Danny Dyer plays a sensitive man in touch with his feminine side (Only Kidding!) (The Business (DVD))

Member Name: huggy2009

Product:	The Business (DVD)
Date:	07/06/09 (11 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good acting, good set pieces, attention to detail

Disadvantages: Very laddish and boys playing with guns and bad language

A film directed by the British director, Nick Love, this is set in the 80's and really gets into the era well, following Brits on the Costa del Crime.

The film wants to be a really sharp British Gangster film, it follows Frankie (Danny Dyer) a kid who gets in with Charlie (Tamer Hassan) a noted gangster, and Sammy (Geoff Bell), Charlies partner in crime. Charlie thinks Frankie is great and makes him his right hand man, but the psychopathic Sammy hates Frankie and wants t break him.

The film follows the rise of this South London gangster clan, we see the development of the Costa Del Sol as a getaway for the great and good, hiding out after jobs have gone good or bad. The film then follows as things go sour and retribution kicks in.

The film is actually very good, it is very geezerish, loads of swearing and cockney rhyming slang, but there is a good story in there and the acting is fairly convincing. Danny Dyer plays against type as a hard as nails geezer (only kidding, its Danny Dyer playing the role he always plays!), but he does enough to nearly convince, although as always he comes across as a wannabe rather than a player, Hussan and Bell are far more convincing as genuine nutters. Some of the scenes are violent and there is a real nasty air to the film.

The attention to detail of the era is great with a fantastic soundtrack, some brilliant locations and the clothing is spot on, the music is really good fun too. The cinematography and direction are assured and this is a cut above most UK geezer movies of that time. It doesn't have the excitement of 'Lock Stock' but the character development is more interesting and it feels more realistic.

Overall its a pretty good British film that ends as you kind of expect it would, if you don't like Danny Dyer being Danny Dyer you won't like this at all, if you can take all that with a pinch of salt, then this is a good film.

Summary: A very good British Gangster Film