Full English Breakfast (2014) User Reviews

Total Rubbish

[timshaw-1 · 2/10 · 5 July 2014]

Just watched this film, for free, thank God. What a load of predictable and stupid rubbish.

The script, storyline and acting are truly awful. What makes it even harder to watch is ALL the sound effects and dialogue appear to have been over dubbed onto the film, so any acting that was done is lost!!.

The acting is really bad, the story is even worse.

I have to agree with other comments about the fake reviews. When you look at all the reviews scoring this film highly, ALL the reviewers joined IMDb in April 2014 !!!!!!

I recommend everyone avoid this film, unless their house or a friend is in the background, cos there is no other reason to waste any time on this film. It really, really is rubbish. I am sure the film people didn't set out to make a bad film, but it should have been shelved. It is not a film to have on a CV.

Positive reviews come from brand new accounts with only one review

[kodabar · 3/10 · 24 April 2014]

This is a film that might have been. It might have had a good story. It might have had good sound. It might have had good acting. It might have had good editing. It might have had good pacing. But it doesn't.

Dave Courtney has always been an odd sort of chap. He was a gangster, a terribly bad man as he never tires of telling people. I don't know the story behind it all, but when an awful lot of underworld figures accuse you of embellishing your past then one has to wonder. The thing is, he's actually quite a decent actor. He had a small part in The Krays film which he did well. But ever since he's been trying to get himself into gangster films, but they've always been very low budget and unambitious. And he always plays the kind of character that he'd have liked to have been in real life. And this film is more of the same.

I really would like to see Courtney given a character part in a decent film with a good director and crew that can get the most out of him. I think he'd shine.

Full English Breakfast is a bad film. It's not terrible, just terribly mediocre. It's very clear that most of the crew are very inexperienced. Listen to the sound - it's all been dubbed on afterwards and not particularly well. I don't know if they didn't have enough money to pay a sound man or if they just screwed it all up, but the sound is bad. The camera work is almost okay, but it's uninspired and fails to give much sense of drama. The story is weak and predictable and, worst of all, not very believable.

The editing is bad - it's been done in a hurry and the whole film would have benefited from a couple of months of editing to pare it down. As it stands, every scene and almost every shot drags on for too long, losing any sense of tension or drama.

If you want to watch people learning how to use film equipment for the first time, then this is your film. It's a shame, as a more experienced crew could have turned this into an okay, but unspectacular little film that might have been a nice surprise when stuck with nothing to watch. The story and plot aren't good enough to turn it into anything beyond a 5/10 with even the finest at the helm, but it could have been okay. Trying to hype this up as a British Scarface just makes it even more of a disappointment when you see it. As it stands, it's boring. And to be able to make gangsters, violence, betrayals, etc into a dull film is the only real crime going on here.

The positive reviews are obvious shills. They're just way too positive. Here's a tip, review-fakers: don't just give nines and tens, give a few sixes and sevens and you'll seem a lot more believable. And don't all register your accounts at the same time. And maybe post a couple of reviews for other films too. Then we might just believe you.

what can i say bad from start to the last cut scene of the film

[hottdebbs · 2/10 · 25 April 2014]

OK from the start some of you must have watched a other film as there is no way this is a good granted the story line was not to bad . but my god the acting was shocking the camera work and i will not even start on the sound effects i actuality watched 10 minuets and thought this is not going to be good so i thought i will look at the review and was surprised to see mostly good ones yes i also think they are fake ..the London scar face even to mention that film with this one is a disgrace so he randomly finds his dads wallet what , the last part of the film habbeb or what ever he was called was kicked in the head lost count but 2 minuets later he looks fine and as for the Paris scene of my god what was that about the teeth the teeth there coming to get me please stop this film and at the end just when i thought they were going to cut his head off no they just rub the knife over his neck , tell me this is a wind up i only gave it a 2 as i managed to stay awake all the way through it and be leave me that takes some doing

Dross! Complete and utter dross!!!

