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• george said...

  Posted on Nov 10 2009 23:08 the rise of the foot soldier is a very well made film with strong performances from a good cast(tony tuckers amusing wig and carlton leach,s sudden change in appearence along with his silly inter city firm-IRA remark apart).this film shows what a total bunch of drugged up egotistical vain lot the so called essex boys were.you have carlton leach's narration of his story until pat tate,tony tucker and craig rolfe enter the story.from then on it is about them and all the evil things they got up to whilst being out of their minds on steroids and all manner of narcotics,such as dishing out torture and beatings to other criminals(one drug dealer gets injected with a lethal amount of drugs over a debt owed to tucker)to beating a waiter to a pulp and slicing up a pizza parlour manager up over a certain type of pizza one of their little tarts could'nt order because it was'nt on the menu.carlton leach is afootball hooligan who then becomes a club doorman as well as protecting drug deals with some torture of drug dealers who rip of other drug dealers.he also wants to go to war with the turkish mafia after they torture his friends over 10million pounds of heroin his friends were supposed to be keeping an eye on goes missing.the problem with carlton leach is you have to be very wary of what he says is true as he seems to twist and invent things to make himself look far more relevant to this story as has been well documented on other posts on this site.plus his none existant time spent in jail along with his sudden switch from main character to voice over storyteller for the latter part of this film seems to confirm that he was not as important to this story or the essex under world as he would like people to belive.after a drugs deal goes wrong set up by mickey steele(serving a disputed by many life sentence)involving a mainly useless quality large dope import from amsterdam,tate tucker and rolfe are lured to an isolated woody lane in rettendon where they get their heads and their guts blown off in the range rover they drove there in.there are three theories then put forward in the film.1st is that it was the police wanting to get rid of three unhinged drug dealers who had caused the death of teenagers through bad batches of exstacy(leah betts whos father was an ex cop,died after she took exstacy from tuckers club)the.2nd is that they had ripped off so many people in the essex underworld they were put a stop to by some feared underworld players,and the 3rd is that mickey steele had lured them there with a non existant cocaine smuggling deal that was about to go down in a day or two,where tate,tucker and rolfe would rob the cocaine.however mickey steele and an accomplice killed the three of them as pate tate had earlier threatend to kill mickey steele over the amsterdam dope deal.there are no characters you care for as not one of them are remotely likable.infact you just just end up feeling that they all deserve what they get.they all come across as selfish,moraless,untrustworthy,money orientated ego trips who dont care what or who they destroy in their quest for cash.very good acting all round(but the mockney talk is a little cringe worthy at times and it is true there are a few funny bits that are not meant to be).well worth watching as it shows these so called gezzers for the rotten excuses for human beings for what they really are.dont miss it.

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• j carrington said...

  Posted on Nov 09 2009 12:08 The Average user rating says it all, Time out obviously shouldnt be doing film reviews if there captive audience all rate it a 5 and they rate it a 1, VERY STRANGE, obviously the reviewer just didnt get the movie, for me Craig Fairbrass in amazing in this film such a scary chracter, the film is brilliant and is a MUST WATCH

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• Markus said...

  Posted on Nov 09 2009 01:02 Alright I saw this movie at my sisters house, i was shocked by the brutality and excessiveness of the violence portrayed, however, the violence was literally like this (except for maybe the copious amounts of blood being spat during the hooligan scenes). My uncle lived in the U.K during the time of the holliganism and it was literally as violent as those events portrayed, and I quote him "there were running street battles involving hundreds of these assholes". great film, though probably bending the truth in Leach's involvement, I was thoroiughly entertained and will be showing it to many of my friends

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• debbie said...

  Posted on Nov 09 2009 00:10 i also watched this film with the last two reveiwers and i have to say i totaly agree with them both.there are no characters in the film who you could feel any kind of sympathy for.and there were parts of it that were funny even though it was unintensionaly so,leach's complete physical transformation,his boast about the inter city firm being put on a par with the IRA and of course tony tuckers wig which looked like he had a red sqirrel which had been run over then stuck on his head.a film about horrible people who all got what they deserved.and the real icing on the cake is it now seems that carlton leach is a bit of a spoofer.ok he was a hooligan,doorman and a debt collector,but if he was such a big name in the underworld why has he never served a prison sentence or been on trial for any well known crimes,coslets face it with a mouth as loose as his its a miricale he never has.or could it be what he says aint all true?

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• eddie said...

