This slice of British realism marked the directorial debut of actor Dexter Fletcher and has all the propensity for sentimentality but Fletcher keeps things suitably tough and the highest compliment I can pay it is that it's as good as the best of British television. Fletcher also co-wrote the film, (with Danny King), and brings both a good deal of humour and tenderness to proceedings. He also draws excellent performances from his cast. In the title role, Charlie Creed-Miles is outstanding as the father, recently released from prison, trying to forge some kind of relationship with his two young sons, (Will Poulter and Sammy Williams, both first-rate). Worth seeking out.

WILD BILL might've been more appropriately titled DEAN'S DILEMMA; it's more about the struggle of the two abandoned sons than the wayward father. "Wild Bill" serves more as the deus ex machina than anything else: he steps in to save the day in the end, but it's too pat for my tastes- and the bar fight LOOKS like a carefully choreographed bar fight. The real star of this movie is Will Poulter as Dean, the eldest of Bill's two sons. When Dad is released from jail and delivered drunk to the flat where the two boys are squatting, he comes around and groggily wonders, "Where am I...?" Dean responds: "That's funny- been wondering the same thing for the past eight years." He doesn't want anything from his old man but his name on a form that will allow the two siblings to remain in the flat. Bill: "I felt bad about missin' your birthday." "Oh, yeah?" Dean counters: "Which one...?" When someone calls him a runaway, Dean sets her straight: "I didn't run away from home, all right? Home ran away from ME." Had the filmmakers focused more on the kids than the "father," I'd rate WILD BILL a ten. Although the ending is great, it's the aforementioned lack of Proper Focus that makes it less than it might've been.

This was more than expected!!! Excellent all the Actors get a 10!! and a 11!! for the young man that was born to be an Actor Will Poulter(Dean) A movie well done. This was more than expected!!! Excellent all the Actors get a 10!! and a 11!! for the young man that was born to be an Actor Will Poulter(Dean) A movie well done. This was more than expected!!! Excellent all the Actors get a 10!! and a 11!! for the young man that was born to be an Actor Will Poulter(Dean) A movie well done. This was more than expected!!! Excellent all the Actors get a 10!! and a 11!! for the young man that was born to be an Actor Will Poulter(Dean) A movie well done. This was more than expected!!! Excellent all the Actors get a 10!! and a 11!! for the young man that was born to be an Actor Will Poulter(Dean) A movie well done.

What do you do when you come back home after serving time, and find your children abandoned by their mother, fending for themselves in their apartment. What do you do, when to add to your miseries the social service gives you one final warning to either mend your ways, or lose your family forever.I can't say much about us, but Wild Bill Hayward (Charlie Creed-Miles) works as a human signpost. He can't risk it and wants to set the broken pieces right. His elder son Dean (Will Poulter) is a no nonsense guy. A tough life in the absence of his parents has made him being worked up all the time.But the crown goes to Jimmy (Sammy Williams) who is the sweetest kid in the block, and is successfully, and willingly lured by the drug peddlers, and the local drug dealer. He is the one who seems to have inherited his father's genes perhaps. But Bill knows that he has to fight back. He has to keep Jimmy out of harms way, and in his mission, he is arrested again for breaking the terms of the parole.The story of the film is good, but the way it has been scripted and has been shot makes that difference, and makes it a winner.Two classy scenes that's a must watch. The scene where Bill makes a paper airplane and propels it to take a wonderful flight from his balcony much to the delight of Jimmy.The second one is the last scene, when he tells the cop as he is about to be driven away on the police car. "They are my boys. I am their dad", and then he cries almost inconsolably. I still feel that powerful emotion while I am writing this review.It's a must watch movie that would remind you of the style in Tyrannosaur and most of the attitude in Attack the Block. Go for it.Indiekaleidoscope