[Mani-bains76 · 1/10 · 9 July 2014]

After writing this review, I'm going to get a chisel and hammer and see if I can dig this offencive mess out of my brain! Definitely the worst movie ever made! I know people say that all the time about films they've disliked but trust me, this IS the worst movie ever made. Atrocious - heavily wooden acting, banal dialogue (like a 12 year old trying to write a gangster story) and edited at times like the editor had suddenly zoned out on cannabis! BUT taking the biscuit is the diabolical sound editing, in particular the scandalous post-sync dubbing of the entire dialogue heard in the film. Absolutely laughable Production values.

Manish Patel needs to stop film making altogether before he causes somebody to take their own life after watching one of his hideous creations!!!

Avoid avoid avoid.

[nigel-50-590399 · 1/10 · 10 July 2014]

I'll be honest I never write reviews for a film, I love most the films I watch but this is the far the worst film I have ever watched it was like watching an old 70's movie without the porn.

Acting from the whole cast is just dreadful and they must have just been paid magic beans or been under the influence of drugs because even a non actor/actress could act better then this bunch of Muppet's.

The black guys is just freaky and looked like a reject from an old 007 film.

The woman actress couldent act for toffee but looked like Tracy Barlow from Corrie

I have wasted 90 Min's of my life watching this film and I'll never get that back so unless you are using drugs avoid wasting your time on this complete and utter nosh.

complete dog's dinner

[simonpcpearson · 1/10 · 15 June 2014]

This is a truly amateurish attempt at making a movie. It isn't as good as the student movies found for free on youtube.

The script is the strongest element, and even that is dreadful. It is completely predictable, simplistic and clichéd. It is however much better than the direction.

The cast are uniformly embarrassing, even making allowances for the complete incompetence of Manish Patel's direction. Even amongst the general low level of acting special mention must be made of Lucy Drive, whose expression never changes even when someone is trying to kick her to death.Some unkind viewers have suggested that Drive's permanent befuddled expression hints at a fondness for Dopey Dave's Dodgy Drugs.I think there may be another explanation. Dave Courtney plays dave Bishop, Jamie Bannerman plays Jamie, poor Lucy plays dave's wife Susie. The poor thing has to remember a slightly different name, and this takes up much of her acting ability.

There is entertainment to be had if you abandon the idea of this film as a thriller and laugh at the incompetence.

I screamed with laughter when Dave picked jamie as his driver because he drove tanks in the army. " tanks, motorbikes, helicopters it's all the same"revealing why he is not a criminal mastermind. And he's the CLEVER brother.

One would need a heart of stone not to laugh when the drug dealer's wife ( the wooden spoon of trophy wives) tries to seduce Jamie on the nightclub dancefloor. The sight of the two of them hopping pathetically from foot to fooot like embarrassed eleven year olds at a school disco has to be seen to be believed.

Don't, just don't!!

[andrewn800 · 1/10 · 7 November 2014]

Wet afternoon, nothing on TV, put this on. Read some reviews on here.....Nothing could have prepared me for what followed. Even though some are accurate, the 8,9 and 10 scores made me give it a go, more fool me. I wouldn't know where to start if I actually went into detail. But, if you read all the positive reviews and decide to watch this utter drivel, then; don't say you haven't been warned. It is badly made, acted terribly, edited for sound by someone with terrible hearing and totally derivative.

It's utterly appalling!

Leave well alone.

I feel insulted

[dancindannyp · 1/10 · 25 January 2015]

Firstly, there is no way on God's earth this movie did $3.3million at the box office. I watched this in disbelief. It must have cost a tenner to make, it seemed like an embarrassing uni project. How this even got financed is beyond me. Someone somewhere said "you know what? This is a bloody good script, lets make it and get the cream of British actors to star in it". Well that person deserves to be locked up in a mental hospital. The only good thing to come out of this movie is the fact that it has given hope to all the new up and coming film makers. This is what you're up against folks, the bar couldn't get any lower. I don't know if it was made ironically as a spoof homage to all the bad gangster movies out there, if it was then great work but somehow I don't think it was. However, I urge anybody to watch this to see how unbelievably bad it really is. Take special notice of the sound effects in all the fight scenes. Priceless.

