Was very impressed with the film. It's a very assured film debut for Ben Drew ad I was thinking it would end up absolute crap ike Noel Clarke's films but this is on a par with Shane Meadows, Ken Loach, and even one or two American directors.
It does have it's flaws. The acting is not ALL good but -by and large- it is. Riz is a very good and likeable actor and I would watch him in the lead of otherfilms to come too. Older, more exprienced actors like Lee Whitlock and Natalie Press give it quality too, and even the younger kids were not as annoying as they ll seem to be in Noel Clarke films, basically playing those sort of people.
It was airly pedestrian at moments but the story was the main thing and the direction and most of the dialogue was very good.
Ben Drew really surprised me here because I thought it would be weak, full of cliches and -basically, absolute rubbish but it surprised me. He got a decent cast and made a very expensive looking film. It's bleaker than Gary Oldman's Nil By Mouth and I could see Drew actually making a film THAT GOOD one day with more practise.
But above all it was the film that Noel Clarke wishes he could make.
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blade101167
12 years ago
I'm astonished this only cost £100k to make. To put this into some context, SkyFall cost £150m - 1,500 times the budget of Ill Manors. I saw this two weeks ago and SkyFall only two nights ago but this is the movie that will stay with me for longer.
A very accomplished debut and you can only imagine how good a film maker Drew could become in ten years time.
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