Prismark10 Junkhearts is a gritty film set in London that starts promisingly but gets derailed due to poor execution and a muddled and derivative screenplay.Frank (Eddie Marsan) is a reclusive ex-soldier, drunk and suffering from post traumatic stress as he is haunted by his past. He takes in a young homeless girl Lynette (Candese Reid) when she is having a spot of bother outside an off licence and she stays at his shabby flat.At first they strike up a tentative friendship but then her boyfriend Danny turns up and also moves into the flat before long there is sex, drugs, alcohol and partying and Frank is like a prisoner in his own flat and it looks like Lynette has used him.I just wanted Frank to knock Danny's lights out but what we get is a dreary melodrama which stems into a cliché ridden thinly plotted mess.

ow_fire After reading a lot of negative reviews for this film I almost decided not to watch it. Had I not been aware of how many idiots there are on the internet I might have missed out on what turned out to be a flawed yet enjoyable film. All the characters range from pitiable to despicable and this provides the flow of the film and depressing content and although the ending came across as a little too contrived ( I had expected something a little more messy given the lives of the characters) the story for the most part seemed an accurate representation of life and rang true for a gritty realism drama. By no means perfect but well worth a watch. I would give this a 6 but as it possesses elements I have not seen expressed in film before I am going to give it a 7

diggus doggus Junkhearts is a British, nearly-for-TV drama about the relationship between an ex-soldier and a homeless girl, their troubled personalities, and the hard lives they lead;Though there are some interesting choices in the script during the early developments - the goldfish scene, where Lynnette does for Frank what he did for her in the self-defence scene - ultimately Junkhearts descends rapidly into a tabloid-grime film about crime, wasted youth, and defenceless characters, who from leads become merely a support to the trite story.This film had potential, but the writers didn't have the material to get a whole hour and a half of film together; all in all, disappointing.My vote: 5/10 - inconclusive, aimless, self-defeating.

Karl Ericsson A beautiful film may be pointless but at least it's beautiful. You know, a film with beautiful scenery but nothing else really.Now, an ugly film must have a point. If it's an ugliness that nobody knows anything about but that all should know about - well, that might be a point for doing the film.Now, here there is plenty of ugliness but we have seen it before. No solution is offered, not even an absurd one. So, then why do the movie? Is it what we used to call "social porno"? Probably and just as all other porno it's pretty brainless.Compare the end scene of this film with the end of the silent film The Crowd. The films are similar in that they deal with social issues but the ens scene in The Crowd is touching. The end in this film is contrived and somehow predictable. No surprises here and the contrived editing is just as boring.8,5 - Are you MADD?