Very South East London gangster reality!

Rating: 10/10 (18 January 2006)

Following Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels would have been no easy task without the input of Brad Pitt. However he obviously saw the potential of this film and, I believe, offered his services for next to nothing. Having said that it was an enormous risk to star an American actor in the role of such a strangely particular person as "The Pikey" and I am so impressed with Richie's bravery and Pitt's abilities. The editing of the film is such an incredibly cohesive representation of the reality it seeks to portray. The violent and comically black survival humor it depicts, along with the adrenaline rush of street lunacy it encompasses was and is about as accurate as you can get. Life as it is for those who want to be upwardly mobile at the hard end of London. What's more I am a Pikey!
The only caveat would be, subtitles for the rest of the Planet.