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Simply A Masterpiece

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Nick finds himself in debt to American gangster Mr Thigo . Nick has to find one hundred thousand pound within 24 hours or his mother who is being held hostage will be executed With a film starring Danny Dyer , Brenda Blethyn , 50 Cent and executively produced by footballers Ashley Cole and Rio Ferninand what could possibly go right ? Not much . Reading the plot summary and the comments on this page you do realise you might be watching a Guy Ritchie inspired comedy thriller but that's too simplistic . More like you're watching a sort of British set SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE where a cosmic being conspires to fit one situation to smoothly dovetail in to another one . For example Nick and his best friend crash their London cab in rural Lancashire and low and behold there's a rave taking place . Not only that but the rave organisers just happen to know a couple of Manchester gangsters who want to arrange a hit that morning . Wow lucky if you need to earn 100 grand through illegal means . The Gods are indeed smiling upon Nick . They do like their fun though and play about with him . For example they arrange things so that he'll sit right next to some thieving scrote on a train who will steal his money , then when he goes to rob a bank someone coincidentally mentions on the phone the result of a dog race the previous night . The Gods do indeed work in mysterious ways Sounds bloody awful and yet it's so awful and silly and lacking in any sort of reality that you can't help being swept along in its thoughtless stupidity and sense of fun . Yeah I'll be the first to admit that Guy Ritchie has a lot to answer for and we've seen far too many pale imitations of his work . If everything was dead pan it would indeed be a different film but a much lesser one and it's nice to see film once in a while that doesn't take itself or the audience too seriously

Well I enjoyed it. It was just good fun and made me smile several times. I'm unfamiliar with the two leads so I'm not fed up of them. Brenda Blethyn was terrific as usual.The soundtrack was quite good too and I enjoyed the contrast when the classical piece took over.Not sure the 'kill' would have been so clean with a sawn off shotgun. I thought they made a bigger mess than that."This movie even has big football movie connections it was funded by non other than Rio Ferdinand...that's right I said that huge football star Rio ferdanando..or something like that." He's England Captain and plays for One of the World's Biggest clubs. I think that qualifies as pretty big.

'Dead Man Running' sees the cinematic Cockney wide boys Tamer Hassan and Danny Dyer join together for yet another jolly boys outing on the big screen. Except this time instead of playing raging football hooligans destroying East London one shop window at a time, they are instead pushed into the world of the British Gangster flick. Which sounds like potential entertainment, but it really isn't. It'll help you fill an hour and thirty minutes of free time, but you won't be rushing to see it again at the Cinema, or out to buy the DVD, or see to it on pay-television...The opening scene of the film shows that the recession has had far and wide reaching consequences across the economic board as the underworld boss Mr Thigo (Curtis '50' Jackson) decides to draw in every penny from all the outstanding loans he is currently owed. While Nick (Hassan) is the unfortunate customer who is going to be made an example of by Thigo to make sure everybody pays up promptly and without hassle – Barclays Banking this is not. Nick is given twenty-four hours to acquire the hundred grand he owes Thigo otherwise he and his mother (Brenda Blethyn) will be sleeping with the fishes. Cue a frantic race across London with his business partner and working-class friend Bing (Danny Dyer) in tow as they attempt various different activities while trying to raise the debt and stay alive.Hassan and Dyer play the typical characters you have seen them time and time again, and it is now becoming a little annoying as well as entirely predictable and boring. Nick is a former 'hardman' who was a resident at Her Majesty's service before taking the legal and law-abiding route so he could care for his family. While Bing is his right-hand man who is willing to do almost anything to help Nick obtain the £100,000 that he owes. Yet there is one gleaming performance in this stiff, wooden cast which is that of veteran British actress Brenda Blethyn who plays Nick's caring, soft, yet incredibly versatile mother who provides not only the biggest laugh of the film, but also the tensest scene as we uncover a secret she has kept buried under her blanket.I was never expecting a brilliant film from Alex De Rakoff's British crime flick 'Dead Man Running', but I was expecting more considering the decent cast it contains. It fails to harbour the primarily British cast's potential and instead delivers a predictable narrative coupled with a terribly clichéd script. The biggest problem however is the fact that despite being evenly and well paced, the film has nothing which will keep an audience's attention for longer than five minutes.

I didn't know what to expect from this film except that the poster made it look like an honest-to-goodness thriller that could've been made any time in the past 40 years, and that appealed to me. In the event, it's a well-played noir mostly set in London (though you get no real sense of the city, and it's a shame they had to show Big Ben) in which Nick (engagingly played by Tamer Hassan) has 24 hours to find £100,000 or he, and his mother (as always, a superb performance from Brenda Blethyn) will be 'buried in a shallow grave'. Well-paced, with a reasonable twist, it's only a shame that most of the dialogue is quite lame, and everything has a second-hand feel, but that's deliberate, I feel, and we need more movies like this that have a heart of noir while only seeking to entertain. The audience I saw it with, in Wandsworth, were thoroughly entertained.