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Steven Berkoff interrupts a Gand of wannabe gangsters with those abhorrent faux Caribbean accents, trying to assault a young girl. After calling them a curse word that hasn't been heard since the seventies, the one from Eastenders walks on him for a few minutes, and Berkoff sadly expires.

Ian Ogilvy gets rudely awakened from his retirement, on hearing about Berkoff being killed, after all it's his brother. And in one monologue, we learn that these two brothers were The Krays of London, about the same time that The Krays were The Krays, and not The Kemps.

So he comes back from the Med, and calls up his old mates who were in lots of TV series and film in the eighties.......

Yes its Harry Brown meets Reservoir Old Dogs, and you can see the plot points and ending as soon as the credits roll, but these films are just meat and potato fodder, and they do you no harm once in a while.

The concept is Old School versus the gang with the horrible accents, and we all know who wins at the end.

But its nice to see the seasoned actors having a good old time with their grizzled voices and smugness, and although they were villains back in the day, you find yourself giving them empathy, because the E2 gang are just a bunch of morons you would want to slap, because of their lack of respect, and awful dress sense.

Did I mention their blooming irritating accents.

It's all good fun, ending with a shoot up in a hospital, and Alison Doody with so much cosmetic work done, you could swear she eventually found the Holy Grail.

Throwaway stuff, but when this sort of stuff is churned out every other week, its nice to find something that has had a little bit of effort put into it.

Worth watching if you like the genre.

It's one of these films you want to give to a film editing class and say, "Okay, tighten it up!" Think poor man's "Expendables" with a dash of "Reservoir Dogs" Geritol powder mixed in (id Geritol still around? I really don't know.)

So basically an old retired London gang with manners seeks vengeance on a new London punk gang who are dicks, basically because they killed one of the retired guys and posted it on the internet. The new London gang doesn't seem very smart. If you can't tell how this going to end within 20 minutes or so, you're really out of touch.

To their credit I think the actors are all pretty cool (Holy Cow, is that Steven Berkoff?), the actresses need to update their IMDB photos, and props to the director/writer team for throwing in little "twists' that were a pleasant surprise. Won't tell you what they are, see if you enjoy them too. It appears they were trying to make this an ongoing franchise, there is a listed sequel ("We Still Steal the Old Way"), but I haven't seen it and may have to wait for the next pandemic surge to hit. Incidentally, if this is the new wave of "action/comedy budget" films being made in England these days, okay by me.

This movie is about Old School and New school. Old Guys bashing up younger ones. The movie follows the life of Richie who returns to his neighborhood to avenge his brothers murder. The movie has some nice Back ground music. Richie is played well by Ian Ogilvy. Danny-Boy has done a great job as the protagonist. Even though i found it a bit difficult to understand his language it sounded intense. There is a small twist in the movie but I guess most of you can catch it.The screenplay is done out well and sure will not bore you. If you are ready for some fancy stuff (they portray Richie almost equal to Corleone), then you are in for this movie. . I am ready for the second part.

I like the idea far more than the execution. What we have here is a wasted opportunity for a jolly good old-fashioned hard-boiled torture-porn blood-spurting gut churning British gangster knees-up extravaganza Eastend-style. What we get is a graphically restrained and disappointingly timid stab at an old-school crime/revenge thriller that fritters away its potential in favour of annoying camera technique, clichéd scripting, over-the top performances, cartoon caricature characterisation and little in the way of thrills and spills.

It should have amped the violence, pumped the adrenaline and sparked the target. Rather, it tones down, cops out and misses the mark. If a film is going to name-check the Krays and the Richardson Gang then the makers should recognise that the violent methods employed by these people was medieval and then some. What happens on screen should go some reasonable distance to reflecting that, rather than shy away from the gratuitous and explicit nature. If, as the title claims, we still kill the old way, then let's see it, experience it, the power and the horror of it.

The simple plot opens the doors to many possibilities, but fails to capitalise. Old geezer comes to the aid of young girl being primed for gang-rape by a bunch of hoodies and gets stomped to death. But this isn't any old geezer. Oh no, this is Stephen Berkoff playing Charlie Archer, a once revered and feared sixties Eastend crime tsar. Charlie's brother, Richie (Ian Ogilvy) lives a comfortable life in Spain, but upon hearing of his brother's demise returns home for the funeral and a healthy slice of revenge. Three of his old compatriots join him, bemoaning the good old days when the streets were safe because Richie and Charlie killed every threat, real or imagined, and the people were happy and danced a jig of joy from dawn until dusk like Dick Van Dyke on acid. The four pensioners amble about their business with sawn-off shotguns, claw hammers, drills, machetes, knuckle-dusters, etc, to teach the young scum a lesson by kidnapping, torturing and killing them all. Which ought to make them see the error of their ways if anything will.

Should have and could have been an electrifying journey into the dark heart and mind of criminal psychopathy, but opts for a pedestrian trundle into blandness instead. On the way they run into Alison Doody as a wholly improbable police detective investigating Charlie's murder – and a clunky plot device whereby it turns out it was Doody's wayward daughter who Charlie saved from being raped.

