A cast list full of the usual hard-nut cockney actors who you wouldn't want to watch on TV.
Hard-nut Cockneys saying *beep* or *beep* every other word to show they're tough guys.
Lock Stock without the humour.
"A film by Frank Harper." Seriously? And I like him usually as an actor, but this is a giant ego trip.
Keeley Hazell acting.
Having to look at Jamie Foreman's face.
Feel free to add.
Well I only made it to 23 mins; once Keeley turned- up so that's one reason to hate. Just awful
shareI had not prior knowledge of any of the individuals involved in the movie to skew my opinion and thought it was a decent movie in this genre. I wouldn't say to run out and see it right now, but if you like crime/gangster capers its not that bad.
I did have to turn the subtitles on, though.
"Love's turned to lust and blood's turned to dust in my heart"
I'm always genuinely happy to see someone enjoy a movie ktowny, no matter how much I may have personally disliked it.
I see from another comment on this board that you're not a Londoner, or a Brit. So I should explain that this sub-genre isn't exactly looked on with any fondness over here.
It isn't preconceptions about the actors who appear in these films that make me dislike the majority of them (although I admit there is one regular that I know and feel completely justified in hating, as would you I think). It's more that you can almost mentally tick their names off as the same old faces pop up. If one is missing, I tend to assume they must have been ill that day.
Lock Stock is the recent benchmark for this type of film, and most of those that followed have rightly drawn unfavourable comparisons. It has got to the stage where in a recent film, a character referred to something being 'a bit Lock Stock'.
I still watch these films, or at least start watching them, in the hope that one will be different. I seem to remember quite liking one recently, and if I remember what it was I'll let you know ktowny.* On the whole though, from our viewpoint, and I feel qualified to speak for all 64 million of us, they are awful.
*ktowny - it was Who Needs Enemies. Recommended.