tombrookes2007
Firstly I am a Fairbrass fan, I like macho cockney geezers, I like Brit films and I like action underdog films. This is clearly all four of these. This makes it a cult film for a select few only. It will suffer from Hollywood comparisons (Taken, Face, Lock Stock, Rise of, Essex Boys even Love, Honour and Obey all miles better) and that is a shame as it is a small film (£2 mill budget) that needs to be judged as it stands alone. I guess it is ambitious from a small team, but I accept it is an easy current story laced with masculine themes and action. If you are up for a brainless revenge chase action romp then this has all the content needed, with dodgy simple acting and accents throughout.Freight will get slated but I enjoyed it. It is relatively well paced, shot in good definition and a solid enough Brit Movie. Fairbrass and Murray team up once again (Dead Cert) and this is their best film by far. Many critics will question these TV actors (soap EastEnders) intent on being movie stars (however small a film) but for fans of the Danny Dyer genre of modern Brit gangster films this is a good watch.Romanian sex-trafficking gang steal a toilet trailer with son in law inside, from a Boxing Club gangster. They go to get it back, using over the top force, killing a few of the gang. Evil leader Christie gets revenge by bombing the boxing club, and stealing Taylor's daughter. The revenge games then begin, with a dose of cage fighting, prostitution out of a strip club and the usual guns and explosive killings to find his daughter. Better than Bonded by Blood, but not as good as Rise of The Footsoldier.
jonmccann
This is the epitome of awfulness and why British movies have such a bad reputation. Ultimately, if a British movie is made with a factual script, it's usually good, if a British movie is made with a fictional script, it's bloody appalling, and this proves it.From the start the amount of violence shown is ridiculous, not sure whether that's because of just the violence, or also the fact that it's so indiscriminate. I think the latter is probably the case. Although its then made even more bizarre by the kidnapping of the lead actors daughter, who is subsequently tied up and never seems to be hit, tortured etc, it just doesn't make sense.I started to take notes fairly quickly into this film, because I was so appalled by it. For me, it was too quick to integrate new people, without establishing them, then giving them a major role in the progression, for example a brother is suddenly introduced and goes on to kill three people in the next few seconds?!?! The subplots are silly, a nine year old was kidnapped early on for onward sale to a peodophile (presumably), then is not seen again until three quarters of the way into the movie?! Then rescued?! I saw a very poor display of realism with the wife of the main lead, really, she was a gangsters wife?! I also watched the bizarre dialogue about romanians sticking heads on sticks, then the statement that English people did this as well, which just left me floundering! Aside from all that, we had the garage scene, where the main bad guy infiltrates and escapes with relative ease and no explanation. I could go on and on...On the whole, the idea was a good one, use the film 'taken' as the blueprint and make it British, the trouble was that Taken was American made and quality, and was not afraid to be brutal using the viewers imagination, this film has struck out badly because it tried to be brutal, but remembering its British, so easing back on the screenplay, it doesn't work, at all! It's so frustrating to see these types of movies made, because brit flicks can do so much more, sadly this film will end up in the £1.00 bargain bucket and doesn't deserve to be anywhere else.
Emulator29
Yes i'm french ...and Yes again i also love British Cinema. Hopefully unlike the Italian author cinema the British one is still Alive ! and brings to us from time to time a real jewel : Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch , Swallow Grave, Trainspotting, Revolver,This Is England, Four lions, all the Stanley Kubrick movies etc. Off course there's too many to mention all of them.So Far from me the will to light up an ancient rivalry or to start another 100 Years War :^)...but i am quit surprise to see that only British reviewer love that movie ( how can it be !).The only one that i agree with is a Russian cinephile. And if you ask me i can't understand how such a bad movie script, hawfully play by mediocre acting ( and directing i guess ) can be so much positively misjudge . As a Latin proverb says "love turns you blind !". Perhaps ..! Can't see another plausible explanation.Watching this movie so dull was a pain for the mind. Even the "action" sequence were boring. I better not say what i think in detail of the script ! Someone says it's a kind of British "Taken" , well to me "Taken" is at best an average action movie with a predictable story. "Freight" is a lot worse than that !. Spare your money guy , rent a video, DL a movie and choose a _real_ movie.
Sam cullingworth
I went to see this film when it came out in Leeds on 8th October. "Freight" is a very well-rounded, British film, with some very searching and probing contemporary topics about our country. Illegal human trafficking has never been portrayed in such a compelling way, and provides the viewer with a gripping, edge-of-your-seat, drama from start to finish."Freight" is not without humour, and the audience laughed a few times early on...then the tension mounts, as you are drawn into the plot, which is as follows: Families promised the dream life in the UK are smuggled in, split up and then forced into a fight for their survival. A sequence of unrelated events bring "Gabe Taylor" (Billy Murray) into the middle of the situation, and when his daughter gets kidnapped,all hell breaks loose, with "Jed"(Craig Fairbrass) , Gabe's right-hand man, leading the way into an all-out assault to try and get his daughter back....The film is exceptionally well-crafted, with suspense, heartache, and drama all the way through. It's great to see a British film as gritty and characterful as this, with great performances from Murray, Fairbrass, and Danny Midwinter, who radiates pure evil throughout the movie. Andrew Tiernan makes a star appearance as Midwinter's evil henchman, and, boy does he do it well!Gabe Taylor's family were both credible and their characters well developed, drawing you into the emotional trauma the family suffers. Sterling performances from Laura Aikman, Luke Aikman, Jean Heard and Sam Kennard, which when "Julie"(Laura Aikman)gets kidnapped, really hits home-definitely a tear-jerker!Finally, may I suggest that you go and see this film, and if it is not in your area, that you should request it at your local cinema...you won't regret it!
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