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GANGSTER No. 1

"Tough British Gangsters is an Oxymoron!"
Directed by Paul McGuigan - Written by Johnny Ferguson
Starring Paul Bettany, Saffron Burrows, Malcolm McDowell & David Thewlis
Distributed by IFC - 2002 - 103m - Rated R

TC Candler's Review

D

Nope... Didn't Buy It!

This train wreck of a movie is composed primarily of scenes with gay British actors prancing around trying to act hard and tough. The overt and failed attempt to be a new 'Clockwork Orange', 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels' amalgam is an embarrassing example of the new wave of British films we've seen recently... the Brits just can't pull off this hyper-cool gangster vibe... quite frankly it's laughable watching them try. I suggest they go back to making quiet and dainty tea-party / period-piece movies starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins... at least they're pretty good at that.

Gangster No.1 is a joke... it evokes about as much fear and terror as a Merchant Ivory production.

This thing stinks so bad that it should have been called Gangster No.2

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