For anybody abroad who sees this film and is familiar with the touristy London, the sight of these disgusting squalid flats and the amount of kids dealing or hooked on drugs will be shocked. Alas, I fear this is far closer to the real inner city areas than our politicians care to confess, and I pity any child who grows up in these depressing surroundings as they have very little hope.
Aside from having more smackable 'people' in it than any recent film in living memory, it also provides one of the more brutal punch-ups as Wild Bill lays into the gangstas who threaten his children. Well, you'd do the same wouldn't you?
It's not a great drama, with a pretty standard storyline we've all seen before in various guises and lots of shouting which is supposed to pass for acting. But it's never boring, and Charlie Creed-Miles is great as the ex-con titular character. If only all inmates could be as easily reformed as him... 6/10
Aside from having more smackable 'people' in it than any recent film in living memory, it also provides one of the more brutal punch-ups as Wild Bill lays into the gangstas who threaten his children. Well, you'd do the same wouldn't you?
It's not a great drama, with a pretty standard storyline we've all seen before in various guises and lots of shouting which is supposed to pass for acting. But it's never boring, and Charlie Creed-Miles is great as the ex-con titular character. If only all inmates could be as easily reformed as him... 6/10