  Posted on Nov 08 2009 18:48 i watched this film with the last reviewer ritchie along with a few other guys and girls.all the characters start of unlikable and get progressively more despisable as the film goes on.there were afew unintentionable laugh out loud moments too,ie-carlton leach's claim that the inter city firm were being compared to the IRA by the media,then after he marries his 1st wife his physical shape and size change from tall and gangly to short and muscular(he must have fallen into a compresser)!the room was rocking with laughter when tony tucker and his wig made their appearence on screen.i checked carlton leach's book muscle in waterstones and on page 45 he does state he turned down an offer by bernard o'mahoney who had visiting passes to see reg kray because he didnt want to be on the kray bandwagon,and in the updated version of muscle renamed rise of the foot soldier it has been removed,instead on the last section of pictures is a message claiming to be from reg kray thanking carlton for all his support over the years.considering tht both books were published after reg kray was dead it is obvious carlton leach aint telling the truth.also on the same page(45)he also says he was at tony tuckers 40th birthday party,two weeks before tucker was murdered at hollywoods nightclub in romford,therefore stating another blatent untruth as tony tucker was 38 when he was killed.so its no wonder people aresceptical as to how much of an underworld figure carlton leach really was.anyway back to the film,its basicaly a load of unlikable steriodfreaks how are also out of there brains on every narcotic under the soon who go around torturing and robbing other drug dealers.and as for the rise of carlton leach he becomes a doorman and a torturer for drug dealers who cant go to the police when they are ripped off,so they use leach to nail people to the floor(another laugh out loud moment if you have seen monty pythons send up of the krays in a sketch called the pirhana brothers).when pat tate,tony tucker(and wig) and craig rolfe come into the film carlton leach just narrates for the most part about them.they are three dispicable steroid and narcotic addicts who carve up and beat everyone from fastfood waiters to other criminals,as well as ripping off everyone they seem to come into contact with until the three of them get blown to kingdomcome in a range rover in a country lane in rettendon.and you cant feel any pity for any of them or nearly anyone else in the film.and what with carlton leach's claims about wanting to go to war with the turkish mafia over them torturing his mates over 10million pounds worth of missing heroin,well why would the police need to do any undercover survalence work when all they have to do is read carltons book should they wish to reinvestigate any essex underworld figures.but then again this is a man who claims the intr city firm were regarded by the media as the biggest menace since the IRA.so they may just take him with a pinch of salt!

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• ritchie said...

  Posted on Nov 08 2009 09:49 rise of the foot soldiers direction style is a total rip off of casino and goodfellas by martin scorsese.its main character carlton leach is a football hooligan who says in the films narrative that the inter city firm were regarded by the media as the'biggest threat since the ira'.this got an unintentional burst of laughter from myself and those who were watching rise of the foot soldier with me.anyway he then rises to the dizzy heights of club doorman.after getting done over by millwalls hooligans he retires from the terraces.not exactly the john gotti or al capone story.then he wants to go to war with the turkish mafia after they torture his pals over 10million pounds of heroin the turkish mafia claim his pals took.if this is true it does not say much for carlton leach keeping secrets as he has announced to the whole world via this film and his book just what the turkish mafia are into.but of course thats only if it is true.and with some of the little porkies he has told about other thngs you cant but help being sceptical.then all of a sudden he takes a back seat for the rest of the film as three other men(tate,tucker and rolfe)dominate the rest of the film.these three achive the amazing feat of being even more unlikable than all the others characters in the film!after they all shovel drugs and steroids into their bodies and go around causing needless violence and ripping people of whilst dealing in drugs,these three charmers(tate,tucker and rolfe)get blown away which they bring on to themselves through their own greed and stupidity.thanks to these three and others of their ilk a few teenagers died through taking dangerous batches of ecstasy(leah betts died after taking ecstacy in tuckers club).we then get three different theories as to who killed these three unlikable drug dealers.at the end of the film you feel absolutley no sympathy for anyone.but the film is well worth watching as it is well acted with a good cast.i dont know if it was the directors intention or not,but this film shows these unlikable people for what they are,unlikable!oh and by the way some of the dialogue is unintentionaly funny mockney.

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• alex said...

  Posted on Nov 04 2009 22:32 this film is well acted even though some of the script is toe curlingly mockney.whilst it is an entertaining film it does not say much for the so called code of silence in the underworld.carlton leach has told his version of events in his book called muscleas well as in this film.so anyone from joe public to law enforcement agencies now know what a lot of people in the essex underworld got up to if mr leach is to be belived.FACT-carlton leach has never served a prison sentence.FACT-carlton leach has totaly changed his story in regards to not wanting to be a krays cronie to being a great help over the years to reg kray.FACT-carlton leach said he was at his close freind tony tuckers 40th birthday party when infact tony tucker was 38 when he was murdered.FACT-carlton leach has gone public to say the turkish mafia are involved in heroin distribution on a huge scale and that some of his firm were also involved too.as has already been stated on this site,the reason carlton leach becomes a bit player in the latter part of this film is because his actual story would not have made very good veiwing compared to the rettendon murders or the drug induced antics and needless mayhem that was tucker,tate and rolfe.FACT-carlton leach was a football hooligan.FACT-carlton leach was a doorman.FACT- carlton leach is a debt collector.FACT-carlton leach had to pay off the late lenny mclean to stop any hassle from the late hardman.FACT-carlton leach has never stood trial for anything that has made anyone,be it the public, the media or the underworld sit up and take interest.the rise of the footsoldier is well worth watching and yes carlton leach is a hardman but an important underworld figure?the facts seem to speake for themselves.still at least he has the brains to make a lot of money out of it for himself,even though he does seem to have artistic license when it comes to the real facts.good luck to him,he is only making money off the backs of alot of incredibley unlikable people who seem to have had no morals at all.as i said at the start of this post,so much for the underworld code of silence!

