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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
ULTRA VIOLENT!!! READ ON...,
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This review is from: Rise Of The Footsoldier (2-Disc Special Edition) [DVD] (DVD)
Past years have seen one or two football violence related movies; The Football Factory, Green Street, together with numerous hardcore violent British Gangster flicks; Gangster No.1, The Business, Layer Cake etc.
This film, partially based on 1995 true events, melds these two genres together to form a critical mass! There's no getting away, that this is a shocking & at times disturbing film. The football hooligan scenes are even more violent than either Green Street or Football Factory (Once again, West Ham v Millwall), and as we move into Gangland waters, there are scenes of torture that rival either of the Hostel movies! People are stabbed, bitten, beaten & there's some very graphic gunplay. Oh, lest we forget - fingers hacked off, teeth pulled out with pliers and an all over crucifixion! The only film of it's type to rival these shocking scenes is the horrifying Gangster No.1! It's also completeley foul-mouthed from start to finish - with the now customary excessive use of the C-word. Also, there's some very scantily dressed ladies on show, usually draped across Craig Fairbrass (who seems to revel in the role of loose cannon Pat Tate). I can almost guarantee the appeal of this to many people - I enjoyed it - All of us like to look at the dark side of life, but this is a world that 99.9% of us would never want to experience! It's well directed, with capable performances all around. Parallels could be drawn between central performer Ricci Harnett as the infamous ICF General/organised criminal, Carlton Leach & Ray Liotta's acclaimed performance in Goodfellas. I'm not saying the quality is the same but Scorsese's film has clearly inspired. As in Football Factory, Gangster No.1 etc, we have the voice over throughout the film, and it's one of the better examples. I really liked the cinematography & the editing - far less of the 'music video' feel that often blights many Brit films at the moment! And how can you knock a movie that gives us football punch ups to the sound of Motorhead's We Are The Road Crew!! I have to say I thought it was a better movie than Nick Love's Outlaw which had the potential to be so much more. This is just a good film to have some mates around, crack open a few cans and see who looks away first! Definiteley not one for the girlfriends...
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
An average film at best, and not the best of its type by far,
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This review is from: Rise Of The Footsoldier - Single Disc Edition [2007] [DVD] (DVD)
The box and packaging promise a lot, the story of the brutal rise of Carlton Leach promises a lot and being based on true events promises a lot but this film just fails to really deliver much more than a lot of swearing and fake blood getting splattered around (not always very convincingly either). Sometimes in a film, less is actually more and you don't need to see somebody getting their brains painted across a Range Rover to get the picture of what happened. Take Guy Ritchie, in Lock Stock or Snatch there are brutal shoot outs at the end but it's done in a subtle way and its very effective. I think the scene at the Gypsy camp when Mickey's gang surprise Bricktops Gang and one gets shot, you don't see it but instead you hear it down Bricktops phone, you know what's happened without needing to witness it. In Rise of the Footsoldier there is none of that cleverness and if you've read about the Range Rover killings, you'll know the outcome anyway.
It isn't so bad that I'd say don't buy it, but it is a pale rival to The Long Good Friday, Layer Cake or Sexy Beast.
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
"When coke deals go bad...",
By Adrian Stranik "Ade" (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rise Of The Footsoldier (2-Disc Special Edition) [DVD] (DVD)
Let's face it; Reservoir Dogs wasn't so much a movie about a diamond heist gone wrong as it was about a gang of actors that wanted to be Lee Marvin. Rise of the Footsoldier (Released 7th of September) is nothing more or less than a bunch of Scorsese fanatics who wished they'd been in Goodfellas - and be fair, who wouldn't?
`Footsoldier' is a gangster film - pure and simple. "Professional" Football hooligans the I.C.F (Inner City Firm) have met their nemesis with a spate of high profile arrests. With the emergence of the `rave' scene of the late 80's they recognise the lucre generating possibilities of the new counter culture; get `loved up', `steam' the groovy train and swap their Stanley knives and knuckle dusters for smiley T. Shirts, Kickers and eh... shotguns. Quickly establishing themselves as major `faces' in the Essex underworld, it isn't long before these Knights of the glass table are running their cocaine Camelot through a gamut of girls, guns and high friends in dangerous places. Based on a real life1995 `hit' which rendered three of those `face's blown off at a secluded dirt track in Retterdon, the cinematic possibilities of what is now known as `The Range Rover Killings' has not been lost on movie land. The semi fictional Essex Boys (2000) took its cue from this pivotal event in gangland history but `Footsoldier' is a more authentic account, retaining the facts and the actual characters as recounted in `Muscle', the book written by one of the surviving members of the gang Carlton Leach, played here by a shark eyed Ricci Harnett. `Footsoldier' also boasts an impressive array of T.V tough guys including Ex-Eastender's Bill Murray and Craig Fairbrass, whose soap appearances had hitherto had me scrambling for the off switch. Both are excellent here, with Murray exuding menace from every pore and Fairbrass chillingly convincing as the `roid' crazed Pat Tate. Mover and shaker Terry Stone has a face that suggests all the members of the Clash at once and follows his impressive turn in Gilby's last movie, the very excellent `Rollin' With The Nines' as Tony Tucker; a one man swear-a-thon sporting a syrup that looked liked it could have been a stunt double for Dougal in the Magic Roundabout. Brandishing its Scorsese-isms loudly and proudly (sweeping crane shots, freeze frame voice overs etc) `Footsoldier' is no `feel good' film by any stretch. But there is much to enjoy from watching these guys `go ta woik' in a similar, but darker fashion to ensemble piece `Love, Honour & Obey' (Was I the only one that liked that film?!) or the aforementioned Reservoir Dogs. Perhaps not quite dislodging any of the unholy trinity of Get Carter, Brighton Rock and The Long Good Friday from their lofty throne, Rise of the Foot Soldier doesn't let up for a second and holds its own as a `balls out', `in yer face' thrill ride, and certainly a worthy addition to the `Grit Brit' gangster pantheon. Adrian Stranik
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