Despite some really good performances especially from Bettany, this is a pretty terrible movie...

| Apr 29, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 4, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2004

A stylish, confused and insanely violent gangster drama from a first-time Brit director.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 16, 2003

...cool shots do not a riveting film make.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 1, 2003

. . .captures the kinetic quality of the 60s with jump-action pacing, groovy camera angles and the occasional split screen treatment that never crosses the line into camp.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2003

It certainly feels unique, and sets itself apart from most American gangster films in its stark refusal to paint the lead gangster as likable or indeed anything other than the vicious socio-psychopath he is.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

It's a handsomely ugly affair, well dressed enough to make a few friends, but tough enough to make just as many enemies.

| Dec 2, 2002

McGuigan has assembled a stellar all-British cast in which there are no weak links.

| Oct 21, 2002

Malcolm McDowell is cool. Paul Bettany is cool. Paul Bettany playing Malcolm McDowell? Cool.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 2002

Not as well-written as Sexy Beast, not as gloriously flippant as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but stylish and moody and exceptionally well-acted.

Full Review | Sep 27, 2002

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 18, 2002

If you can stomach the rough content, it's worth checking out for the performances alone.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10 | Sep 13, 2002

Paul Bettany is good at being the ultra-violent gangster wannabe, but the movie is certainly not number 1.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 13, 2002

Director Paul McGuigan and cast infuse the proceedings with a strong dose of psychotic gusto and visual flare.

| Original Score: B | Sep 12, 2002

A prolonged extrusion of psychopathic pulp.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 6, 2002

Glizty but formulaic and silly...Cagney's 'top of the world' has been replaced by the bottom of the barrel.

| Original Score: D | Aug 26, 2002

A film divided into past and present sections that are ridiculously disparate.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 23, 2002