About midway through Felony all the intrigue fades away as you begin to realize there is nothing left for the story to tell. The film focuses on Malcolm Toohey (Joel Edgerton), a cop who drives home drunk after a night of celebrating and ends up hitting a young boy on his bike. He stops his car and calls the paramedics but once they arrive on the scene he doesn’t confess to his involvement in the crime and is aided in his cover-up by a fellow officer, Detective Carl Summer (Tom Wilkinson), whose holier-than-though new partner, Jim Melic (Jai Courtney), isn’t as convinced.