rayyule The acting was wooden. The gang wouldnt scare anyone,whoever cast them was poor. If one if them kids were tied up and threatened like they were they would crap themselves. Im a 50 year old bloke and would scare them just by looking at them

Sivanand Chaganti This movie is about Old School and New school. Old Guys bashing up younger ones. The movie follows the life of Richie who returns to his neighborhood to avenge his brothers murder. The movie has some nice Back ground music. Richie is played well by Ian Ogilvy. Danny-Boy has done a great job as the protagonist. Even though i found it a bit difficult to understand his language it sounded intense. There is a small twist in the movie but I guess most of you can catch it.The screenplay is done out well and sure will not bore you. If you are ready for some fancy stuff (they portray Richie almost equal to Corleone), then you are in for this movie. . I am ready for the second part.

heftymartin "Old gangster and his crew returns to old neighborhood for vengeance against a gang of violent youths who now rule their old territory" First of all, great original sounding title. But since it's not a remake of the 1967 move of the same name, very bad title.The characters are typical and in "Tarantino terms" that would be great use of clichés, but it falls a bit flat here. The interesting details of each character are skipped over and ignored, giving them little depth and no mystery. Our hero has OCD but it's put to little use in the plot. The other members of his old gang have interesting back stories and personality traits that remain unexplored, and at times they just become annoying rather than interesting or funny - so many missed opportunities here. Our bad guys: Leader has a scar on his face, no back story to it - normally not needed unless it would make him more interesting, and he certainly needs that. He's utterly psychopathic but it somehow doesn't seem like it suits him. He really overplays the part and not very convincingly. I think he's a decent actor but this part is just not him. The rest of his gang are equally unconvincing, they all look like they'd poop themselves if faced with the slightest real threat, and at no time does one get the impression that they run the streets. At one point (not really a spoiler) two gang members are threatened with torture and I'm at no point convinced that these two are as "hard" as they are trying to act. Which streets? Yes there's another problem. The whole film is shot in relatively boring urban surroundings that just don't seem very menacing, most of it indoors at that. I get no sense looming doom and danger. Another wasted opportunity, I know London has some great locations for this type of film. Then there's the police - totally useless in this story, every one of them a bad actor. Alison Doody is decent, but I'm completely confused by her fake American accent while she plays a London detective. Makes little sense at all and it's just so misplaced that it becomes distracting. There are a few attempts at interesting camera work, but since I noticed it and it wasn't very impressive, I will have to claim it was misplaced and obvious for all the wrong reasons. All in all it seems more like this movie is aimed at an audience over 60, trying to make them feel safer and secure in the knowledge that they have more decency than "those young ruffians on the corner who don't show us any respect".

johnklem It's a nice if not original idea, bolstered by good perts from the two main protagonists and a decent supporting cast. The script's the problem and as William H. Macy pointed out, that makes for an insurmountable problem. The movie begins well enough, certainly well enough to make you think it's going to be an interesting ride. We watch Ian Ogilvy and Danny-boy Hatchard in their respective territories and we know we're heading for conflict. Then there's Stephen Berkoff and things are looking up. And that's as good as it gets. We lose Berkoff and we're back to a more simple film but that's OK. What's not OK is the lack of audience empathy that it demonstrates. Berkoff's way too interesting to introduce and then lose within a few short minutes. And that lack of empathy continues. There's a scene, actually a couple of scenes, in which the old school gangsters torture the new kids on the block. Trust me, you really want them to suffer. And they do, just not enough. We're left wanting and that need is never satisfied because from that point the film takes a turn for the worse. Basic scriptwriting rules are abandoned and any vestigial connection with reality, or even the reality of the world of this film, is broken. By the end, you really don't care. But this flick still thinks it has one card up its sleeve. A final scene that references The Italian Job. Oh, please!