Sadly Over-hyped

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Remaking a film is never going to be an easy task or please everyone - but at least the production team could have made an effort.Most of the cast engage in 3rd rate drama school acting where the lines are repeated pigeon fashion without any real flow or connection between the characters.In particular, the character of 'Tony' is nothing more than a stereotypical foul mouthed hyperactive young man. A character which is played to death in many American teenage B movies. All dialogue and no substance. It would be hard to see how the actor ever worked again after this performance - but he did, so perhaps he learned the craft more in-depth.The film tries to steamroller it's path to the end with a stream of foul language, violence, sex, and not much else to substantiate their use.|My advice would be to watch the original and give this low-rate remake a miss - it is not worth your time.

I actually really liked this movie! It was frantic and exciting with strong character performances. I have never seen the original movies but threw this on late at night at my home in Vancouver and was instantly drawn in by the great story and cool plot line and dope music! The one thing i didn't like was the end but at the time of watching it i didn't realize that it was part 1. the lead actor was good, I read someone say he was kind of a dweeb, but i personally think he was great and his character was supposed to be like that. I think he was still a strong person not a geek or dweeb. i myself was in the drug trade for many years and this movie and his frantic performance rings true....Glad I got out when I did but i looks like for him things are just getting started!! Awesome music to keep the movie flowing as well!! I personally cant wait to see the next movie!! #Bravo I'm also a big fan of N.W.R love his movies

Review: The picture had an elementary plot with a tense and gripping atmosphere. The opening scene introduced the audience to the main characters with a trigger pulling style. I'd enjoyed the action sequences because I was trapped in suspense. The characters in the film were easy to acknowledge but the picture wasn't physiological. It was like watching a Martin Scorsese film because every scene was a highlight with tension. It's a movie fun to watch like (Pulp Fiction) but not physiological. I liked the London landscape because it gave a modern substance. My ears were trapped in the tech-no soundtrack that was composed and played in a nightclub mood. I liked how the characters were expressive with their vocal chords and body language. It was like staring into the seven expressionism of art. I believed that the picture had a modern looking production and casual costume designing. I give the movie a 6/10.

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday MorningFrank (Richard Coyle) is a London drug dealer, whose friend Tony (Bronson Webb) brings him in on a deal that could net him some serious dough. He tries to rope Eastern European crime boss Milo (Zlatko Buric) in on the deal, but things go pear shaped when there is an unexpected police bust and he is forced to dump his stash in a pond. Now in major debt to Milo, Frank finds himself in a desperate race against time to come up with the cash he owes...or else.Luis Prieto, the man behind the recent hit thriller Drive, here takes Nicolas Winding Refn's cult Danish original from the nineties, and injects it with the same drowned out, moody style, as well as the grim, gory violence he employed with Ryan Gosling. Given the original film's critical raving and cult status, it probably had a big enough cult following that a remake, as always, was inevitable. While he's crafted a film with an absorbing sense of style, his narrative flow as a story teller is left slightly wanting, and while the film is not quite a case of style over substance, there still seems more emphasis on the style than the substance.The cast really raise it up a notch, most notably Buric as the head gangster, really filling the screen with a natural air of big hearted warmth under which lurks a psychotic monster. The support cast include Agyness Deyn as Frank's troubled stripper girlfriend, as well as Paul Kaye and Neil Maskell, doing another convincing northern accent. It's short and sweet, as well, but, maybe more short than sweet. ***