Rubbish !!

[rayner-forster · 1/10 · 19 May 2014]

I have never been more compelled to, or ever written a review on here before and I watch endless films of all genres/ages etc. THIS IS SO VERY BAD ITS HILARIOUS ! Never heard such rubbish acting. Waiting for each other to finish their sentence, then a pause, then next person 'reading' it like off a script, OMG its worse than a school play rehearsal with script sheets in hand. No acting in their voices either, just lifeless reading of lines. Only the main character, bald guy, has a slightest hint of different tones in his voice..... Im honestly embarrassed for them making and releasing this. Watch if you want a giggle but not if you want an exciting British gangster style film like we were expecting.

Possibly the worst movie I've ever seen.

[bryhain84 · 1/10 · 25 May 2014]

I say possibly because after 15 mins I couldn't stand any more, so I find it difficult to compare to the other contender, Get Lucky, which I also turned off after 15 to 20 mins.

I should have trusted the IMDb average rating of 4 but I was conned by the 6 pages of reviews consistently giving it 8 or more, with comments including "triumph", "best movie I've seen this year", "epic" and "Shakespearean". Who are these people? Well whoever they are most of them signed up between 1 month and 1 month 2 weeks ago, just after the movie was released.

If I were a cynic I'd say that someone from the production team has spent a couple of hours creating fake accounts and writing glowing reviews of a s***e movie. In fact I am saying that. The only thing that baffles me is why would someone want to draw attention to such a poorly made movie? All anyone who is conned into watching it will think is that it's terrible.

Onto the movie itself. Wooden acting. I mean seriously bad, totally unconvincing. I mean even to the extent that someone trying to simply look at something looked poorly acted. I still don't know how that can be achieved.

If you've ever seen Big Fat Quiz of the Year you may remember the children of Mitchell Brook Primary School acting out various new stories from throughout the year. The actors in this movie must look to those kids in admiration. That's how bad this movie is.

Do yourself a favour, trust the bad IMDb rating and avoid this one. With most, if not all, of the 60 good reviews twisting average from 200 votes as I write this, the score should really be lower than 4.

I know how they saved Money . They stole the script !!

[jrossi-94337 · 31 October 2021]

This film is a rehash of the 1946 Movie ,The Chase, with Robert Cummings and Steve Cochran. A down on your luck veteran is broke and hungry and finds a wallet. He uses some of the money for a meal ,and then returns the wallet to the owner, a gangster, that hires him to be his chauffeur. He befriends the gangsters wife and help her leave her husband. DUH !! Guess what. She wanted to go to France. Rip off !!!

Excellent British movie- and about time!

[Forthcomer · 8/10 · 10 April 2014]

I was surprised when turning up in my local supermarket to find a new British Film on the shelf! The name says it all and it appealed enough to take a look and eventually buy it. I was not disappointed at all and it inspired me enough to write and rant all about it.

Full English Breakfast, a story about Jamie Sullivan, dishonourably discharged from serving in Afghanistan winds up back in the UK looking for work. He stumbles on the Bishop household and very quickly Jamie earns the trust of Dave Bishop, infamous gangster who puts some work in Jamie's direction. When Jamie realises that he is neck-high in dodgy arrangements, answered questions and a love interest, he finds himself fighting through a dark underworld- for his one main interest and we wonder if he has bitten off more than he can chew.

