I found this by mistake and it was a surprisingly good movie, I had never heard of it and I am not familiar of the actors but it was a fun movie to watch.

Title says it all...The Costa Del Sol (Marbella) setting in those 80's were astonishing. I could never ask for a better movie setting to go along with a scarface dreamer film.The acting wasn't perfect, but I mostly admired the story.. and that same story is true on the count of many organized crime figures who flew from the UK, Scandinavia, and Russia to avoid persecution & extradition.What I mostly love about the film is that during the period where it's supposed to be portrayed (80's), this is actually the golden age of Marbella. If you go there now, it's filled with English, Scandinavian and Russian drunks who have exploited this city for it's treasures and not only that.. but they are still residing in it.. only true beauty to Costa del Sol at this moment is to buy a multi million euro mansion there and enjoy the scenery.Other than that, The Business can show you a great deal of the kind of heaven Marbella was.

The Business is rather like fast food: eating it is pleasant enough, but it's nothing special, really, and at the end of it, you rather wish you'd held out for something rather more sophisticated. For what it is, The Business isn't half bad. The trouble is, however, that what it is is nothing particularly special. The main things which makes it stand apart from any number of similar films is that the gangsters are British, the attitude is British and the humour is British. Ironically, for a film that is largely derivative, it is well-made and if writer/director Nick Love doesn't seem to have too many original ideas - at least on this showing - he does have a good cinematographer's eye. The screenplay is a little wayward (and even watching the DVD's deleted scenes didn't help in finding out why so much was unexplained. And, frankly, one or two aspects of the plot were ludicrous: the gunning down of three Dutch gangsters in the street didn't elicit any interest from the police. And why does nothing come of the would-be raid to murder the mayor when one of the Brit gangsters literally loses his head? But then perhaps I am expecting things from this film it was never expected to deliver and really can't be bothered to deliver. Fast food, you see. It might, nutritionally be b******s, but it does the business if that's your bag. The Business, its dialogue, the language, the women, the motivation - everything about it, really - reminded me of a lads' mag transposed to the silver screen. You could just see all the wannabes in the audience troop out of the cinema and get into their souped-up ten-year-old Fords and for a moment or two pretend they are Frankie driving a Porsche along in Southern Spain. This film isn't deep, but then it wasn't intended to be. It does, as the ad says, what it says on the tin, and, I suppose, it does it rather well.

The plot: Frankie, a young lad on the run from the grimy ghetto of South London, plans his escape and the beginnings of a new life in sunny Spain - the Costa Del Sol to be more precise. Armed with nothing but a bundle of cash stashed in his luggage he heads off, yet Frankie has no idea that this sum of money will catapult him into the seductive world of ex-gangster Charlie. Before he knows it Frankie's got more then he bargained for - he's one of Charlie's gang and slap bang in the middle of the heady world of organized crime.What does it have in common with Scarface? It portrays the rise and fall of a character in crime who starts off as an average guy until he gets in contact with the ?right? people. He also has a friend and partner in crime who rises and falls with him. Another similarity is the cheesy 80's soundtrack. This one is very British, but it's just as obtrusive, although I think it doesn't quite work here. Probably because it is British and I don't exactly associate British with cool. Since coming off as cool apparently was the intention I can't say it succeeded here. I would guess that half the budget or more was spent on the soundtrack alone, most of them are well known tracks.What does it have in common with El Mariachi?It's cheap. It looks more cheap than it actually was, but this independent movie feeling never goes away. It wouldn't have been a bad move if they saved some money from the soundtrack and instead got a decent camera operator, for example. One who can pan sideways without shaking the camera up and down. It is a bright and sunny film, although not as dusty. Also, it tries to win the audience over with gun slinging. This is always cool and doesn't cost much money, right?What's the big difference to Scarface?It starts off more like Goodfellas, rather than Scarface. The young main character, Frankie, is introduced to an underworld new to him. The audience discovers this world along with him. Other than in Scarface the main character always has his friend and partner standing above him. Imagine: The movie Scarface told from Manny's (Steven Bauer) perspective.Quality-wise it didn't convince me. It's decently original but not written too well. To me it was a rather uninvolving experience.