Do we really need a third film about this?
Not really, the previous two were crap. Are we gonna keep getting these until someone does a good job of it?
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Agreed. What's the point? What lessons are we to learn from this? Oh yes this... Plastic gangsters go round inflicting pain and evil on the community to fulfill their own stupid egos. Some plastic gangsters think they can act, so they make carbon copies of the films they made about the plastic gangsters, to continue making money out of the dead, plus, they can't think of anything else original to come up with. Because they think they know it all and won't let anyone else tell them otherwise. In the end someone puts a shotgun to their heads, because they have gone too far. Was it the police? Or was it the other plastic gangsters? Who cares. This story is done. Now let it lie and let the dead rest in peace.
shareIt's the THIRD? No wonder I felt like I had seen it all before.
Three bad guys died in a range-rover can't we get over it?
They were not important just evil hoods.
Yeah I get people were arrested and are in gaol and they maintain their innocent.
In the main on the word of another crook.
Why make three films about it?
None of them were worth seeing.
Harry Brown ! Now there is a M O V I E.
Love film love cinema keep the suits at bay.
1: rise of the foot soldier
2:--------?
3: bonded by blood
what was the second film called?
Essex Boys*^
Was there any mention of Carlton Leach? I have to take my hat off to Terry Stone for having the balls to play the same character in a film that leads to the same climax. So was a decent part of Rise of the Footsoldier fictional? Surely with how close him and Tony Tucker were made out to be in that there would be some mention. Leach seems like he has a bit of an ego though so maybe his involvement beyond the casuals and doors was slightly exxagerated?
Anybody who can shed any light would be greatly appreciated.
Essex boys was the first one except they didn't use the real names of the people involved, the characters just had their own random names. Too be honest I don't even really rate Essex Boys I think it is pretty lame compared to the other 2.
shareEssex Boys WAS kind of a true story - it focussed more on Billy, who really WAS allegedly part of the Rettendon murders: supposedly he picked up Whomes and Steele after they shot Tucker, Tate and Rolfe (according to Darren Nicholls' testimony which, admittedly, had more holes in than a quart of Swiss cheese.)
shareHasn't Bernard O'Mahoney said in the past that Carlton Leach lives in a dreamland, and wasn't as close to the Essex Boys as was made out in Rise of the Footsoldier?
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Do we really need any film with Tamar Hassan and Danny Dyer? I understand that mentally retarded teenagers need films to watch aswell, but really.
shareNo, and especially one as badly made as this, what a load of hysterical bollocks, luckily I had some knowledge of the original events even though I live 10,000 miles away, but if I had no prior, the story would have told me NOTHING about who they were and why any of it was happening: it was just a lot of bad actors yelling slang gibberish at each-other about god-knows-what...easily the worst British film I've ever seen...
shareI actually really enjoyed Rise of the Footsoldier. Essex Boys was ok. Bonded by Blood, for me, was an enjoyable watch, but I agree that it didn't give anything extra over on the first two films. If there was a completely different take on the story, then fair enough, but it kinda followed the same pattern, which I don't understand.
shareI'd say this one was the worst one. The dialogue particularily was like the end end cliche book come to life. And the bit Hassan says before getting killed "remember she's got my spunk in her" or whatever it was was absolutely cringeworthy. Essex Boys was probably the best one, not a great film but decent, more of the actors could actually act though Sean Bean cannot hide his northern accent at all.
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Pretty much agree - I enjoyed ROTF as had some character development and continuity of plot + a bit of action - BBB was a very poor remake for the reasons you outline as well as poorly acted - scenes in the prison were down right amateurish.
shareI agree. Footsoldier is epic, one of my favourite English gangster films, so crazily violent, thrilling and unpredictable. Essex Boys is up there too.
Bonded by Blood had its moments, but it was completely lacking in punch and energy. I hated the way Steele spent nearly half the film, intricately outlining how he was going to murder the others. So much boring exposition for such little payoff - the actual Range Rover murder scene was very, very tame compared to the Footsoldier version.
Also, BbB's version of Darren Nicholls was absolutely crap - a rubbish, pointless character with a wooden personality and almost no story arc to speak of. Essex Boys did him way better.
Its a great story about the trouble round the rise of E, pretty *beep* important if your a clubber/interested in British gangsters.
shareIt looks like it, since they made a fourth about the same story, worse than any of the previous ones.
I am watching it right now and I am not even sure I will be able to make it to the end. It really is embarrassingly bad.