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Director: Alex de Rakoff
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From Time Out London
When illness causes his mother (Brenda Blethyn) to need a wheelchair, doting con Nick Kane (Tamer Hassan) goes straight, opening a travel agency with a £100,000 loan from sinister gangster, Mr Thigo (50 Cent). But when the credit crunch bites, mean-spirited Mr Thigo calls in his loan and gives Nick 24 hours to pay – or his mum gets it. With best mate Bing (Danny Dyer) in tow, Nick first tries to raise the readies legally but soon slips back into his old ways of intimidation and violence.Partly financed by footballers Rio Ferdinand and Ashley Cole, this budget-conscious, simplistically plotted and often cringingly performed crime caper is not quite as inauspicious a producing debut as one might have expected. Granted, its message is contradictory – on one hand it drums home the old ‘crime doesn’t pay’ adage, while on the other it demonstrates exactly the opposite – but its lighthearted, comic tone proves relatively genial. And Blethyn’s a right laugh as the gaga mum with a mite more gumption than first meets the eye.
Author: Derek Adams
Time Out London Issue 2045, Oct 29 – Nov 4 2009
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- janey said...
- Posted on Nov 14 2009 19:03 Me and my girlies loved the film. Its very cool and humerous at times. Tammer and Danny always a winning combination
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- carol mason said...
- Posted on Nov 07 2009 12:20 waste of time. setting was great. You just want to be in that sea.Film kept waiting for it to start.
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Posted on Nov 05 2009 01:25
SERIOUSLY THE BEST BRITISH MOVIE IN TIME...BETTER THAN MJ'S FILM, BETTER THAN JENNIFER'S BODY.
PROBABLY THE BEST MOVIE SHOWING IN THE UK RIGHT NOW...
GREAT STODY, DIRECTION AND A GREAT THRILLER MOVIE...GOTTA LOVE THE ENDING...
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Cast & crew
Director: Alex de Rakoff
Cast: Tamer Hassan, Danny Dyer, Brenda Blethyn
Genre(s): Gangsters
Rated: 15
Duration: 92 mins
UK Release: Oct 30 2009
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