Twenty years after Britain's most notorious gangland murders, the next generation of Essex Boys vie for control as revenge is sought by all sides.Twenty years after Britain's most notorious gangland murders, the next generation of Essex Boys vie for control as revenge is sought by all sides.Twenty years after Britain's most notorious gangland murders, the next generation of Essex Boys vie for control as revenge is sought by all sides.
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Terrible script, terrible acting. I had to fast forward through large sections. The so called 'actors' are unbelievably bad, honestly they need to get another day job. Applies to main characters and side parts, including the foreign actors who can barely deliver their lines. Do not waste your time, even the current 4.2 rating is pushed up by the cast and crew who have gotten their friends to vote for the film. Real user rating will not be above 1/10. In summary, if you want an action film, a storyline, and do not want to lose an hour and a half of your life to actors who would better serve society and the arts by stacking shelves in a supermarket, please see other films. Life is too short for this drivel.
This has to be one of the worst films ever made on British gangsters.
Anyone who gives this a high score must be a friend or family.
Those of you who gave it a 10 please go out and get a life.
Do not watch this film.
0/10
Anyone who gives this a high score must be a friend or family.
Those of you who gave it a 10 please go out and get a life.
Do not watch this film.
0/10
Another awful British gangster movie!
Ever since Football factory was released we have been bombarded with crap like this for people trying to make a quick buck.
Don't get me wrong Rise Of the Foot Soldier was a brilliant movie and very dark and gritty with real believable characters and good acting unlike the mugs in this film!
And thats the point of it really the total unrealism of it all, Its supposed to be set in today which makes it silly as you just wouldn't get four average looking English blokes as gangsters and bank robbers.
The current underworld in London is mainly Russians and Albanians with the Asians running the heroin trade So when is someone going to make a realistic modern gangster movie other than this clichéd cockney hardman rubbish that died years ago?
In a summary don't waste 82 minutes of your life.
Ever since Football factory was released we have been bombarded with crap like this for people trying to make a quick buck.
Don't get me wrong Rise Of the Foot Soldier was a brilliant movie and very dark and gritty with real believable characters and good acting unlike the mugs in this film!
And thats the point of it really the total unrealism of it all, Its supposed to be set in today which makes it silly as you just wouldn't get four average looking English blokes as gangsters and bank robbers.
The current underworld in London is mainly Russians and Albanians with the Asians running the heroin trade So when is someone going to make a realistic modern gangster movie other than this clichéd cockney hardman rubbish that died years ago?
In a summary don't waste 82 minutes of your life.
Having just watched Rise of the Footsoldier, I thought I'd watch this.
Starring thingy, Kyle and Kye somebody, and another guy.
I don't believe that in the real underworld/club land, there would be anyone afraid of these 4 clowns. Like Ever! This film is so tenuously linked to the range rover films it doesn't compare. It's like comparing a Ferrari with a piece of cheese.
I blame the casting department who hired the worst choice actors for this sort of story. It is like hiring Barry from Eastenders to play Vito Corleone. No offence B.
And another thing... Previous reviews have stated 7/8 even 10 stars for this film. I wonder what they gave Goodfellas, shawshank, green mile etc.... 20 out of 10!?
Starring thingy, Kyle and Kye somebody, and another guy.
I don't believe that in the real underworld/club land, there would be anyone afraid of these 4 clowns. Like Ever! This film is so tenuously linked to the range rover films it doesn't compare. It's like comparing a Ferrari with a piece of cheese.
I blame the casting department who hired the worst choice actors for this sort of story. It is like hiring Barry from Eastenders to play Vito Corleone. No offence B.
And another thing... Previous reviews have stated 7/8 even 10 stars for this film. I wonder what they gave Goodfellas, shawshank, green mile etc.... 20 out of 10!?
I managed to watch about 15 minutes of this rubbish before finally turning it off. Acting is terrible and the storyline seems even worse.
Having watched the original Essex Boys, I was hoping for something similar, but this is just embarrassing.
I don't know whether the 4 main characters had to audition for the part, as there acting is terrible. I was actually cringing watching them trying to act!!
I was looking forward to another Lock Stock type film, or at least a half decent script, but this was truly shocking. Im annoyed that I wasted even 15 minutes of my time watching it.
Absolute rubbish
Having watched the original Essex Boys, I was hoping for something similar, but this is just embarrassing.
I don't know whether the 4 main characters had to audition for the part, as there acting is terrible. I was actually cringing watching them trying to act!!
I was looking forward to another Lock Stock type film, or at least a half decent script, but this was truly shocking. Im annoyed that I wasted even 15 minutes of my time watching it.
Absolute rubbish
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- TriviaAll entries contain spoilers
- GoofsThe police chief complained to Charlie that their surveillance team had put on weight because of the pizzas the gangs had delivered to them. Had the police known that their cover was being blown, they would've changed their plan, so they wouldn't have had pizzas delivered to them.
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D.I. Allen: What you're looking at here is the next generation of drug dealers.
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- Gangster Playboys Retribution
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- Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK(Seafront scene, amongst others.)
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- $1,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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