Well it's British... but so was Charlie Chaplin

Rating: 1/10 (10 February 1999)

Maybe us Brits are just good at this pie-in-the-face type of humour - it was hailed as "The Long Good Friday for the Trainspotting generation", but is actually more like "Bugsy Malone (remember Parker's awful splat-gun farce?) for the Grange Hill generation".
Apart from the bits stolen from Scorcese's Mean Streets, the film's cinematic construction is amateurish. The acting is weak, but if you consider the script they had to attempt to make a drama out of (but only succeeded in creating a crisis for the standards of British cinema), one mustn't pass judgement.
If you like slapstick, go see a Chaplin classic.