Enjoyable addition to the Savvas boxset, early Guy Ritchie in flavour.
The film follows a company of loveable rogues from a Greek social club in North London, to whom 'love and loyalty' runs deeper than blood, doing what loveable rogues do and as always managing to get themselves into deeper water from which they have to fight (brutally) to survive.
Ironically the force that drives the sequence of events is the goddess that is Lola, more deadlier a species than the males who have somehow overlooked her powers of seduction; polka playing and cold hearted brutality. Lois Brabain Platt nails it. Great performances throughout: Vinnie Jones at Vinnie Jones best; the operatic love struck Achilles (Savvas); devoted, afflicted Anthony (Jamie Crew) who metamorphises into his own hero at the end. Chris Tummings is also great as Mavron Mike whose little weed side hustle brings a lighter and welcome break from the darker predicament they all find themselves in. Andreas Karras and Marina Sirtis turn out stirling performances and i would liked to have heard more from Nina's character (Yasemin Gravitas) who had a lovely presence but little explanation.
All in all an enjoyable 90 mins of film and loveable characters i would like to revisit.
The film follows a company of loveable rogues from a Greek social club in North London, to whom 'love and loyalty' runs deeper than blood, doing what loveable rogues do and as always managing to get themselves into deeper water from which they have to fight (brutally) to survive.
Ironically the force that drives the sequence of events is the goddess that is Lola, more deadlier a species than the males who have somehow overlooked her powers of seduction; polka playing and cold hearted brutality. Lois Brabain Platt nails it. Great performances throughout: Vinnie Jones at Vinnie Jones best; the operatic love struck Achilles (Savvas); devoted, afflicted Anthony (Jamie Crew) who metamorphises into his own hero at the end. Chris Tummings is also great as Mavron Mike whose little weed side hustle brings a lighter and welcome break from the darker predicament they all find themselves in. Andreas Karras and Marina Sirtis turn out stirling performances and i would liked to have heard more from Nina's character (Yasemin Gravitas) who had a lovely presence but little explanation.
All in all an enjoyable 90 mins of film and loveable characters i would like to revisit.