I Stumbled upon this for free online the other day and I remember hearing about it when I was younger over a decade ago and decided to give it a shot. I felt like the plot had a lot of potential, but it was poorly executed. It's interesting that they have it take place in a dystopian impoverished London in 2015. People fight for food and to survive. The main plot is Junior and his brother getting into a fight with a rival gang and his brother gets stabbed to death. He is only 14 and has no on besides his brothers friends and he wants revenge against a gang member named Tugz. His brother and his gang are against violence and mainly try to obtain decent food and sell it to others if needed, they don't believe in killing. As time goes on they encounter others who feel Tugz and his gang has wronged them until they finally all meet and fight.
I liked the supporting characters more than the main honestly though for a kid he did a decent job portraying grief. The others: Kickz played by Adam Deacon who was also in Kidulthood which I feel a lot of elements were taken from that. Sweet boy, who is easy on the eyes played by Jan Uddin and Crazee, who isn't so bad himself and his dog are the supporting crew and comic relief. Kaya Scodelario is also billed highly in the film but she really only is in a third of the movie and it's just to move the plot. In the end Junior kills Tugz but in an anticlimactic sort of way and that wraps up the film and it's bleak for an ending.
For a 90 minute film it has alot of filler involved like a few animated dreamscapes and a perspective on a chase scene which really aren't needed. They have a club scene which is supposed to move the plot and they have Tempah T perform almost the entire song "Next Hype". I liked how they did have some grime rappers involved in the music part of the movie and Bashy playing Rager. I recalled this movie marketing and hyping up their soundtrack, they even had cool songs on a website and everything! However I was sort of disappointed especially when during this time they could have also featured upcoming Dubstep artists since this was like 2010 and it was just starting to spread in the states. There also was alot of product placements I noticed like Kickz and his Nikes, the boys talking about McDonald's and Apple products. This was clearly a low budget the way they made it in my opinion. At least now I know to warn others, it's not the best film.
I liked the supporting characters more than the main honestly though for a kid he did a decent job portraying grief. The others: Kickz played by Adam Deacon who was also in Kidulthood which I feel a lot of elements were taken from that. Sweet boy, who is easy on the eyes played by Jan Uddin and Crazee, who isn't so bad himself and his dog are the supporting crew and comic relief. Kaya Scodelario is also billed highly in the film but she really only is in a third of the movie and it's just to move the plot. In the end Junior kills Tugz but in an anticlimactic sort of way and that wraps up the film and it's bleak for an ending.
For a 90 minute film it has alot of filler involved like a few animated dreamscapes and a perspective on a chase scene which really aren't needed. They have a club scene which is supposed to move the plot and they have Tempah T perform almost the entire song "Next Hype". I liked how they did have some grime rappers involved in the music part of the movie and Bashy playing Rager. I recalled this movie marketing and hyping up their soundtrack, they even had cool songs on a website and everything! However I was sort of disappointed especially when during this time they could have also featured upcoming Dubstep artists since this was like 2010 and it was just starting to spread in the states. There also was alot of product placements I noticed like Kickz and his Nikes, the boys talking about McDonald's and Apple products. This was clearly a low budget the way they made it in my opinion. At least now I know to warn others, it's not the best film.