The Business
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Chuckwalla
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Excellent film, not quite as good as Football Factory also directed by Nick Love but still excellent.
Another Nick Love movie Outlaw is due out in 2007 looks very promising.
Another Nick Love movie Outlaw is due out in 2007 looks very promising.
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Yeah I have to agree I really enjoyed the Football Foctory and The Business but Football Factory was the better film!
So what is this new film Outlaw about then?
So what is this new film Outlaw about then?
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I am not suprised to see Danny Dyer in Outlaw!
your_name_here
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I much preferred this to The Football Factory which was IMO just a substandard typical low budget Brit movie.This was quality- beautifully shot,great music and the ending is great.
jarretsherrard
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Great film. Although i think the ending was abit rushed and trixy.
I got this on VOD last week the night I got installed. The music and the clothing are bang on, great up until they go to kill the mayor when they see the head of their mate on a stick, fast forward ten years lol no explanation to what happened. That was what bugged me not the ending about the film.
Enjoyed it overall though and seeing as it was on C4 the other night I recorded it to watch again, but they could of made it so much better with an extra 20 minutes film time.
Best line in the film was,
"call yourself a south london gangster, nothing but a carboard cut-out c*nt"
Tamer Hassan was so good I nearly felt sorry for him at the end.
This is the MYSPACE site for the film!
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Enjoyed it overall though and seeing as it was on C4 the other night I recorded it to watch again, but they could of made it so much better with an extra 20 minutes film time.
Best line in the film was,
"call yourself a south london gangster, nothing but a carboard cut-out c*nt"
Tamer Hassan was so good I nearly felt sorry for him at the end.
This is the MYSPACE site for the film!
LINKY
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Good film, shame they used Danny Dyer again though, can't stand the mockney ****.
Queen Kira
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How is he a mockney? He's from Canning Town.
Secret N Keyblade Master
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Was it on a couple of nights ago? I think i saw abit of it. Shirley from Eastenders was in it wasn't she?
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I just saw this film for the first time on Film 4 last night.
I'm surprised at some of the comments because personally I thought that this was a crap film.
It looked like Brit gangster film by numbers, with a lot of terrible acting and scenes with completely unrealistic behaviour that made it look more like a cartoon than a proper film.
It felt so cliched it was unbelievable. It was a case of get from A to B to C and use every Brit gangster film cliche available along the way.
It had none of the humour of Lock Stock and didn't have the depth or characterisation of Sexy Beast.
A very pedestrian story as well.
It was like an unfunny spoof of the above films. If it was made as a spoof of those films I could forgive it if it was funny enough.
It's now at the point where these films are almost like a parody of themselves with the actors trying to sound as 'cockney' as they possibly can with the typical cliched dialogue to go along with the accents.
It might have had good intentions but I thought it was really badly made as it felt like some scenes were intended to go somehwere or do something, but were cut short and didn't seem to have any depth.
It felt really shallow and predictable. The characterisations felt like little more than stereotypes based on other British cockney gangster films of recent years.
The last scene where he knocked the girl out felt so unrealistic and stupid.
It just felt like it was done for the sake of it and not becuase it was something that the character would actually do.
Likewise we are shown early on in the film that the Sandy character is pretty scary (Best part of the film for me) and the character Danny Dyer is playing is understandably scared of him. But then without explanation the character Danny Dyer is playing is suddenly acting all cocky and mouthing off at him. There was just no logic or sense to situations like this. People were just acting without rhyme or reason and their behaviour seemed to be based more on doing scenes just for the sake of the neeRAB of a particular scene as opposed to good characterisation throughout the film.
For the first half it felt like it still had potential so I stuck with it. But when there was about three quarters of an hour left it just felt that it wasn't going to get any better.
It had the makings of a good film, but I think it was mainly carried by the 1980s soundtrack and came across more like an extended music video for the 1980s songs. I think that the script was in serious need of attention to provide it with some depth and not rely so much on trying so hard to come up with quotable gangster style dialogue.
I'm surprised at some of the comments because personally I thought that this was a crap film.
It looked like Brit gangster film by numbers, with a lot of terrible acting and scenes with completely unrealistic behaviour that made it look more like a cartoon than a proper film.
It felt so cliched it was unbelievable. It was a case of get from A to B to C and use every Brit gangster film cliche available along the way.
It had none of the humour of Lock Stock and didn't have the depth or characterisation of Sexy Beast.
A very pedestrian story as well.
It was like an unfunny spoof of the above films. If it was made as a spoof of those films I could forgive it if it was funny enough.
It's now at the point where these films are almost like a parody of themselves with the actors trying to sound as 'cockney' as they possibly can with the typical cliched dialogue to go along with the accents.
It might have had good intentions but I thought it was really badly made as it felt like some scenes were intended to go somehwere or do something, but were cut short and didn't seem to have any depth.
It felt really shallow and predictable. The characterisations felt like little more than stereotypes based on other British cockney gangster films of recent years.
The last scene where he knocked the girl out felt so unrealistic and stupid.
It just felt like it was done for the sake of it and not becuase it was something that the character would actually do.
Likewise we are shown early on in the film that the Sandy character is pretty scary (Best part of the film for me) and the character Danny Dyer is playing is understandably scared of him. But then without explanation the character Danny Dyer is playing is suddenly acting all cocky and mouthing off at him. There was just no logic or sense to situations like this. People were just acting without rhyme or reason and their behaviour seemed to be based more on doing scenes just for the sake of the neeRAB of a particular scene as opposed to good characterisation throughout the film.
For the first half it felt like it still had potential so I stuck with it. But when there was about three quarters of an hour left it just felt that it wasn't going to get any better.
It had the makings of a good film, but I think it was mainly carried by the 1980s soundtrack and came across more like an extended music video for the 1980s songs. I think that the script was in serious need of attention to provide it with some depth and not rely so much on trying so hard to come up with quotable gangster style dialogue.
He was still overdoing it. It was as though he was exagerrating his own accent to try to be 'more' cockney.
A lot of people who put on the cockney gangster accent do that thing where they almost have a childlike illiterate burble to their accent as though they are a toddler who can't form their worRAB properly. This film had most of them doing this at every opportunity.
I saw this guy being interviewed on a TV show and he was putting on this cockney persona a lot, making out that if he wasn't acting he'd be in prison for being a criminal.
Yeah, right, sure he would.
A lot of people who put on the cockney gangster accent do that thing where they almost have a childlike illiterate burble to their accent as though they are a toddler who can't form their worRAB properly. This film had most of them doing this at every opportunity.
I saw this guy being interviewed on a TV show and he was putting on this cockney persona a lot, making out that if he wasn't acting he'd be in prison for being a criminal.
Yeah, right, sure he would.
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I thought it (The Business) was fairly entertaining, there are some really funny scenes, some memorable quotes and the music is another strong point (unless you hate 80's music). the plot occasionally reminded me of a much better film, Goodfellas but, on the whole, this is the one of the better cockney crime movies in the last few years.