Outlaw (2007)

When the directors (Nick Love) previous credits have been 'The Football Factory' and 'The Business' you know what to expect. As in the director's previous movie's, this stars Danny Dyer, a guy people either love or loathe, me? I don't mind the cheeky cockney. The main man though is Sean Bean, a former paratrooper who assembles a gang of like minded individuals out to extract justice on Britain's streets, something they see the law is failing to do so.

Very much like a Death Wish' 2007, or the under-rated Michael Douglas flick 'The Star Chamber', this is a movie about revenge and vigilantism. The film has received many negative reviews, The Guardian labelling it "crime revenge porn", yes it's non pc but the ideas in the film are what a lot of fed up Britain's are thinking right now, something the poe faced liberals hate to see expressed.

Things do get very daft in the final third of the film, the 'outlaws' get embroiled in a 'Heat' style gun fight when previously they couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag, but the whole movie has an earthy gritty feel and the cast is a pretty good one, Bob Hoskins as a Police 'grass', a very subdued Danny Dyer and the always reliable Sean Bean.

*****