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4.0 out of 5 stars
Gangsters, Assasins, Yardies and London- GREAT STUFF, 19 Nov 2000
Well. Holywood spues out a load of rubbish each month, most of which get loads of publicity and gets released at the cinema. You then get a film, that was made on a low budget, had no publicity, no cinema release and is FANTASTIC. Set in London, Mathew Palmer wants out of the syndicate, even though he is one of their top hit men, however, the syndicate aren't that understanding, so they send people to kill him. And, to top it all off, he's having trouble with his girlfriend. Any one who lives near London (like me) will feel right at home with this. It's funny, smart, stylish, occasionly violent (allthough not over the top)and most of all good fun. The DVD also contains a trailer and an interesting 30 minute documentry as to how they made the film, which is very handy if you're into making short films (like me...again) Bye it, See it, Enjoy it. That's all i can say.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great low budget movie, 19 Oct 2003
What a gem of a movie, its low budget grants you but fantastically directed and brilliantly performed, this is one low budget film you won’t want to miss. I beg you to find it at your video shop buy it or rent it then and only then will you know what I’m talking about.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
The Killing Zone, 24 Jan 2003
By A Customer
Low budget thriller claiming to be in the vain of Get Carter and the Ipcress File, the trouble is it plays more like a rip off than an homage. Matthew Palmer is a hit man or a computer sales man so his girlfriends thinks, and we follow him as he performs three jobs in his chosen profession. The cast is formed of many faces you'll know from British TV but none that you could name, of which the stand out performance clearly belongs to Padraig Casey, who is consistently watchable as the cold hit man Palmer. The problems with this film do not lie in the performances but in the dialog the actors have to speak. How seriously can you really take a hit man who says in earnest "Michael Cain is the bees knees" Or his comic relief best friend who spiels out a long, long monolog about how if popular music is played in a supermarket it is instantly a classic? you will be pleased to know (as I was) that this philosophy is quickly shot down and shown to be the bull s**t it really is. I continually got the feeling that the script writer has been trying to emulate the pop culture jargon of Quentin Tarantino, but with out his success. This film is also prey to major miscasting in some of the rolls, The Blond Lady who plays the female killer is not threatening and only funny in terms of her inept take on her supporting roll. Also Who would believe that the scruffy, long haired, Hawaiian shirt wearing lay about like Lance could even write his name in the ground with a stick let alone write a factual novel about a professional killer such as Palmer. The Three act suture of the movie works really well, but its in the individual stories where the problems lie. Plot twists play very heavily in the first two stories, but twists can be hard things to execute, as proved here as the twists either rely on two many variables that the possibilities of which are tiny or they simply defy human logic. Over all this is just another British Gangster film without the break out capability that films like Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels or Gangster No 1 possess. The Dialog fails to pack the punch of the movies it is trying to copy, but then again when you find a movie in a bright orange case sitting gathering dust in the bargain bin of a newsagents, how good should you really expect it to be?
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