On the plus side, good to see Ogilvy back on screen and actually headlining (nice to see him reunited with his WITCHFINDER GENERAL compatriot Nicky Henson), and Berkoff (fleeting though he may be here) is always worth watching. There is a nice line in black humour on occasion and there are brief flashes of inspiration, such as the juxtaposition of criminal styles between the old school and the young upstarts. The oldies are brutally elegant, ruthless, determined, clinical, unflinching, matter-of-fact, whereas the kids are messy, disorganised, borderline-retarded, histrionic and irredeemably vile. Also, they all communicate through a virtually incomprehensible hip-hop street patois which I'm pretty sure no one uses meaningfully outside of a comedy sketch. Subtitles for translation would have helped.

I liked the cheeky reference to THE Italian JOB (1969) at the end – a pleasing touch.

Throughout viewing, I couldn't help imagining how it could have been done so much better, and that's no desirable pursuit for a film to stimulate in an audience during its running time. For fans of British Crime Cinema it's not essential viewing, but it passes the time relatively harmlessly whilst entertaining on a resolutely moderate level. I'm not sure if that is a recommendation.

Owing to the length of the positive reviews given for this film, I can only imagine that they are persons with a vested interest in it; how any serious lover of film can find anything positive to say about this film, other than the admittedly vile behavior/script of some of the gang members, beggars belief.

The acting is atrocious, particularly from both Leading Ladies, Lysette Anthony & Alison Dooley, the script doesn't help though either. Shame on the Casting Director Lee Mountjoy, if this was the best he could dig-up. James Cosmo, he is a Hollywood figure, why did he stoop so low and Steven Berkoff, another global name, well blink and you miss him - everyone else who took payment for this, please go gracefully and make this your last ever showbiz gig, it was all just so bad.

This is the first review I have ever written. I felt compelled to do so because this film is so utterly terrible. Please, do not watch this film, it is a huge Rotten Tomato. And since when do police drive around in Audi TT's, look like a bad extra from Sex in the City and all those bad accents throughout. Just the poorest excuse of a film that I have put myself through for as long as I can remember, well, apart from maybe The November Man with Pierce Brosnan!

We Still Kill The Old Way ... (When retired East End villain Charlie Archer is murdered by a feral street gang, his brother Ritchie returns to London from Spain to investigate) ... Apart From The Fact That UK Films Tend To Move Along Slower Than American Films This Was A Great Movie ... After Charlie Is Killed (Protecting A Girl Who Was Being Attack) His Brother And 3 Friends Go After The Street Gang Responsible ... At The End Of The Movie We Also Find Out Who These 5 Guys Were In Their Younger Days (In Reference To Another Great Movie) ... Story Line, Action And Acting Make This Movie A Good Watch ... Nothing Beats Old School ...

A gang of mindless scroats kill an old miscreant' brother. The ex-eastender gangster and his chums take revenge, in the old fashioned way.

I am currently watching this for the second time, largely to see if the scroats were as stupid as I remember the first time I watched it. They are! How anyone, whilst tied up and under 'duress' can issue threats of death to the old fellas, if they don't let them go, is beyond me. Just demonstrates how utterly stupid and arrogant young miscreants are.

I DO love it when the low-lifes get their comeuppance. Ian Ogilvy is splendid in his role and should be doing more since 'The Saint".

I seldom write reviews ( this is my second ) except when praise ( in this case ) or derision is necessary.

This was a great movie for about the first two-thirds. And then it just begins to unravel. The ending was a complete letdown. The script was to blame. This was a great cast - these old crooks getting together again to avenge a death - they were great. And at the end, it seemed as if they were setting up a sequel. Even though I was somewhat disappointed with how the movie just petered out with an almost non-sensical shootout in a hospital, I was hoping they would make a sequel and get it right this time. Oh and the main hoodlum's girlfriend is the daughter of the detective in charge of the murder investigation? Please.

WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY is another low budget British gangster thriller, a bit better than most thanks to some smart casting. As leads we get old timers including Chris Ellison, James Cosmo and Ian Ogilvy, making this a gangster version of THE EXPENDABLES mixed with a dark HARRY BROWN-style revenge plot if you will. The film suffers from a poor script that favours the usual kind of expletive-filled nonsense over much in the way of the wit, although there are some funny lines here and there. Way too much screen time is given over to some truly loathsome characters, more than they deserve, which makes some of this hard to sit through, and Dani Dyer has no discernable talent. But given the constraints of the budget this could be a lot worse; two sequels have followed.

We Kill is a decent retelling of Harry Brown. However, it lacks the sheer personality and grit that Michael Cain brought to the story in Harry Brown (think British Charles Bronson/Death Wish). It's still a decent East Ender revenge/vigilante film. The plot is, as I said, almost identical to Harry Brown with a few minor changes. It's still very entertaining and I enjoyed seeing the old guys getting their gangster on.

In my opinion the film built tension and action nicely but reached its peak to soon and then petered out with an almost anticlimactic end. It would have been nice to see some of the subplots developed a bit more as well. It left the characters coming off as a bit 2 dimensional at times.

Overall, not a waste of time like some more recent old guy films made by action stars approaching the end of their careers and willing to act in anything. If you want a decent British vigilante film this one will do the job. But, if you want the best of the old guy films watch Harry Brown instead. Michael Cain does not disappoint.