Movie Info
Genre
Action, Drama, ThrillerRelease Date
September 19, 2006 (DVD)MPAA Rating
RStudio
First Look Home Entertainment
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Reader's Reviews : 
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Cast and Crew
Director
Mark HammondProducer
Ira Besserman, Patrick J. FitzSymons, Brendan Foley, Lars Hermann, Paul Largan, Tom MaguireScreenwriter
Brendan FoleyStarring
- Vinnie Jones as Johnny Doyle
- Patrick Bergin
- Eriq La Salle
- Samantha Mumba as Rita
- Lennox Lewis
- Roger Daltrey
- Laurence Kinlan
- Wilson Jermaine Heredia
- Mark Asante
Movie Story
Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, hell bent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escape Brixton, they are trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house, sandwiched between a Rastafarian reggae pirate radio station upstairs and a West Indian `Yardie' crack-dealing gangster, Julius, downstairs. As the charismatic Flynn finds common ground with the Yardies, Johnny fights to realize a peace process of his own, but makes the mistake of falling for Julius's girlfriend Rita, causing all-out war. A thriller in the vein of Lock Stock and The Long Good Friday, in which questions of race, morality, identity and loyalty play out against a great sound-track of reggae, rock, new wave and soul.
Reader's Reviews
Great film. Great soundtrack.
posted by mickuervo on Jun 29, 2008Really good little movie, with a great script and very oddball casting that somehow works very well. Eriq La Salle as the baddest of badasses, Boxer Lennox Lewis who is really great as a weed-puffing rasta and Vinnie Jones in the lead role. There's even an appearance from Roger Daltrey from The Who. It's not the best made movie I've ever seen, but the larger than life characters manage to be funny and engrossing at the same time, and the soundtrack is truly superb - wall to wall reggae and DnB from Adrian Sherwood of On-U. Really worth a look.
posted by Don Wilson on Sep 30, 2006Really good little movie, with a great script and very oddball casting that somehow works very well. Eriq La Salle as the baddest of badasses, Boxer Lennox Lewis who is really great as a weed-puffing rasta and Vinnie Jones in the lead role. There's even an appearance from Roger Daltrey from The Who. It's not the best made movie I've ever seen, but the larger than life characters manage to be funny and engrossing at the same time, and the soundtrack is truly superb - wall to wall reggae and DnB from Adrian Sherwood of On-U. Really worth a look.
posted by Don Wilson on Sep 30, 2006