Prismark10 The good news. The film starts out interestingly enough. You have Bob Hoskins, Sean Bean, heck Danny Dyer has shown in Eastenders that he can act a bit.However this is Nick Love film the Brit Martin Scorsese wannabe, however he cannot even reach the modest heights of the late Michael Winner. As a writer/director Love is is inept and his film output shows this. This wants to be Death Wish but ends up as bad as Death Wish 3!This film is a wet dream if you are a UKIP cum BNP cum English Defence League supporter. A rallying call to arms and a two fingered salute to Tony Blair's Britain. People let down by thugs, gangsters and the justice system. This is London portrayed in the same way New York City was portrayed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, creeps and villains on every corner ready to pounce on the innocent. The police are incompetent or worse, corrupt.Sean Bean is the ex soldier who rounds up a group of vigilantes and with the help of veteran cop Bob Hoskins mete out justice rather ineptly. Just to show there is some equal opportunities, we have Lennie James playing a black barrister (and at one point, claims he is a Muslim) whose family is threatened by a crime lord's cronies but he just flip flops from taking vengeance for his wife to respecting the rule of law.The film has a bad plot, bad lines and is just plain bad.

azwandy I've tried to watch the first 5 minutes of the movie but once I've suffered from dizziness due to excessive focus/out of focus mobile-style video camera then I stopped from watching it. The nauseous feeling was far much more worse than watching a 3D movie. There's no problem if you were experimenting the shot/camera but this is too much.Not recommended to anyone. Better waste your money on any other thing else.The theme for this movie is great but the execution was poor once leaving me no choice but to stop watching it after just barely 5 minutes.

pepekwa I had high hopes for this one, I loved the director's previous work the football factory and this had a great cast, hoskins, bean, dyer etc. However, Director Nick Love does a very poor job here, he's trying to create a satire on modern Britain and throw in a lot of violence to make it a present dat "death wish" vigilante movie but that fails on both counts. Character development is appalling, I was scratching my head here more than I've ever done in a movie, some of the plot inconsistencies were just laughable, other posters have mentioned the specifics so I wont go into details here. Love should stick to his bread and butter of football hooligans, he went over his head here and created an instantly forgettable film.

p-stepien Britain is falling down into disregard. Violence and crime have taken over and even the powers to be are corrupt. That is the United Kingdom of today. At least according to the scriptwriter. Danny Bryant (Sean Bean) returns unwanted and uncared for from the nightmare of war. An Afgan veteran he has left duty and become a civilian only to find out that his only mainstay in life - his wife - has found comfort in the arms of another man. Abandoned by his family and his country he enters the road of revenge with his focus firmly set on the criminal underbelly of the city. By chance he finds a group of like-minded individuals, who however unlike him lack the killer instinct and abilities to fight back. Gene Dekker (Danny Dyer) is a wimp unable to protect himself or his fiancée and although nothing really bad has ever happened to him his life is controlled by fear. Sandy Mardell (Rupert Friend) was beaten up and left for dead by a group of young underage thugs only to survive with his face disfigured. Simon Hillier (Sean Harris) is just... well... mental. Prosecutor Cedric Munroe (Lennie James) is the heaviest afflicted member of the party - his wife and unborn baby are killed by members of the Manning crime syndicate.Vengeance quickly turns out to be tougher than expected, as the members of the Outlaws must cross barrier after barrier. It's not simple for a honest citizen to suddenly start whacking thugs or even worse killing them. Not all of them are able to commit and albeit they initially know the aim of their fight morality gets in the way of their justice.Many people here find this movie unrealistic and the actions of characters idiotic. I however find it to be extremely realistic - the Outlaws are far from ideal and even their self-proclaimed leader Danny is prone to dire mistakes. There is no mastermind behind the plan, so naturally chance and planning coincide. The unexpected happens and everything goes awry. The fighting spree of the Outlaws is short-lived and although they have their five minutes of fame it ends rather quickly and abruptly.My main problem with the movie is the lack of character build. Only two characters - Danny and Gene - get decent focus, whilst the character which should be key to story - Cedric - is underused. The plot stays plausible, but you have no real idea of what actually guides our heroes to do what they do. I could see a real classic revenge movie come out of this one, but instead I'm not sure what the director's real intent was as we end up in an unsatisfying finale undercut with the poor build-up of characters. In the end I have no real idea as to what the movie was about - maybe it was just supposed to be a gratuitous action flick? In the end a shame, because the potential in this movie was very close to the surface.