opinion about plot:
A bit from Scarface, a bit from Lock & stock, short time line and some creativity to mix it all up to make mediocre Brit-gang movie. The rise of skinner seemed to happen too fast, some of characters seemed to be unnecessary and of course the happy ending is some of the things which made this movie too predictable and too naive for its genre.
---//---- actors:
Skinner (Gregory) - overall good work although in some places it seemed that he is overacting the big boss role, but he somehow managed to pull it together
Martell (Madsen) - if you haven't seen Hell Ride, than his job in this piece looks very impressive - cool gangster type and so on, but if you seen it than it looks like The Gent is somehow traveled to UK - same style, same manners, well it looked like copy/paste work for him
Barber (Regan) - one moment he is English, next moment he is Russian in the end he is dead. Nice work for depicting mentally unbalanced mob-boss
Liza (Rosen) - you could put any model type girl in this role, give her stupid accent, sad history,and you got Liza. another boss-girl type performance
Conclusion:
If you have 2 hours of your time and there is nothing to do really, than go ahead, good way to spend time, but if you are a fan of this kind of movies, than better look something from the genre classics
A bit from Scarface, a bit from Lock & stock, short time line and some creativity to mix it all up to make mediocre Brit-gang movie. The rise of skinner seemed to happen too fast, some of characters seemed to be unnecessary and of course the happy ending is some of the things which made this movie too predictable and too naive for its genre.
---//---- actors:
Skinner (Gregory) - overall good work although in some places it seemed that he is overacting the big boss role, but he somehow managed to pull it together
Martell (Madsen) - if you haven't seen Hell Ride, than his job in this piece looks very impressive - cool gangster type and so on, but if you seen it than it looks like The Gent is somehow traveled to UK - same style, same manners, well it looked like copy/paste work for him
Barber (Regan) - one moment he is English, next moment he is Russian in the end he is dead. Nice work for depicting mentally unbalanced mob-boss
Liza (Rosen) - you could put any model type girl in this role, give her stupid accent, sad history,and you got Liza. another boss-girl type performance
Conclusion:
If you have 2 hours of your time and there is nothing to do really, than go ahead, good way to spend time, but if you are a fan of this kind of movies, than better look something from the genre classics