Harley Sylvester

Doug Allen

Jay Simpson

Charley Palmer Rothwell

Martin Hancock

Melanie Gutteridge

Cameron Lee Farrelly

Vas Blackwood

Tony Denham

Paul Reynolds

David Essex

Marley Lockhart

Jumayn Hunter

Richard Blackwood

Lorraine Stanley

Dorian Simpson

Donna Kehoe

Craig Canning

Tom Davis

Jamie Belman

Christopher Hatherall

Francesca Leonie

Nina Cranstoun

Emily Corcoran

Adam Harley

Harry Neale

Paul Collin-Thomas

Paul Standell

Malcolm Parker

Tom Dunlea

Rochelle Neil

Alexandra Piasecki

Barrington Patterson

Cass Pennant

Steve Wraith

Gabe Turner

Stelios Koupetoris

Marian Briozzo

Dominic Kinnaird

Ellie Pash

Jude Poyer

Richard Kondal

Paul Burns

Danny Potts

Leo Pearlman

Lottie McDowell

Dean Dodds

Gillian Hawser

Torquil Fleming-Boyd

Fabrizio Sciarra

Jon Euesden

James Friend

Emiliano Battista

Grace Crum

Christopher Gudgeon

Jenny Rhodes

Vicki Williams

Tom Walden

Paul Arnold

Andrew Barnabas

Crime

Thriller

The Guvnors

Fulwell 73 Productions

DP Films

Creativity Capital

United Kingdom

CinemaSerf

We start with gang leader "Adam" (Harley Sylvester) proving who's the boss to the neighbours. A brutal and violent man, he then proceeds to visit a boozer that used to be the haunt of the legendary "Guvnors" where he comes off slightly worse at the hands of the elderly " Mickey" (David Essex). Humiliated, he exacts his revenge and soon the two gangs are heading for a rumble with his newly invigorated opponents led by "Mitch" (Doug Allen). Now had this just stayed on the path of a nasty, vicious, tale of gangland power-struggling, then it might just have been passable. It doesn't! It introduces some frankly ridiculous familial sub-plots and delivers these and the overall narrative via some pretty static dialogue and some even worse acting performances. Sylvester just has no menace to him at all, whatever the expletives are that emanative from his scarred face. Maybe I just recall him too much as the quiet one from "Rizzle Kicks" a bit here, but he is just unremarkable. No more so, it has to be said, than the equally unconvincing "Mitch" whose character reminded me of someone from "Green Street" (2005). It can't have had much of a budget, and the production and editing look the product of basic, single-camera, assemble direction that seems determined to shock us into appreciation rather than engage us with any of these, frankly rather odious, individuals. Maybe it is indicative of aspects of East London life, but presented this way I couldn't honestly say I cared about any of them up to and after it's "West Side Story" style denouement.

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