Oh a British gangster film ? Do they still make them ? Maybe they do but they never ever meet with commercial success these days . Don't think I've seen a decent one since RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER that was based on a true story and featured Terry Stone playing a character called Tony Tucker and here Terry Stone is playing another character called Tony Tucker . Wow what a coincidence having the same actor playing a different character with the same name ! It get worse because he's not only playing a character with the same name he's playing the exact same character and the only difference is he's got a slightly different hairstyle !
This shows the banal insipid lazy thinking behind British film production . RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER didn't fare very well at the box office but I rate it as a tough British thriller . I can understand why critics didn't like that 2007 with the somewhat formulaic with an excess of characters screaming " FAHK " and " KHANT " and perhaps a little too much interest of portraying on screen violence that culminated in the 1993 Rettendon murders . If you've seen that film then there's little need to watch this one which is inferior to its predecessor apart from Mr Stone's hairstyle
BONDED BY BLOOD follows the criminal career of several characters who sell drugs , beat people and eventually meet a sticky end . There's not a single sentence spoken that doesn't involve the F or C word . What does it bring to the table that hasn't been done before or better ? Absolutely nothing except to state that the people serving life for murder might be innocent so what better than to show them committing a triple murder on screen . Yeah I'm sure that's going to get the case to the court of appeal
This is actually the third film to use the Rettendon murders as it theme after the heavily fictionalised ESSEX BOYS from 2000 and the aforementioned FOOTSOLDIER . Unbelievably earlier this year there was a fourth entry of the case committed to film called THE FALL OF THE ESSEX BOYS . Really British film producers need to get a grip and make up their own stories
This shows the banal insipid lazy thinking behind British film production . RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER didn't fare very well at the box office but I rate it as a tough British thriller . I can understand why critics didn't like that 2007 with the somewhat formulaic with an excess of characters screaming " FAHK " and " KHANT " and perhaps a little too much interest of portraying on screen violence that culminated in the 1993 Rettendon murders . If you've seen that film then there's little need to watch this one which is inferior to its predecessor apart from Mr Stone's hairstyle
BONDED BY BLOOD follows the criminal career of several characters who sell drugs , beat people and eventually meet a sticky end . There's not a single sentence spoken that doesn't involve the F or C word . What does it bring to the table that hasn't been done before or better ? Absolutely nothing except to state that the people serving life for murder might be innocent so what better than to show them committing a triple murder on screen . Yeah I'm sure that's going to get the case to the court of appeal
This is actually the third film to use the Rettendon murders as it theme after the heavily fictionalised ESSEX BOYS from 2000 and the aforementioned FOOTSOLDIER . Unbelievably earlier this year there was a fourth entry of the case committed to film called THE FALL OF THE ESSEX BOYS . Really British film producers need to get a grip and make up their own stories