thescouseassassin93

Sometimes you stumble across an independent film that's low budget and it turns out to be a hidden gem...Sonny Capone is not one of those times! To say this 'movie' is shockingly bad would be a colossal understatement.

When I say it's low budget, if this 'film' cost 20 euros to make, someone should be looking for 18.50 change! A bunch of teenagers in drama school could have done a better job.

There are absolutely no redeeming features to this cinematic joke, acting, directing, storyline, script, props, location...nothing.

I'm not totally convinced it's an actual movie, more like someone is playing an April fools joke on us all.

Good underrated movie, one for the thinkers and purists, Hollywood it is not, and it's so much better for that. The dark cinematography really works to portray the underlying wickedness that eventually comes to the fore. There are a couple of story lines that don't really seem to go anywhere, but that's a minor distraction.

It's a dark and brooding film which asks a lot of moral questions, it's complex in it's structure and many viewers will be confused by timeline regularly jumping backwards. You're also pretty much left to figure out the ending for yourself, don't miss any of the movie or it won't make sense.

There's some decent acting, Kathrine Narducci is of course excellent as...well...Kathrine Narducci. John Faughnan puts a good effort in too.

I can't believe this excellent film has the lowly rank of 7/10! But there again maybe I can. You see we have been drip fed the Hollywood 'spy' movies, the Bourne franchise, the Mission Impossible franchise, the glitz and glam, the car chases, the fight sequences, the script and dialogue a 10 year old could decipher, everything that Americans believe makes them great but intelligent people who still have a modicum of brain power cringe at!

Anyone who rates this film down because they couldn't follow it is far too moronic to even watch it, let alone review it. This is a great film, no bells or whistles, just a good old British spy flick, it captures the dark intimate world of Cold War espionage, double agents, never trusting anyone fully, always checking your front door before entering, being suspicious of everyone you see or what they're doing. More Ipcress File than Jason Bourne.

If you like a good spy thriller with a perfectly easy to follow storyline, some of the best British actors excelling in their roles, watch this movie.

I didn't expect too much from this movie, maybe it could be a typical American action film, bit of shooting, shouting, a modicum of intrigue, the sort of thing you pop on when you're not really concentrating too much. But oh boy what a stinker this is, someone with only two functioning brain cells in their head will still find this movie stupid!

Shockingly bad acting, including Wahlberg, who seems to have settled for a Liam Neeson type of career, i.e. Churning out awful repetitive films so he can amass a fortune that could settle most 3rd world nations national debt. Ronda Rousey, bless her cotton socks, whoever told her she could act needs deep psychological therapy.

So a bad script, badly acted, and if that weren't bad enough we even have Indonesia's version of Jackie Chan...Jakarta Chan, complete with slow mo's of his fighting wizardry (Shame Ronda didn't get a few tips from him before her last fight!) !!!

An interesting film, based on a novel whose story is set in the 90's, yet Edward Norton rewrote it to give it that post war 50's feel, the jazz age, Harlem and guys wearing pork pie hats.

It's owes much to the Film Noir genre without being too dark, think neo film noir crossed with Road to Perdition and a touch of Mike Hammer tossed in.

The original book uses modern day gangsters as the main protagonists but Norton wrote the screenplay around the corruption of the corporate world instead, the Tammany Hall era, with, dare I say it, a nod to the current crop of mega billionaire corporate bosses, think Trump, Rockefellers, Rothchild, Gates, Clinton, Bush and the Royal Family, the 'illuminated ones', who actually are above the law. In fact Baldwin gives Norton a lecture about power being omnipotent, much like the quote Trump was caught saying at a party once!

I enjoyed this film, it's no classic, but as a social issue movie it works very well.

I know the Darndale estate from back in the day, and I've recently read about it in a few books, mainly crime and drugs true stories. I do know that as recently as the early 2000's the police (Garda) would not enter the estate after dark! I would happily say the movie accurately portrays the inner city life of the residents and the gang culture that has gripped Dublin in this new century.

Definitely worth a watch if, like me, you don't go in for the Hollywood 'blockbuster' style of movie, but prefer the grittier reality based indictment of the world we currently live in!

What can I say, a pretty poor film that I only give 6* to, yet I sat and watched it right through without taking my eyes off the screen!

And therein lies the problem with this movie, it's somehow an utterly entertaining jape but with acting that would make a sycamore tree look animated, a ludicrous storyline and fight scenes straight out of Jackie Chan's 101 ways to film an outrageous Hollywood set-to!

In summary then, I'd say order a pizza, get some cold brewskies out of the fridge, and sit back and enjoy an evening watching a movie you'll only ever watch once but will not regret it one bit!

Unfortunately there is now a template.in place for British gangster movies, you pick your star from a half dozen cockney sounding actors, film it around London, everyone is called a cunt, a grass or old bill.

Villain is a standard crime flick, the storyline heavily based on the much superior Carlito's Way. Its not a bad film, more of a time filler than a blockbuster.

I am so disappointed with the final season, and here in the UK as I write we're only four episode's in. It really is utter rubbish, totally unrealistic in pretty much every way. I won't go into detail yet as it's still being aired but suffice to say Walt Disney couldn't have done a worse job of producing this nonsense. What a shame a great series has to be ruined right at the end of its run.

