The Estate

Upon watching this film I went in with not very high expectations after seeing some current reviews already posted on here. But I watches The Estate anyway in hopes of finding my own opinion.

Unfortunately, most of what has been mentioned is true; this film comes across as poorly written, bad camera-work, amateur acting and a disappointing storyline.

This film isn't for the faint of heart, it displays grittiness, a tough honesty about crime that is currently apparent in some areas of London. It includes some sometimes half naked ladies and the usually hard to understand language used by the young characters. Oh and don't forget swearing, the is an awful lot of swearing involved, mostly unnecessary but always present in many different forms of vulgar language.

The main reason for these issues are due to one problem; budget. Unfortunately the budget was very low for this film and it clearly shows as it comes across as an overall difficult film to watch, not only because of the grittiness of the film, but the quality of the camera-work and editing, or otherwise, lack of editing, hinder The Estate greatly.

Although this has all been said, the overall message for this film and the realism portrayed as best it can is of a great standard. Although the acting at times isn't of an amazing standard, the realism that the characters convey about the real-life situations these people are put in are accurate.

The overall message that Steven Drew is trying to put across through the film is clearly apparent, and it is a strong message of that. The side of gang crime he approaches is that of what happens behind the sometimes glamorised violence included in many crime films. It approaches the affected lives of those behind the scenes and the reach the effect of crime has.

Overall this film has a good intention to put across a good story and an important moral reality to what is currently happening in some rougher areas of London. Unfortunately this film is hindered by the lack of budget which would otherwise increase the overall quality of the film.

I would recommend watching this film for the verisimilitude and message it conveys, not for the production quality.

I don't understand peeps negative comments, some of you have never been on an estate let alone walked through one, the portrayal is real.

This film might have not had a major budget but its shows gangs, drugs, corrupt police, and crime this is all relevant today and the film maker did a good job bringing it all to the surface,

I also like the way the film focuses on the people who live on the estate, Elderly people never really get represented in movies nowadays, so well done for focusing on what they experience on a day to day basis.

Good film!

ticks the box for me Geez

the film was terrible the story was all over the place and it was really low budgeted i mean i like how British films are low budgeted i think it shows more realism. but this was too low budgeted, i dunno i was expecting more of a football factory, dead man shoes kind of filming to it but it wasn't it was more get a group of people together to make a film with a digital camera lol. Now ill talk about the story line its basically on an estate in London where there's a lot of gangs and crimes going on and basically goes from on story line to the next for example there's a girl who ends up taking drugs and becoming a prostitute, there's a guy who beats on a lads mum,there's corrupt coppers that kinda thing but i just thought it was all over the place. so finally i don't rate this film at all I've seen a lot of good British films and this ain't one of em.

Utterly dreadful, can only say that it was plot less,meaningless,poorly acted and anything else thats wrong. There is a HUGE "BUT" however... it is a pretty accurate portrayal of life in the UK, and the big concern is that these cereal thugs are the 'future' of this country. The only people who could benefit form this are those who believe that life in Britain today is pretty little shops, cricket on the village green and cucumber sandwiches. "Harry Brown" was a much better film on every level, and that too portrayed the real harsh realities of life that decent people have to contend with living in urban Britain. It's not really worth watching this film unless you didn't already know about hoodie/chav culture, and the giggles you get from ''youff workers'' who blame everyone for these thugs except accept the fact that there is a huge degree of contempt and lawlessness from these feral animals.

I really thought that British cinema had reached an all time low when Danny Dyer started pumping out around 300 movies a year... that was until I saw this waste of film.

With virtually no plot, terrible acting and even worse camera work this is a movie that would make even Uwe Boll cringe. Featuring cameos from various true life "gangsters" the story is supposed to focus on Ronnie, a youth who descends in to the seedy world of violence and drugs. However it soon dismisses this plot for a seemingly never-ending stream of swear words (that are supposed to add to the "grittiness" of this movie....Honestly, I've had grittier water) and chest thrusting between rival Hoodie gangs. The phrase "yeah come on then, you want some?" was uttered so many times I honestly felt that was the only thing the script writer actually wrote and, my friends, that sums up this movie in a nutshell. It's an hour and a half of not much at all. In fact, on closer inspection it seems like it's trying to come across as a poor man's "This Is England" only set in modern times.

If you have an hour and a half to spare I suggest you find something else to do because after watching this you'll be tempted to contact the makers and demand those 90 minutes back.