When a man is released from prison for his involvement in a white nationalist gang, he begins to uncover the truth behind his troubled past with violent consequences.When a man is released from prison for his involvement in a white nationalist gang, he begins to uncover the truth behind his troubled past with violent consequences.When a man is released from prison for his involvement in a white nationalist gang, he begins to uncover the truth behind his troubled past with violent consequences.
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BRITISH MADE is the first feature film by Godiva Films, written and directed by Simon Rickards, it follows Daniel (James Knapp), a young man released from prison for his involvement with a far-right nationalist group, as he attempts to rebuild his life and uncover the truth behind his troubled past leading to violent consequences. It's a pretty low budget affair and was marketed as a football hooligan type film which really undersells it, people going into this movie expecting another Danny Dyer type Football Factory movie will be very disappointed. The directors passion for social realism and drama really shines through, it is a grim and pretty depressing drama, and is indebted to British film-makers such as Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Shane Meadows, Lynne Ramsey and Danny Boyle, who all made very high quality films with low budgets. Written over a two-year period, with the director researching the subject intensively and always trying to base the script on real-life events, the film was selected for many film festivals around the world throughout 2019 and 2020 and won numerous awards. Screenings were held in London and it is available to stream on Amazon Prime video
Excellent film from a little known director / writer. Gritty, contemporary and realistic. A gruelling experience in the last 15 minutes. But wholly enjoyable and original.
Some decent acting and enough of a story to make it well worth watching but British Made still somehow falls short of being anything more than just a bit 'meh'.
This film misleads you with its discription, making you think this is going to be an aggressive, action packed movie but it turned out to be so boring and just cliche. The acting is awful (ameteur), and the storyline is so basic and predictable that the I actually skipped the last 20 minutes because I knew what was going to happen in the end and I was right. You think he's going to be some crazy-tough, aggressive neo nazi bloke, but he ends up being a really skinny, soft teenager attempting very poorly to be constantly angry at everything and its just cringey. Was he like the only option they had for the protagonist or something. The camera angles are awful like the director is a 12 year old making a YoutTube video. And it's such a bad camera it looks like it's been filmed on an iphone 4s.
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- TriviaMany of the far-right symbols and paraphernalia in the film are based on researched images of real-life examples. The flyer that is handed to Daniel contains deliberate errors with grammar and on the art work, mimicking mistakes found on the researched ones.
- GoofsThe Flyers from the BPU shows the English Union flag [called the Union Jack when displayed on a boat] spread over the whole country of Ireland, as well as Northern Ireland. Ireland, as opposed to Northern Ireland, is a free and independent country and the Union flag should only have reached up to the boarders of Ireland in the flyer and not surpassed the Northern Ireland lines. Northern Ireland is British territory only.
- ConnectionsReferences Made in Britain (1983)
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- The Mildmay Club, 33-34 Newington Green, London, N16 9PR, England, UK.(H.Q. of the BPU and the defunct N.S.)
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- 1h 38m(98 min)
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