Personally I had never seen this film before, but it was a very good film. It definitely gets across the message of what it’s like to live the life of a criminal in London having gang wars trying to gain the most respect, having the most cash and generally blowing anyone’s head off who as so much as breathes near you.
It followed the character Eddie, who is tricked into playing a fixed card game, in which he ‘loses’ and owes (the bad guy) Harry £50,000 and Eddies fathers bar. If he doesn’t deliver then Harry is going to break a finger off each of his friends hands and himself for each day the money is overdue, having only one week to acquire the money Eddie is pretty much in the sh*t! BIG TIME!
A few days pass and Eddie and his friend decide to steal from a gang of thieves that have a ton of stolen drugs, in which they could sell for a high price, but however they basically try to sell back what they had stolen from the thieves to their leader Rory who’s a gangster and gets everything he wants. Rory realises that the drugs are his own and were stolen in which he isn’t pleased about. Meanwhile Harry orders two criminals to steal two antique shotguns, at this point it confused me of what they actually want the shotguns for, but it’s a big race for everyone to find these shot guns.
‘Big Chris’ who is Harry’s main man for finding people and collecting what they own him is threatened by another character named Dog in which to take back the stolen shot guns which Chris had originally taken from him, in which eventually ends up in Chris beating him to death (literally) with his car door after crashing right into him (just nice). Eventually it ends up in a big shootout between Rory and Eddie and his friends, in which everyone more or less dies but they manage to get the two guns, Eddie and his friends are arrested but found innocent. After everything being resolved it ends in funnily enough way of them founding out how much the guns are actually worth but this is all after they tell one of the four friends to get rid of the guns.
To sum up the movie confused me slightly about what is going on with the two guns, but I think Harry knew how much they were worth and it sort follows the story of Eddie is in debt towards Harry but they add in the story of the guns to follow on as eventually Eddie and his friend getting hold of the guns and possibly being able to pay off the debt and not giving away his father’s bar. It’s sort of a big story following different gangs all after the same thing and tells you that nothing is a joke inside the world of gangsters. I found the movie very good with its funny moments and it was good to see the culture of living in the rough and tough streets of London. There so many American films about mobs trying to gain power, money, respect and women, which is basically what all these crime films are about but it was a refreshing change to see a British film about it, and in my opinion British gangs are a lot tougher and scarier than any American gang after seeing this. It was funny and witty with a good story line, a bit brutal (but that was expected) and just generally nice to see British culture which made it a bit more understandable than other crime foreign crime films.
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