I have to say, I really enjoyed this. From what seems an independent film production company suddenly plonking this onto our shelves, I was pleasantly surprised. The story was simple but effective because it was very well told. There are scenes of incredible violence, involving some.. creative use of sports accessories, but again, this fitted in well with the story- and yes, there is a story in it! The nice thing about Full English Breakfast is- whilst an easy to follow storyline, you weren't always too sure of where it was all leading until you got there. The characters were well thought out which quickly slotted quite nicely with the setting. Dave Bishop's character provides a menacing, mostly calm and controlled gang leader which often left me on edge, anticipating his next order.

And that's all you need. As nice as a reputable blockbuster action movie can be- if Full English Breakfast is a contrast, it's an excellent one. Characters were well played, Jamie Sullivan's portrayal of a troubled individual who had seen too much made him likable and a willingness to make it happen. Well I wasn't disappointed and it gets played out in a spectacular fashion, with the annoyingly annoying Derek Bishop hiding behind his brothers reputation, sniping at the competition. I very much enjoyed the disturbing snarls from Pete, Casper's trusting bodyguard- enough to put you off your Full English! All in all, I liked it. Put it on and remove any preconceptions you may have involving bombs everywhere, explosions and over hyped dialogue. Full English Breakfast, a modest beautifully sculptured story that will have you sitting comfortably waiting for that ever coming new twist. Just reading the previous review had me thinking that a good film deserves a good review.

Anyway, I recommend you have a good look at this one.

Sounds cool but don't bother......

[jmirendez · 1/10 · 22 August 2014]

I am not usually a hater of "non-Hollywood" or "B" movies but this was TERRIBLE. I was so convinced that the movie would get better that I watched it all the way through and in hindsight I don't know how or why I didn't turn it off. Just an all around waste of film and money which leaves the viewer wanting to take the time back they spent watching it. Bad acting, terrible and plain stupid all together story-line, and an insult to "Scarface", "Pulp Fiction", and the gangster- movie genre in general. I did however reward one {mandatory} point for cinematography because, even though it was very hard to enjoy, there were some decent shots in the movie that could have been much more realized in a different movie all-together! I am sorry to anyone {like me} who has already wasted time on this movie because it sounded cool and to those of you who are considering watching; My advice to you: DON"T!

I'd rather have a bowl of Museli!!!

[eriks-183-422997 · 1/10 · 11 December 2014]

Oh my good god! This has to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen! Does IMDb allow makers and 'actors' to comment on their own productions in here? because anyone who rates this over one star (zero would be preferable) must be either of those.

The acting is diabolical, the sound is dubbed on the movie post filming and the 'storyline' a joke - the whole thing came across as a school project gone bad.

If I hadn't lost the will to live, I'd write about the plot and characters, but in fairness, it'd be a waste of time - AVOID THIS UTTER TURKEY - keep your rotten tomatoes to throw at something deserving of them!

Not worth a congolese franc!

[deanpjackson_1973 · 1/10 · 6 August 2014]

I find 95% of British movies great and , to be honest, am probably rather biased, as I tend to dislike typical Hollywood movies, save a few. Even the British movies a lot of people do not like, I tend to. This is the reason I decided to watch the film, after reading the negative reviews on IMDb. A decision I regret. A single penny, cent, yuan or congolese franc spent on this movie is one utterly wasted. It is simply an abomination.

Firstly it is just odd, very odd. The timing in every scene is completely off, the dialogue ridiculous and the acting appalling. At one point I genuinely suspected it was a joke and they were attempting some kind of humour by acting as poorly as possible. In fact, perhaps they were. It is the only explanation I can come to.

The film is also accompanied by unnecessary sound effects. The front door to a house closing or opening has the sound effect of a creaking barn door and the sound of footsteps on normal floors replaced by hollow sounding steps. This is all the way through and the effects simply do not match the sound they are replacing would make. This has to be done on purpose, no-one could purposely make such glaring errors. The reason for this is perplexing. Maybe they were trying to be clever or 'arty'. If so, it was a huge failure on both counts.

It seems to have both very bad and very good reviews on IMDb. Like other commentators I can only assume the good reviews were left by people with a vested interest. I'd rather read war and peace backwards in Finnish than complete watching this film.

