I was not surprised that the directing and scripting were bad to the point of childish. The budget just couldn't support better talent. Fairbrass is passable as an actor, as he always is, but the rest a pretty low on the food chain. I was able to set that aside because it was predictably poor but I was only out for half way watchable action film. However, what began to bother me was the mind numbing, just idiotically STUPID plot holes and implausible script!
Fairbrass who is clearly presented as a very street wise, East end bad ass would stumble around making the most moronic, unbelievably, stupid errors.
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In one case, Fairbrass chances on a man counting money with bags of cocaine in the back room of a club. First of all, there is NO WAY that dude would have been counting all that loot in a room, with an open, unlocked door. A room that was accessible to any drunk patron wandering around looking for the bathroom. Fairbrass decides to take a detour and steal the loot, despite the fact that he's in the HQ of a very dangerous gang that had brutally murdered his mate. After a scuffle, he knocks the guy out and then without a care for getting jumped begins to rather laboriously pack a bag with the coke and the money. Misses the knocked out man, feet away, noisily and groggily getting up, grabbing a gun and training it on him. Manages to execute the man with both barrels of the shottie (very loud). Leaves with the bag and encounters another henchman in the hall, previously KO'd and while interrogating him Fairbrass gets surprised AGAIN! Knife to the throat but of course manages to knife guy first. He then proceeds to the office of the gang boss. Charges in without a care for the possibility of likely body guards in this room and gets ambushed AGAIN! So, I'll spare you the details but this theme of a seasoned, street wise gangster, Fairbrass, stumbling from one idiotic encounter to the next is just pitifully lazy and ignorant.
Later, he is chasing an arch-enemy who is badly wounded. This loser is largely responsible for betraying his mate and getting him horribly butchered but does Fairbrass EVER break into even a jog to catch this creep? NO!! He just strides along with the guy limping along, in plain sight and easily reachable had he just picked the pace up a tad!? The creep gets away as he's able to jump on a bus! LMAO So needlessly implausibly STUPID!
Anyway, this is the tone of the film respective to writing and the repeated trespass on credible narrative that I can't forgive.
1 out of 5 stars.
Fairbrass who is clearly presented as a very street wise, East end bad ass would stumble around making the most moronic, unbelievably, stupid errors.
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In one case, Fairbrass chances on a man counting money with bags of cocaine in the back room of a club. First of all, there is NO WAY that dude would have been counting all that loot in a room, with an open, unlocked door. A room that was accessible to any drunk patron wandering around looking for the bathroom. Fairbrass decides to take a detour and steal the loot, despite the fact that he's in the HQ of a very dangerous gang that had brutally murdered his mate. After a scuffle, he knocks the guy out and then without a care for getting jumped begins to rather laboriously pack a bag with the coke and the money. Misses the knocked out man, feet away, noisily and groggily getting up, grabbing a gun and training it on him. Manages to execute the man with both barrels of the shottie (very loud). Leaves with the bag and encounters another henchman in the hall, previously KO'd and while interrogating him Fairbrass gets surprised AGAIN! Knife to the throat but of course manages to knife guy first. He then proceeds to the office of the gang boss. Charges in without a care for the possibility of likely body guards in this room and gets ambushed AGAIN! So, I'll spare you the details but this theme of a seasoned, street wise gangster, Fairbrass, stumbling from one idiotic encounter to the next is just pitifully lazy and ignorant.
Later, he is chasing an arch-enemy who is badly wounded. This loser is largely responsible for betraying his mate and getting him horribly butchered but does Fairbrass EVER break into even a jog to catch this creep? NO!! He just strides along with the guy limping along, in plain sight and easily reachable had he just picked the pace up a tad!? The creep gets away as he's able to jump on a bus! LMAO So needlessly implausibly STUPID!
Anyway, this is the tone of the film respective to writing and the repeated trespass on credible narrative that I can't forgive.
1 out of 5 stars.