Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Brennan Camacho Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

cmwhalen2001-1 O.K. first off, I hated the film but gave it a 7 score which is fairly high - solely because of brilliant performance by Sean Bean.Lots of very graphic rape, domestic violence, battered women get knocked around, horrible stuff, gangsters throw acid into face of guy.If you want to see a similar movie with Sean Bean, but not so disturbing and violent check out "Fools Gold" which is based on the same kind of character, but not as horrifically violent.Really quite sordid. But its based on a true story from real life and very authentic. I also really liked Alex Kingston and Tom Wilkinsons performance. It was Oscar level work from Sean Bean and gosh, I'm sure tired of Bean-o getting typecast in so many sociopathic villain roles - he's sexy to die for and can do all kinds of roles, not just the "Man You Love to Hate" as the baddie villain.This is a visceral, ferocious, raw to the bone, flammable white hot smokin' tour de force performance by the most magnificent Sean Bean. It is a testament to the phenomenal power of his acting that even in a gruesome film which I really loathed, I could watch it to the very bitter end spellbound and mesmerized. Sean Bean could recite the telephone book in Swahili and make it to the level of Sir Laurence Olivier reading Shakespeare.Colleen in California

ianlouisiana Completely unconvincing comic book violence trivialising the life,death and crimes of three distinctly frightening but small-time cons from the East London/Essex borderlands.The Rettendon Range Rover murders have proved a cash cow for crime writers,ex-villains,grasses and their ilk for some years,with rumour and counter-rumour circulating from the outer reaches of the Metropolitan Police District to Southend itself. Did The Bill get the right geezers for it?Did one of them,a registered police informant,tell his handler it was all going off and then get the order to go ahead with it anyway? Were they shot elsewhere and driven out into the country?Was the vehicle loaded with drugs that swiftly vanished before the photographers got there?Well,I don't know,and ,frankly,I don't care.It's a high-risk trade,you want low-risk take up basket weaving. Mr Sean Bean plays a crim who's so ludicrously and obviously a total nutter that,in real life,nobody would ever work with him.He'd be quietly "disappeared" to sighs of relief all round. Miss Alex Kingston as his lady is marginally better than Penelope Keith would have been - but only marginally.Her attempts at Estuary English are,frankly,embarrassing. The police - pawns in Miss Kingston's grand design - are either corrupt or grossly incompetent,an irrelevance in the serious business of importing and distributing illegal drugs. Mr Bean's character speaks appallingly,has a poor vocabulary and has trouble relating positively to women.I can only assume he skipped the "Anger Management" classes during his last spell of bird. However,having said all those nasty things about him I still can't believe even a complete knobhead would allow Miss Kingston to blindside him.Perhaps he was dazzled by her brilliant conversation,her grasp of Proustian philosophy? Whatever,it fails to add verisimilitude to an account of dubious veracity. Surely with "Essex Boys" the seam of Britcrim movies has been well and truly mined out,if not can "Buckinghamshire Boys" be far behind?

onysia If you want to "see" what a drug induced blank look really looks like Sean Bean's bedroom scene half way through the movie is a must see. He ain't trying to look good or mean or anything other then just be in the character. And he does that to the exclusion of the rest of the world. He's a git and he will make your skin crawl.This an an ensemble cast and they fit together wonderfully. The ways they come together and come apart are believable. You may even feel compassion for some of them until you remember what everyone is doing.At the end of viewing it I thought it was a once through but now a few days later I want to see it again and I am thinking seriously about buying th DVD.

QueenofBean This movie had all the elements of an action/drama, murder, betrayal, more murder, some drugs, underground gang activity, more betrayal, violence... The plot is interesting, based on actual events in the underground, but we all know how things get blown out of proportion and prettied up for the big screen. Sean Bean was dynamic as Jason Locke. Alex Kingston brilliantly portrayed his vengeful wife and let's not forget Charlie Creed-Miles, as the not so intelligent lackey, Billy.In the end, maybe we'll find that the underground is a woman's world.... or maybe not.