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• teresa said...

  Posted on Nov 03 2009 22:22 rise of the footsoldier is a very entertaining film and while there is no doubt that carlton leach was a football hooligan and a doorman with a reputation,he is dropped as a main character in the latter part of the film as he has never stood trial for anything of note nor has he ever been in prison.unfortunetly what has been stated in the reveiw by john(3posts before this one)is true in that carlton leach seems to 'SPIN A GOOD YARN'for cash.as much as it is a good film there is not one character in it(apart from leach's1st wife)for whom you can feel any kind of pity or sympathy for.its about a lot of people who deal in death and misery,ie narcotics,who were all responcable through there own greed for there own fates.what is so great about people who in the end are vain,untrustworthy,murderers who would rip anyone off whilst being unhinged on steroids and other narcotics.it is a good film but a more apt title may have been'NOT VERY BRIGHT NARCOTIC AND STEROID ABUSERS RIUN THEIR LIVES AS WELL AS THOSE AROUND THEM!

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• Simon said...

  Posted on Oct 30 2009 15:16 Top film, all the negative monkeys on this site obviously didn’t get it! I bet as soon as the film finished you all Googled Carlton Leach. Just shows it had some impact on you.

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• stewart ross hannan said...

  Posted on Oct 29 2009 18:53 in 2006 i was admitted to elgar ward in epsom general hospital in there i pretended to be obsessed with the range rover murders and fleetingly took the piss i was given a drug before i went in and my dick was 7 inches long on the slack the second half of the film is merely me taking the piss out of the whole thing for example whats that? yeah i can see its the fucking bill but i didnt ask for it did i theres a line in it which says im going into semi retirement igi= 25 sr jd=nc squared x=mc squared ro=-s squared my name find the three jacks in the mona lisa as in the skeleton on the zodiac killers letters mon 42 ali 22 sa 20 42 is reverse 24 add your first name together and reverse the number ali the 11th playing card is a jack so add your second name together and half it sa 1 plus 9 plus 1 is eleven add your surname together individually do it with my name adds up to 661.5 im the devil someone changed my guitar stem to 23 frets and moved the top dot so the centre was 3 strings . 14 do you understand the film is nothing like the book by the way the essex boys book that is i was born on the 17th of november 1978 now watch the film

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• john said...

  Posted on Oct 07 2009 22:55 rise of the foot soldier is based on carlton leach's book muscle,in which leach states he was at tony tucker's 40th birthday party,yet all the archive material on the rettendon murders clearly state that tony tucker was 38 when he was killed.leach also states in his book muscle that he turned down an offer to visit reg kray in prison as he did not want to be part of the'oh yes ive been to see reggie kray'crowd.yet this has been removed from the revamped version of muscle(renamed rise of the foot soldier)and in the pictures sections of the revamped book is a supposedly written message from reg kray thanking him(carlton leach) for all his support over the years!leach also claims some of his 'firm'were falsely accussed and tortured by the turkish mafia over 10milliion pounds worth of heroin that went missing.if this is true why would he go public about it as the police would be down on him and his 'firm'like a ton of bricks.and i doubt that the turkish mafia would be too pleased with him telling the public that they (the turkish mafia)are involved in heroin smuggling on a massive scale scale.but then of course carlton leach has never served a prison sentence in his in his life.and as for his closeness to the three men murdered at rettendon in december 1995,it cant be confirmed just how close he was to them by the men as they are all long since dead.dont get me wrong as a film the rise of the foot soldier is a good film(even if some of the dialouge is mockney)but if you were a sceptic you might just think carlton leach is good at spinning yarns and making himself some nice cash with it.fair play to him,as they say theres one born every minute!

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• leviss said...

  Posted on Oct 02 2009 22:50 Easy watch ,, Typical gang land story in any uk city large town ,, thursday night watch with the lads , drinking, poker and a smoke ,, If this film is worth 5 stars then Fack elp us

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• bob said...

  Posted on Sep 14 2009 08:10 THIS MOVIE IS AWSOME

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• Pete said...

  Posted on Aug 25 2009 12:15 Good film ..Ricci was a freind of my nephews ,hes so underrated as an actor ,and one of the nicest blokes ya could meet .Well done Ricci ya played the part well ...Quinten ..take note ..

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• tony said...

  Posted on Jul 04 2009 10:47 this film is the best film ive ever seen,the acting was great along with the truth of it all.there was no beeting about the bush what you see in the film is what you get.it was facking amazing,seen the film 4 times up to press and ive noticed different things each time.what a story

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