If I was going mix two film to describe this inventive film, I would probably say, Trainspotting meets Ali G Indahouse. It is about a hip-hop, dance, drugs, alcohol and smoke filled lifestyle, all with a group of five friends. These friends: Jip (Life on Mars's John Simm), Lulu (Lorraine Pilkington), Koop (The Mummy Returns' Shaun Parkes), Moff (Severance's Danny Dyer) and Nina (Nicola Reynolds) spend a lost weekend clubbing, loving and mixing (with as well) music. It mixes with Trainspotting with a group of friends and involving drugs, and it is like Ali G Indahouse with the hip-hop lifestyle and talking, thinking and acting cool, and possibly Jamaican. Also starring Dean Davies as Lee, Justin Kerrigan as Ziggy Marlon, Jo Brand as Mrs. Reality and Love Actually's Andrew Lincoln as Felix. There is some fantastic use of surrealism about what characters are thinking and want, great camera-work, and of course, fantastic dance and hip-hop music. It was nominated the BAFTA for the Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer for director Justin Kerrigan, and it won the Wales BAFTAs for the Cymru Award Best Camera - Drama, Best Director and Best Drama. Good!
Review of Human Traffic
