Reviews

I was bought this film as a present so I had no say in its selection. I can honestly say it's one of the worst British Gangster films I have ever seen. The art on the film case states a misleading tag line "Forget Football Factory and Footsolider this is an epic, brutal classic" which should of actually read "Forget this film". It's a crime to even mention those films in the same sentence compared to this poor effort.

The film concerns the activities of a crime gang doing drug deals and shooting people blah blah blah. There is no originality everything has been done a million times before and better. It's full of irrelevant patriotic references to British history that don't add to the story or script and loads of sitting around dialogue talking about how bad or good things are over and over again. There are attempts to get the world record amount of cockney rhyming slang into one sentence. You don't feel for or are interested in many of the main characters and many scenes just feel like scripted lines. There are laughable things such as the Colombo Style Police officer to the Police CID office being in a dodgy brick basement. You just lose interest within 10 minutes in the whole film. The script is just very very poor to say the least. A lot of the acting is more wooden than Pinocchio's nose. The worst actor by far is Keely Hazell who would look at home in amateur dramatic society's theatre play. She over does her character to such extreme unbelievable levels it just becomes comedy. She clearly was cast as a favour to someone there can be no other reason.

Clearly this is low budget movie and it seems costs have been kept down in a number of areas so why send the Peckham Princess actually to America and film her leave a hotel room and get in a Toyota Prius with a case of dollars in California when you could of done all of that in Boreham Wood outside Elstree studios for a fraction of the cost!.

There are also some examples of poor editing and obvious mistakes. For example Fairbrass and Harpers characters get in and drive to do a shooting in a black 1997 Jaguar XJ8 registered R342 JGK. They complete the shooting and drive back get out their car and then set fire to it destroy it. Except their car they have just got out of and torch is a black Jag registered as a 1995 XJ6 model N85 UEG a completely different older car!.

If you watch the making of video on the extras it answers a lot of questions i.e. most of the cast are mates with Frank Harper so agreed to do it. Clearly they were not looking to enhance their careers just get paid. It is clear to me that Frank Harper should stick to acting and not screen writing.

Avoid like the plague.