I'll start off by saying I'm not a Sandler fan, but his performance in Uncut Gems was fantastic as a fast talking, quick thinking, jewellery dealer and degenerate gambler. The pace of the movie is chaotic, it's loud, it's 200 mph. It does keep you guessing up to a point, but that's where I started to feel short changed.

We meet a lot of characters throughout the film, we start to engage with them, figure out their modus operandi, but that's as far as it goes...people you think are going to be crucial to the plot drift away. I was constantly looking for a twist, a reason for some of the characters and the possible plot lines, but in reality they all amount to pretty much nothing, so much so I do wonder if the movie was written with different endings and only decided upon near the end of filming.

All in all I'm pleased I watched it but it left me feeling cheated and I would never consider watching it again.

Well what can I say, a complete waste of two hours?, yep. One of the worst movies ever?, yep. Is the lowest possible rating of 1 more than it deserves?, yep.

Shockingly bad acting by, well, everyone, not one decent performance. The script must have been written by a 12 year old. Gratuitous half naked women sprawled all over the place, absolutely ridiculous action, fight, shooting scenes, a plot from an 80's Bond film, and cheesy one liners all make this movie one of the most forgettable flicks ever!

What can I say...total and utter load of rubbish. Bad story, bad script, bad acting. Even with Alan Ford drafted in to play the character as he did in Snatch (Brick Top) it still couldn't be saved. Lots of faces from other Brit Gangster movies but you get the impression they showed up for an hour, filmed their scenes, got paid and pissed off home in time for Eastenders.

Plot lines are either too predictable or they are too implausible to work. The female love interest has as much charisma as a mattress, the two goons searching for the lead character are like Bill and Ben, one is a Welsh hitman who goes by the name of 'The Viper'....because British hitmen always have names that sound like characters in X Men!!!

Do not waste your time people, 5 reviews in 4 years really does sum this movie up.

Easily one of the worst films I've ever seen. An international arms deal set up in a rat infested disused warehouse, with a group of people who seem to have little or no connections at all, except those that are vaguely hinted at. The accents I'm afraid were shocking, even Sharlto Copley's and he actually is South African! Whatever the rifles were they certainly weren't AR-14's, more like modern Ruger Mini-14's. And where to start on the hour long shoot out, the seemingly endless supply of ammunition each shooter was able to find, the multitude of hits each person took with no one actually dying till near the end. By my reasoning there were at least four trained marksmen in the building yet not one could hit a barn door at six paces. An utterly preposterous movie and a waste of 91 minutes of my life which sadly I can't get back.

I must say I was very sceptical about this movie as I'd never heard of it before, so seeing it was on TV I decided to look it up on here. A very low rating and a dubious start to the film did not fill me with confidence.

However the more I watched the more enthralled I became. From early on you get the impression there is more to the story than meets the eye, and indeed there are numerous sub plots, this is not a movie to watch casually.

The various twists and turns for the most part come totally out of the blue, but slowly combine to explain each other gradually, pulling you further in till the final ending which I must admit came as a total surprise to me...and ultimately left me with a big smile on my face and a movie that I fully enjoyed.

I was quite into this movie for the first 50 minutes. OK I found Jamie Foxx a bit hard to believe as a high ranking FBI agent but the subject matter made up for that. As others mentioned I too was distracted by the camera work at times, mainly when it was just two people talking, not so important in the action scenes. And therein lies the rub for me, the final big shoot out. Pure Hollywood yet again, 4 Americans and one Saudi enter the fray...guess who gets killed! Now I'm sure the FBI are well trained but are we really to believe a forensic examiner, an intelligence analyst, a bomb technician and a Special Agent are so adept at counter guerrilla warfare, dodging RPG rounds, thousands of rounds of incoming bullets from above and ground level? All this plus killing every bad guy in the area before storming a building to exact a rescue operation and catch the bad guys...where astonishingly no guards were posted on the staircase or outside the flats where they were holed up! Seriously it was like watching a cross between Rambo and Special Ops on steroids...completely ruined the whole film for me I'm afraid.

Only 1 star as there is no zero. Why oh why is this even on a food channel, nothing to do with food, completely fake, terrible acting, set up situations, a million camera angles from a few supposedly secret cameras!!! Even a quick google will tell you how fake it is, and as unbelievable as it is so far 4 of the 19 reviews have been positive...so I guess that explains why they get away with such a blatantly bad show. This show and its brethren Restaurant Stakeout have no place on a channel that is supposed to be about food. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that a food channel is going to be watched by serious foodies who like to see different recipes and cuisines being prepared and tasted, not this pap!!!

Well I grew up with the early Planet of the Ape movies, which were OK at the time. However times moved on and now they feel very dated now so it took me a while to buy back into the franchise. Well a few weeks ago Rise of...was on TV so I gave it a watch. Guess what, I ended up really enjoying it. I like the dark undertones that have been added, bit like the Batman franchise. So I was ready to see this latest one and absolutely loved it. Great special effects again, and Andy Serkis as Caesar and Toby Kebbell as Koba are just brilliant. Gary Oldmans character is a bit vague, seems quite tame at first but completely changes later on. I foresee at least a couple more films in the future. If you like the genre you'll love this film.