Worst Film Ever Made

[praybould5 · 1/10 · 22 January 2015]

I can not understand what made me sit through this rubbish? It was appalling, the worst of the worst. An English, Spaghetti Western, mixed with a Chinese martial arts film! I feel devastated that I wasted nearly two hours of my life watching it. It did look like a creative tech class at school that knocked up the screen play for a level 1 BTEC (sorry kids, you would have made a better job) This film rating could easily have been given minus figures. Please, please do not ever make another film, I am just glad I never paid to watch it, or even god forbid. to have bought it!

Stick to being a doorman!

This film stinks!

[nigel_cummings · 1/10 · 6 August 2014]

Forget the 9/10 star reviews you will see about this farrago of a film, they are almost certainly fake. This film redefines the verb "stinks". 90 minutes of utter tripe, whoever has penned the script needs to go back to primary school and start learning how to write in English from scratch. If you are a fan of awful dubbing, wooden acting, hackneyed predictable story lines, lousy dialogue, poor editing, crummy camera work and utterly unbelievable scenarios, this could be the film for you - if on the other hand you have a functioning brain, you would be best advised to avoid this rubbish like the plague! Amazed to see this bilge is now available on DVD!

This breakfast gave me salmonella

[vincentqlauzon · 1/10 · 24 February 2016]

What a terrible load of old rubbish. Dave Courtney commits yet another crime against the film industry, abetted by a terrible script,lame direction and the acting efforts of Bannerman ( where am I?) andLucy Drive ( I had a lobotomy but it doesn't affect my acting). No plot, no suspense, no action, the entire thing is like wading through treacle,

I can't remember a worse feature film, and the director (I can't even be bothered to scroll up to check his name), takes his rightful place alongside the bottom of the barrel scrapers like Liam Galvin, Drew Cunningham and Neil Jones.

Might be worth a viewing with plenty of friends and even more beer, under those circumstances it might be fun, but if you are looking for a gangster movie or a thriller then avoid this like the rancid offering that it is.

Shockingly bad

[taffrican · 1/10 · 12 March 2015]

I was warned beforehand about how bad this movie was, I really wished I'd listened, 2hrs of my life I will never get back!! the entire budget of this movie must have been about £5, worst acting I have ever seen, really cheap effects and make up....as for the soundtrack? I could have done better by recording the top 40 about 30yrs ago. The story has huge gaps in and really doesn't have any real continuity, cheap wardrobe and it looks like the main character is wearing safety boots for the most part to go with his cheap suit. At the beginning of the movie the main character is described as smelly and scruffy, but he is best dressed tramp I've ever seen for someone who has been sleeping rough he has perfectly pressed trousers and t-shirt. Do yourself a favour and give this one a miss. Seriously, don't bother!!

Complete dross

[losriley-1 · 1/10 · 2 May 2015]

Full English Breakfast? More like a dogs dinner. Writing,acting,directing,editing as all sub standard. The dialogue at times is incredibly inane "France is so far away". Says one character who later takes the Eurostar to Paris. One of the actors does not say anything but he does bite his bottom lip to let us know he is thinking.The sound is often completely out of sink with the action. The padlock on the lock up could probably be cut with a pair of blunt scissors.The fake reviews on here are more literate than the script but as laughable as the film.Dave hits people with a golf club while playing the Four Seasons.No doubt celebrating his kill with some Lambrusco.The look of the film is like a school project and at no time does anything resembling a professional standard of film making occur. I watched this "film" and I use the term loosely as I was amazed that something so poor found its way onto Netflix.Avoid at all costs.Unless of course you want to buy a family pack of crisps and have a right East end knees up watching this trash.

