day" meets "Bringing Out the Dead". Featuring a strong performance from Sean Penn, however sadly the film feels as cold and empty as its title suggests. The world of emergency medicine is fascinating and has many stories to tell, unfortunately this film squanders what could have been an interesting story to tell, and instead features a hollow script and story identity crisis. The end result is a cold bloated mess with no satisfying conclusion.

    Positives: + Good performance from Sean Penn + Shows some of the cold harsh reality that paramedics have to deal with.

    Negatives:
    • Overlong long story that has major identity crises.


    • Paramedics have very interesting stories and challenges and sadly this script doesn't do much with the material.


    • Cold and hollow story telling with no real pay off.


    2 out of 5.
  • mazunqta - 29 April 2024
    What was the purpose of the killing of the animals
    I like Tye and I think he should make a film where he plays an asexual character for once so we don't have to see each and every time a nude woman laying on the floor etc. Hollywood is very 80s today and very European like with the killing of animals scenes. Very fascinating and amazing scenes. I really hope that the director will one day realise what he did with these scenes and he will regret it sometimes. Karma maybe. I hope so. Anyways if there are any aliens out there that would like to abduct me so I leave this planet once and for all please do so as soon as possible please? Thank you very much have a great day,