Sgt. Danny Bryant comes home from a tour of duty in Iraq to find that things aren't what they once were. A gang of thugs has moved into the neighbourhood, and his wife is with another man. Gene Dekker, is beaten up by thugs, and he sets out to get revenge on the men. Terence Manning, a gangster of London's underworld, is currently on trial, with lawyer Cedric Munroe heading the prosecution's legal team. Manning's men attack both Munroe's wife, and persuade Munroe's bodyguard Walter not to intervene. The men from an alliance, and set out to even the score against those who wronged them, though their contempt for the law puts them outside the lines of conventional justice.....Yes, it's a trashy, exploitative movie, but its one of my all time favourite guilty pleasures. And it's because its starts off silly, goes a little cuckoo in the middle, and then, the third act is just beyond, beyond bonkers.But Love is one of this directors that doesn't really do anything other than over the top British bulldog B-movies. And they are all full of another word beginning with B, but with his films, you can just switch off, and forget everything else for ninety or so minutes.The cast are all fine, and do what you would expect them all to do in films like this. Bean meets all the rest of the group whilst really angry, and this anger makes them angry, and Bob Hoskins is there to overlook everything.Imagine The Avengers after fifteen pints of strong Lager, and Pie and Chips?, then this is your movie.It's pretty visceral stuff, the camera work tries to make it look realistic, but it looks like it must have been cold on the day.To say the third act is beyond ridiculous is an understatement, but by the time it arrives, you couldn't care less.If you like this type of film, its a riot,if you don't, fair enough.

What the hell was that? It started right off with great potential: a soldier not knowing where he belongs to and why he should move on. An heavily beaten up employee with less self-confidence terrorized by one of his colleagues and one Crown Prosecutor not able to bring justice to criminals. Does sound really great, doesn't it? But all that just to NOT go any further and leaves you the whole amount of time unsatisfied. The author just ran in a dead end at the end of the movie. The enemy No. 1 kept never been seen, the guys that deserve a beating and are the motivation in the first place for the main characters to move on and do what they're doing just vanish. Not by story-arc but writing. They just have been forgotten. The conflict between one of the main characters is just a pathetic attempt to give more suspense but comes too fast, too hasty and indiscriminately and ends as fast as it began.Then the ending is a complete mess. A catastrophe. A totally unnecessary character's dead, more unnecessary than in B-Movies or several The Walking Dead episodes. But the worst is that the author didn't know how to end this unsatisfying terribleness. Before anything is explained the film ends suddenly leaving you with a big WTF expression on your face. It was like the author was thinking "How the heck do I end this pile of bad written characters and plot?" "What about cliffhanger?" "Oh right, that always comes in handy if you don't know how to move on! Let's just cut and fade to the credits." The only thing I've found enjoyable were the subtle, non-Hollywood like special effects and the acting.Seriously, I could have written the script better than Nick Love (sorry for the fans, but I'm just thinking it is THAT terrible).I would not watch it twice so neither should you (even once). I cannot recommend this movie. Better to spend your time with well written alternatives.

OK there are many reasons you should enjoy this film, they are exactly the same reasons that the film is terrible.We have a number of top British actors, men who have proved, time and again that they are capable of amazing acting.Some have appeared in films such as Snatch, Harry Brown and other British titles while Sean Bean and Bob Hoskins are internationally acclaimed actors that merit respect. You just have to watch Game of thrones or any one of Hoskins' previous films to see this. This film, however, takes these actors and uses them like finger puppets in a D grade attempt at cinema.The script is diabolical, the plot is beyond explanation and the cinematography looks as though an A level student filmed it. How hard is it to keep a camera still? During a court scene? Come on!These poor actors are taken through one god awful scene after another. Danny Dyer isn't know for his acting prowess but even he deserves better than this crap.From a plot point of view it's beyond a joke. Some previous reviews have named films such as Blair Witch as being worse, and I don't disagree but all you need is some knowledge of the different backgrounds of these characters to spot the plot holes.1. A barrister's wife is murdered while he is attempting to convict a known gangster and he believes there would be no reasonable way to prove the two are connected?2. Military personnel are in no way capable of removing firearms from stations as all firearms are coded and counted when returned. What, he would've just walked them out of the airbase in a holdall? 3. A head of security not having criminal background checks before getting the job? Being the only security person in the entire hotel and setting up his own cameras in the rooms which are supposedly hidden but are big enough for Sean Bean's character to throw a shirt over and easily spotted enough to do this?If you want to see these actors in good films or shows watch;Sean Bean; Game of Thrones. Danny Dyer; Football Factory. Lennie James; Snatch. Sean Harris; The Borgias, Brighton Rock, Harry Brown. Rupert friend; The young Victoria. Bob Hoskins; Generally any of his other films or Unleashed is a good British one he did recently. Leave this to burn.

I had high hopes for this one, I loved the director's previous work the football factory and this had a great cast, hoskins, bean, dyer etc. However, Director Nick Love does a very poor job here, he's trying to create a satire on modern Britain and throw in a lot of violence to make it a present dat "death wish" vigilante movie but that fails on both counts. Character development is appalling, I was scratching my head here more than I've ever done in a movie, some of the plot inconsistencies were just laughable, other posters have mentioned the specifics so I wont go into details here. Love should stick to his bread and butter of football hooligans, he went over his head here and created an instantly forgettable film.