Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

YouHeart I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

david-smojver This is a movie that is trying to be a gangster movie, same as "Snatch" or "Lock Stock and two smoking barrels".This movie failed on all accounts. Casting: Failure, especially for the lead. Script: Failure, boring, clichéd drivel.Directing: The movie was very badly directed and it was not even fit for a background noise. The gore and violence was very badly done. Story-line: Non existent. It was very hard to watch the movie and the story-line was boring, clichéd and narration was just as boring, which was accompanied with flashes of violence, which did not contribute to the story at all. If anything, those fist fights were poorly made and timed too. I am all for violent gangster movies and all. But it has to be part of the story and well made. In this movie it was just there for no good reason and it made the movie even more boring as it already was.

Alex Heaton (azanti0029) While perhaps not quite up there with The Long Good Friday (Will any British Gangster film ever be?) ROTF is well made biopic of one man's story from his time on the football terraces of the late 1970's with West Ham's notorious ICF to the world of the door security, slowly rising to become a small but influential figure in London and Essex Criminal Underworld. While this journey to ascension might not be as regal as that of a New York Crime boss, let us not forget this is England and such small but influential figures do exist. Carlton Leach (Played by Ricci Hartnett) was a well-connected man, if you wanted something, he could get it for you or he knew someone who could. The film charts his life over three decades against the backdrop of his criminal activities and the people he came into contact with, who eventually included the named Essex Boys who would be made famous infamous in the so called 'Range Rover Murders'.I regretted not seeing this film on the big screen upon its release. The broadsheets are rarely kind to independent British Films, but they were especially harsh in their reviews of this one which is poor judgement on their part. Critical of the amount of swearing and depictions of violence seemed to bullet points upon which their poor marks were based, yet American depictions of a similar way of life such as Goodfellas, have just the same amount of both and are hailed a work of genius and while Rise doesn't quite have the same talents involved on the acting plaudits, what it does have is a sense of scale. The story feels epic, you get a sense and feel for the different times in which the film is set from the violent terraces of the 70's to the coming of the Ecstasy fulled era of the late 80's leading to the results of living on the edge for too long in the 90's. The high ranking critics of the film world may well not relate to these eras on that level, which is hardly surprising as they were unlikely to be part of such circles, but the Gibley brothers have proved that on a fraction of the budget they can come up with an engrossing tale that depicts a big story taking place over many years. Though the film is Carlton's story, the last third of it is very much given over to the Essex Range Rover killings and his friendship with Tony Tucker (Played by newcomer Terry Stone) though this connection may seem tenuous, it serves as a benchmark for change to both his own life and what was happening in the criminal fraternity at the time. One of the nice things about this depiction of events is it accepts that the final version that you do see, may not indeed be the correct one as other probable theories are shown screen. The film has several supporting cast that ably fill their roles including the familiar faces of Billy Murray, Craig Fairbrass, Roland Nanookin (Very underrated actor whose range far exceeds the roles he gets offered) and some new up and coming faces pop up here too who often outclass others in their scenes including Danny Midwinter, Ian Virgo and Jason Maza. The film isn't perfect, a couple of scenes seem a little long and could have been cut without losing any impact and the one or two weaker performers do tend to stand out, proving as always, casting is king, but I found they were minor distractions in a really solid piece of film making. It is regrettable that this film was so easily dismissed as just another British Gangster flick upon its release, as it offers so much more than that and has since (rightly) gained a huge following on DVD. Of the four films that covers the subject of the Ranger Rover murders (I still have yet to see the latest offering) this has thus far proved the strongest and the most interesting, charting as it does the lives of the characters that live in a world that certainly many will not relate to, but will be familiar to those that have been there. While Ricci Hartnett might not quite have captured the real Carlton Leach's razor sharp humor, he adequately fills the role as someone who can only watch as people he cares about spiral into a world where the control he thought he had is proved to be all but frugal. For anyone who wants a real perspective on what the British underworld is all about – the small deals that can go wrong, the back stabbing and the alliances that can be easily broken, as we are shown the roots that someone had that lead them there – this is a truthful, violent and gritty depiction of that world and one that is worthy of your viewing time if you haven't seen it yet.

LondonAcidHouse19881989 Gritty, well-acted, intelligently put together, generally authentic looking and the violence is horrible but that's what's needed to show the viewer just how unpleasant people like this and the violence they mete out is.It's the Hollywood type sanitised violence that should be criticised - one thing this film does is show how unglamourous violent crime is. Problem is a lot of the poor marks given to this film by both the critics and the public are because such people live cosy little middle class lives where luckily for them they've remained firmly insulated from the nasty world portrayed in this film and like to think it doesn't exist.

justinreynolds40 The part of the film where we hear the character make a commentary and go through various years (the acid house scene in particular) was a bit cool and that's about it. The setting is what saves this film a bit, but it's still bloody awful.The film features none of the social commentary and likable humour of Football Factory. It's more like a bloody street fight on a Saturday night outside an Essex nightclub - no rules, violent and not very intelligent.You're basically watching a load of angry gorillas injected with booze and drugs. Every character on this is a stereotype or a cliché. The film just alienates the audience. No-one except the most screwed up of minds can relate to this.The violence is also over the top. A lot of it is absolutely unnecessary. You can tell from watching it that most of the scenes serve no purpose other than to gross out or fascinate the viewers. The scene where some psycho goes to a pizza delivery place to knife up one of the staff with a pizza cutter is just not necessary to the plot at all.Also, If any of you are worried about a lack of sex then don't worry. You're assured to see lots of personality and depth free 'birds' in this film baring their tits and getting their brains shagged out. Seems like the only purpose of women in this is as sexual objects, trophies and targets for abuse. It's a festival of misogyny and it's cringeworthy. You'd be better off watching Eastenders than watch this crap. This film is strictly for the 'lads'.