A very credible 9 out of 10

[gboothby · 9/10 · 10 April 2014]

Dave Bishop (Dave Courtney) is as hard as nails and he will beat you to death with a golf club if you dare to cross him. He runs the ecstasy scene in London and Kent but he wants the world to believe he is retired from his life of crime. He's short, barrel-chested, with a bald dome head and teeth that always seem to be grinding away. This film is all about how employing the wrong person caused Dave's whole world to come apart.

Full English Breakfast is very nearly masterful and is a very tough piece of filmmaking, that could have done with bit more of a budget to make it a true great. But it's clear that the makers of the film were more concerned with the actual plot and getting it all filmed then get bogged down with hanging around for the money and who can blame them. There are lots of good ideas for films but how many of these ideas get made into actual films? I think the point of this film isn't to analyse how Dave Bishop's life fell apart. It's to present a portrait of the man and his ruthlessness. And you will rarely see a film character so completely alive. Bishop is a cruel, evil and sadistic mess of a man. But he's a mass of contradictions, and there are times when he narrates his life in flashback scenes that we understand him so completely we can feel affection for him.

I for one am looking forward to the next instalment but please spend more money on it.

Thoroughly disappointing film

[me-58782 · 1/10 · 13 June 2015]

I have never rated a film 1 out of 10, but this is an absolutely terrible film and nobody should waste their time on it, with seriously poor production, script, it's one of those films that makes your skin crawl whilst watching it.

The whole audio track appears to be have remastered / dubbed because it doesn't fit the lip movements of the actors, characters supposedly having recently arrived in the UK from Afghanistan speak in strong East London accents.

For what little plot there is, the pacing is bad, slow and conversational throughout, there is just nothing to like, and it's shocking that this film is almost 2 hours long!

Any scenes involving violence are poorly staged and clearly no stunt experts were in play, just some make-up artists that create wounds after the effect to make it look like something has happened!

Photocopies of £50 notes, yeah, that sums up the budget.

[laedawson · 1/10 · 27 December 2015]

This film is hilarious. Everything about it is dreadful. From the young gangster's wife who, despite being filthy rich and living in Dover, seems to be unable to make it to her dreamland of France (oooo, I wonder what the people are like over there? What, about an hour away from your house?) to the post production dubbing and disturbingly wooden acting. There isn't a plot. There isn't a soundtrack as they seem to only have the rights to one song. The comedy value sort of makes it worth watching but actually it isn't worth watching, I don't want to take the blame for subjecting you to it. It's also mildly racist, but the waterboarding scene is much funnier than anything I've seen for a long while. The one thing that could make it worse would be the presence of Danny Dyer. But not much.

Biggest waste of time ever

[zombiemichelle · 1/10 · 11 April 2014]

May contain spoilers. I don't want to waste any time on this really, but if I can save one person it would be worth it....... I love British gangster movies, This however is such nonsense. British gangsters should put a hit out on everyone associated with it.

Even the editors gave up, that's why it's 109:30 of the worst minutes, you'll never get back in your life... Sorry but I think the writers and their families must be giving this good reviews... I really have a high threshold for crappy movies so for me to say that a movie sucks, it really has to suck.. The ONLY thing I can say that didn't completely suck is Dave Courtney, just to be fair.. but everyone else, especially the gal that played his wife and the black guy in the Paris hotel scene.. That's all I'm saying, if you make it to that bit without wanting to kill yourself by swallowing the remote control, then kudos to you.. I want to die just thinking about it again..

Terrible

[dtr2011 · 1/10 · 13 April 2014]

Please don't spend any money on this film. It has gone straight to DVD is should have gone straight to the bin it is that bad. In fact it is so bad it is in danger of becoming good.

I only watched this because it had a fairly high rating. I cannot believe anyone would rate this above 1, it has to be the worst film I have seen. I went back to check the positive reviews and everyone of them has only been a member for at most 2 days and have only reviewed this one film.

I think that IMDb needs to do more to stop spam reviews if we are to take this site seriously.

PS This is my first review and the only reason I have reviewed this is to make people aware of all the fake reviews.