A load of old bunkum (Rise Of The Footsoldier (DVD))

Member Name: dangaroo

Product:	Rise Of The Footsoldier (DVD)
Date:	08/10/09 (29 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Some decent acting

Disadvantages: Generally boring and predictable

Rise of the Footsoldier is yet another film which involves the ICF (West Ham's football hooligan firm in the 80s), unlike the other recent releases this film doesn't really revolve around it but merely features it during the early stages, it is basically a drama which focuses on the life of Carlton Leach. How much is fact and how much is fiction, I suppose we'll not know but it seems a pretty poor effort to me. The football hooligan turned club door runner, really is an unlikeable chap, there's no way that anyone could really like him - he's just a prat. Likewise are many other characters in the programme.

It seems to show little imagination, be profane throughout and really has very little going for it, I've no idea how it's gone to such dizzy heights as an overall 3 rating on dooyoo, as it's one of the worst British films I've seen in recent times. The only real action comes at the end (it basically builds up to the Rettendon murders) and there's really nothing to grab on to, the film is boring throughout. I only really held in there, to see how it ended - which was rather predictable.

Perhaps the only really good thing about this film is that the actors do come across as completely unlikeable, if that was intended - they've done a very good job. It's certainly not a film you want to watch for the baby food eating, steroid taking, solariumised chaps of which Tony Tucker (Terry Stone) is easily the most nauseating.

The film shows this gang to be a complete shambles and the film really is rather dire.

Summary: Full of cursing, nothing interesting going on