Really Surprised!

hyped garbage

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

When retired East End villain Charlie Archer is murdered by a feral street gang, his brother Ritchie returns to London from Spain to investigate. We Still Kill The Old Way is a film that not only impressed me but i absolutely loved it and it basically took things from films such as Expendables and Harry Brown it's an old fashion revenge kind of action/drama film and although there's violence it wasn't over the top and i liked that, the acting was good overall with the 4 leading men being the best part of it and the humor was also pretty good too and i'm gonna give it an A+ it really surprised me a lot and it's definitely worth your attention if you love action films of this kind.

This is a London based vigilante film that features almost cartoonish street hoodlums who the director goes out of his way to make utterly despicable such as casual raping and at one point threatening to throw a pram and baby over a building.An old man Charlie (Steven Berkoff) is kicked to death by a gang called E2 as he tries to help a young woman from being raped. However Charlie was a respected and also a feared former gangster. To get revenge his brother Richie (Ian Ogilvy) returns from Spain and gets together with his old lags to gain revenge.The hard guy pensioners go old school as they catch several members of E2 and torture them as they try to find out the whereabouts of their gang leader. The police in the mean time act like dummies not even able to find out that the gang put Charlie's beating on YouTube.It is nice to see former Saint, Ogilvy returning to headline a film and trading his posh accent for a gruff cockney one. He still looks smooth for his age which is more than I can say for the female co- stars Alison Doody and Lysette Anthony who are unrecognisable from their bygone years.At least the hard assed veterans seem to be having fun getting back to torturing their victims like the old day although I did it find it hard to believe that the youthful scum did not start squealing after one punch.The film is derivative, enjoyable and plain daft in equal measures. The shoot out at the hospital was almost bizarre.

"They are nasty little piglets. And I really like to hear them squealing before the end." When I looked at the cover of this film for the first time, an old-fashioned-looking layout with two evenly sized areas where some veterans are shown above a group of fearless teenagers, I was expecting some kind of third-rate B-movie that you can buy after a while for a bargain price in your local supermarket or which you can get with two big packs of paprika chips in a promotional package with the slogan "eat-some-crispy-chips-with-this-bite-sized-movie". In hindsight, I thought this movie didn't deserve that cheap status. It's a reasonably entertaining movie about contemporary youth who have more respect for their iPhone than for a war veteran's hard-earned medals, who are harshly dealt with by some old gangster veterans. The sometimes rather brutal scenes go hand in hand with subtle humor, which I found a wonderful cocktail.Don't expect an intricate storyline with thoughtful subplots, but a straightforward crime story with respect, loyalty and correctness (if you can call it that way) diametrically opposed to debauchery and vandalism. A kind of "Expendables" which are spring cleaning a suburb in London (East End) because the brother of Richie Archer (Ian Ogilvy) terminates a gang rape in some alley and is being killed by Aaron (Danny-Boy Hatchard), the leader of the gang of those young punks. After the news is being told by an old friend from the neighborhood, he flies over from Spain to take revenge, with the help of some companions from the past.It's again a crime movie in which the familiar clichés aren't shunned. The youngsters are depicted as stupid nobodies who can't say two sentences without overloading them with swear words and whose situation obviously is the result of a bunch of hopeless social circumstances. Police and investigators are again ignorant and so terribly stupid that their research doesn't progress a bit. The most outstanding example is superintendent Susan Taylor (Alison Doody). I am categorically convinced that her cup size surpasses her IQ score without any problems. A police detective who doesn't even know that her daughter is involved with the leader of the gang. And finally the retired ex-gangsters are presented as saviors of the past. Three times they are portrayed as the local scouts members who ensured the disappearance of scum of the street so everyone could walk at ease on the streets during the night. After seeing some scenes I'm sure they weren't members of the "Vienna Boys Choir" in their time.But it was the cast that charmed me the most. Especially Ian Ogilvy sparkled on the silver screen. A sort of Roger Moore with a grayish beard who speaks all the time with a kind of Sean Connery accent. A quiet man who oozes authority. A superb acting performance by someone who surely has a legendary list of performances and participations in all kinds of television series. The three companions fit perfectly in that picture: three ruthless, tough elderly who flinch for nothing (but apparently after some efforts suffer from some physical ailments). Those four blood brothers dressed identically and looked like a senior version of "Reservoir Dogs" to me. The torture scene I thought was the highlight of the film: sadism mixed with cynical, sarcastic humor (the metaphor of the modern drill compared to the old-fashioned hand drill was obvious) .I chuckled and gloated at the same time. The youngsters weren't bad either, although it sometimes seemed as if they wanted to copy the American slums. Danny-Boy Hatchard is great as riotous Aaron who doesn't care about anybody and seems fearless, but on second thoughts he's more of a coward who rather sends out his followers instead of a direct confrontation. His way of acting is sometimes exaggerated, especially the language irritated me after a while."We still kill the old way" has its charms and its shortcomings. The ending is a bit abrupt and sometimes quite naive performed. Some movie sequences look artificial like the dialog between Richie and Susan in the pub. But overall I found this a successful British film and I wouldn't have a problem if they brought up the old guard again to implement the idea suggested by Richie at the end.More reviews at http://opinion-as-a-moviefreak.blogspot.be

"Old gangster and his crew returns to old neighborhood for vengeance against a gang of violent youths who now rule their old territory" First of all, great original sounding title. But since it's not a remake of the 1967 move of the same name, very bad title.The characters are typical and in "Tarantino terms" that would be great use of clichés, but it falls a bit flat here. The interesting details of each character are skipped over and ignored, giving them little depth and no mystery. Our hero has OCD but it's put to little use in the plot. The other members of his old gang have interesting back stories and personality traits that remain unexplored, and at times they just become annoying rather than interesting or funny - so many missed opportunities here. Our bad guys: Leader has a scar on his face, no back story to it - normally not needed unless it would make him more interesting, and he certainly needs that. He's utterly psychopathic but it somehow doesn't seem like it suits him. He really overplays the part and not very convincingly. I think he's a decent actor but this part is just not him. The rest of his gang are equally unconvincing, they all look like they'd poop themselves if faced with the slightest real threat, and at no time does one get the impression that they run the streets. At one point (not really a spoiler) two gang members are threatened with torture and I'm at no point convinced that these two are as "hard" as they are trying to act. Which streets? Yes there's another problem. The whole film is shot in relatively boring urban surroundings that just don't seem very menacing, most of it indoors at that. I get no sense looming doom and danger. Another wasted opportunity, I know London has some great locations for this type of film. Then there's the police - totally useless in this story, every one of them a bad actor. Alison Doody is decent, but I'm completely confused by her fake American accent while she plays a London detective. Makes little sense at all and it's just so misplaced that it becomes distracting. There are a few attempts at interesting camera work, but since I noticed it and it wasn't very impressive, I will have to claim it was misplaced and obvious for all the wrong reasons. All in all it seems more like this movie is aimed at an audience over 60, trying to make them feel safer and secure in the knowledge that they have more decency than "those young ruffians on the corner who don't show us any respect".