Our Eddy (2018) User Reviews

We aren't in this together!

[fostrhod · 5/10 · 14 February 2023]

Our Eddy, a Liverpool film. It's a big labour of love this film. Written directed by and starring Jonny Hirst, it presumably is the story based on his mum and dads life and how Eddy a well respected man in the community and well loved family man. Comes to his untimely demise.

The film is a loving tribute to his parents and is a worthy watch. Hopefully it's a stepping stone for the writer and crew as it's a decent film.

Plot line is pretty straight forward, Eddy in search for that one big win on the gee gees much to the annoyance of his long suffering wife. His family are desperate for them to leave this part of Wavertree and move in with them and their grandkids. Wavertree is a decaying mess, Eddy and Tony are seen at the beginning of the film morning of the gradual decay, blaming the thieving banks, respective governments and druggies and scallies. Sad but this could be any inner city in the UK.

We aren't in this together.

Unreal

[jonnysmith-77270 · 1/10 · 7 October 2020]

Is this supposed to be a comedy film because it had me in stitches the whole plot of the story is bizarre and makes no sense at all. So if this is the calibre of this city's future film maker's well then this city doesn't have a future in the tv and film industry

Zero Stars.

[joegarbled-79482 · 1/10 · 13 September 2023]

A dreadful, depressing way of passing 45 minutes. The "acting" such as it was, wasn't even good enough for "Brookside" but the Scouse accents were just as impenetrable at times, for outsiders.

The locations were mostly grim, with many streets full of little terraced houses, abandoned and rendered urban explorer proof....a little glimpse of Woolton Village provided some very necessary relief from the grim stuff.

Probably the most memorable scene and the worst one too, was the implied killing of a guy by a dangerous dog. Blood left on a roadside grating is about as graphic as it gets (apart from a gang leader's mother getting pushed over in her doorway by rival gang members out for revenge).

This "movie" hardly serves as a tourist brochure for Liverpool as the guy who gets killed was an innocent bystander who'd just won a few grand on the gee-gees. Gang bangers turning to violence, two Muslim women stealing the old feller's shopping off the pavement, what a wonderful picture it paints of the city and its supposedly good humoured people. (Stan Boardman told a couple of jokes but it had no chance of rescuing the damage done by the rest of this miserable story.) Zero out of ten.

Excellent movie with a gripping story line

[antominus · 10/10 · 28 September 2018]

Johnny Hurst is a great writer and after watching this movie of what he has written and directed i can say he has given alot of thought to the story told.

The cast are a great asset to the movie including stan boardman who i think gives this film the added bonus of having a Liverpool based actor who has seen the spotlight before.

Excellent film keep up the good work mr Johnny Hurst.