If you are a fan of the gangster genre or just a fan of films in general then I would advise you to avoid this pile of cr*p like the plague.
If however you are a fan of caricature cockney imbeciles who make amateur dramatists look like Lawrence Olivier watch Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and still avoid this like the plague.
It really is that bad.
"Are you the Farmer?"
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shareI watched this film yesterday, and i gotta say the "acting" and the story, make this one of the worst films i've seen in a number of years.
And Dave Courtney playing up his "gangster" past just makes me laugh. He is just a small time crim, a wannabe. And this film is just a ego boost.
Rubbish.
firstly courtney is the first to admit hes an egomaniac. ok, so the thesping in the film is not of the grade of the r.s.c. but most the cast are non actors and if courtney wants someone in his film as a crim then theres no harm getting the real article to at least make it fairly convincing. perhaps the italian post war neo realists and those who subscribed to cinema verite were idiots too if you want to go through the logical exercises of your ramifications. ok. courtney is no roberto rosselini but his reasonably realistic film is an antidote to the false mockney gangster brit flicks.
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well said. He's seen as a 'Celebrity Gangster', which he himself claims isn't true, it's like a paradox "..like police and intelligence. the words don't go together" (Dave Courtney - Hell to Pay) cause he's seen as a 'Celebrity' for what he does now, doesn't mean he didn't do crazy *beep* when he was younger. he was a doorman and moved up, and he was friends with Ronnie Kray - if that's not English gangster what is?
and in his book *beep* the ride he states that Guy Ritchie uses some of his past experience - in lock stock when vinnie a.k.a 'Big Chris' does that guy in the sunbed, dave apparently did that at some point in his life. Big Chris was based on Dave. He was going to be in the film, but Guy was 'forced' to take him out because of pressure from critics and the police.
i'm just rambling now
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I really liked it...
/shrug