jack_regan

Got some voucher that i had for christmas burning ann hole in my pocket so thought i would go and spend them in town today.

One film i fancy is Rise Of the Foot soldier starring the excellent Billy Murray and craig fairbrass.

As anyone watched this film, and could it be recommend ?

I am a fan of these kind of brit films and will add it to my collection sometime, just wanted to know if it was worth spending on now or waiting to it comes down in price later next year.

Thanks

Roy

MarcMorris

Yes, seen it twice now - I feel it was very unfairly criticized by the UK press. Read my posts here:

Anchor bay UK

Nucleus Films:
DVD Releasing + Extras Production

jack_regan

Thanks Marc, I saw rollin with the nines and i thought James Gilbey done a great job on that.Never got to see his Reckoning day offering though.

Back to Rise Of .., yeah the media slated it but that was to be expected. They do it with every british crime film don't they ?

Great Anchor Bay Thread. Going to read more into it now.

Regards Roy

DB7

They say films incite violence and this will have you headbutting the wall in frustration at having wasted 2 hours of your life. It's from the land of Mockney, maybe Michael Caine, Damon Albarn and Guy Ritchie are at fault for creating a fictional world called Danny Dyerdom. Either way, this piece of crap and siblings like Footbwall Factorweez have none of the acting, style, wit, flair or even cool tunes that Caine and Ritchie brought to the screen.

It's a cinematic cut-n-shut job, the first half unashamably rips-off the dire (or Dyer) Football Factory then from midway it transforms into a clone of Essex Boys (another heap of crud but for Tom Wilkinson) and replays the infamous Range Rover murders a few times.

The cast seem to be entirely from Eastenders (including that wooden extra from Cliffhanger) and their lines actually caused me to smile; I admire anyone who can say "you farkin caaaaannt" 800 times and keep a straight face.

A Pemberton

@DB7
Whatever you do dont watch "Outlaw" I did, its another Nick Love classic ,full of geezers and the obligatory Danny Dyer in Charles Bronson Death Wish mode !

DB7

I'm a pwoppa geezer and any nortiness on my manor from Dyer n he'll get a slap; you farkin caaants!

I've not watched Outlaw and intend to give it a wide berth.

dogstar

I've not seen Rise of the Footsoldier but prompted by some of the above did a bit of reading around. Several of the more positive reviews seem to make much of the fact of it being ' a working class film' by which I assume they mean a film both about and for working class people. This seems to me patronising in the extreme since it appears to suggest that a working class audience is at its happiest when watching films about hooliganism, thuggery and armed robbery with the barely-hidden inference that the subject matter is part and parcel of working class life. The working class 'cred' is reinforced in these reviews with comments that viewers shouldn't take any notice of poncy newspaper reiviews, neatly ignoring the fact that if a film receives a blanket hostile reception there is possibly a very a very good reason for it - i.e the film is just as awful as the reviewers say it is ( and yes I know I haven't seen it! )

The whole Danny Dyer mockney yob thing has always struck me as rather amusing since he always looks disticnctly ill-at-ease on his Football Factory show though whether from embarrassment at taking part in such a farrago or fear because he is not actually a hard man at all but an actor and rather out of his depth I don't know. Maybe a bit of both. A shame he's painted himself into such a ridiculous corner image-wise as I rather like him as an actor. Ah well...