This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Did you people see the same film I saw?

best movie i've ever seen.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Utterly hackneyed tosh! A totally unrealistic, utterly ridiculous, festival of teenage macho posturing! Unlike the film makers, I live in inner city London and know how to use a gun (you need to cock it and take off the safety catch before it can be shot, you muppets!) I also realise that putting together the worst articles you read in the daily mail over the past two decades and pretending they make a realistic reflection on life, is merely laughable! In conclusion, I'm annoyed with myself I wasted two hours of my life watching this charmless, badly acted, Eastenders omnibus!

Ill Manors is a realistic drama with intermittent blasting rap music in between the various drug dealing, pimping, hooking and other bad behavior over the course of two hours. It starts off with apparently disconnected segments with hustlers of every sort involved in illegal activities. The high point is when a prostitute leaves her newborn baby on a train, where the lead pusher, Aaron(Riz Ahmed) ends up showing some real empathy for a change when he takes the little tyke home and searches for the mother, while his cohorts see the situation as an opportunity to make some quick easy money. The final fifteen minutes make the wild ride well worth it in the end. Ahmed is a star in the making, and the entire cast is absolutely perfect. Life is complicated, and Ill Manors portrays it with an unforgiving eye.

This has to be one of the most genuine and brutally honest depictions of thug culture. Never mind that everyone in this film speaks another language(well, they are in fact speaking English, however, their slang and accents are so difficult to understand they might as well be speaking a foreign language)but still, if you can brush past that, be prepared to be amazed by the enormous amount of talent on display here. The film combines multiple story lines together into the one film, and, the whole film is narrated by rap artist, Plan B, who also created the soundtrack for this.The film is very different and innovative, especially in a sub genre like the gangster one, which, in my opinion, has become tired and worn out. The acting is very naturalistic and believable, and the film has a very raw and cheap look about it, which makes the film more powerful. Be aware, though: The C word and F word are used in nearly every scene. It may seem excessive, however, I have met people that speak exactly like the characters in this film. no joke.

I had heard Plan B's album, subsequently released with the film, and really found him to be a British Kanye West; egocentric and thinking he's heard and seen it all. The film is something else, however.Studying film and being a movie buff, I loved dissecting this film, featuring some clever camera techniques, and beautiful blend of music with narrative. Plan B is the main narrator (although not involved in critical development of the film in terms of direction or writing). The story is incredible, not spoiling the ending, there's is plenty of chaos, suffering and desperation. While those I watched it with found the story confronting, I craved the human story within. I felt for all the characters, their motivations and their situation. It's a powerful slap in the face of real life Britain, and the crime world that has developed around the bored teens and the abused victims of the city.If you're a fan of gritty dramas, this is one that takes the cake. Despite the lower user rating that I can't understand from a refreshing, honest (and non-Hollywood) story of life on the streets, this one's worth a watch. Bad language and all. 8/10.