Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Certain people like to stand outside McDonalds rather than go to school that's how!Again these two appear in a derivative quick to forget bargain bin British gangster movie with all the cock-er-ney geezer charm of Guy Ritchies Bowel movements, hell they even throw in the lesser supporting cast of Snatch, a far far superior movie. Gangster Rapper 50p must have had a spare 10 minutes while in London during a promo tour because he's a barely written cameo (who could have livened the film up in a beefier role) and the two strongest actors in the movie, Brenda Blethyn and Phil Davis just seem lost in their own embarrassment wondering what there agents where playing at. The involvement of English Premiership footballers as executive producers would suggest the film was a plaything and an outlet for their rather substantial weekly wage and it's their money that probably paid for the clearance of an actually rather good soundtrack.Leave this movie well alone unless you like tucking socks into trackie bottoms, listen to music on buses using a mobile and have many friends with Asbo's and trophy dogs, for the rest of us there's a bit of damp paint on the wall over there, it'll be dry soon.3/10 for the soundtrack alone

I wasn't expecting great things from this movie and I wasn't disappointed. The plot is very two-dimensional but done reasonably well, the film is well-paced and directed competently with a fair bit going on in its 90-ish minute runtime. It's never going to trouble the Academy but it pretty much does what it says on the tin as a run-of-the-mill UK gangster flick.The performances leave a little bit to be desired, however. Danny Dyer, who now seems hopelessly typecast, really phones in his performance and it would be nice to see him given a role which might stretch him. If he keeps taking roles like this one, though, it ain't going to happen. Here Dyer is reunited with his co-star from 'The Business' (ten times the film that 'Dead Man Running' is, by the way) Tamer Hassan. Hassan, again, means well but again he's given very little to work with. It's a shame as both he and Dyer have, I feel, more to offer than this formulaic 'good-guys-gone-a-little-bad' buddy-buddy nonsense.The chief baddie is 'played' by Curtis 'fifty pence' Jackson and it's not good, people. I'm not a fan of his music but he undeniably has talent, just not on the boards. His performance is borderline embarrassing but thankfully he doesn't take up much screen time.Not a great movie, not a disaster either. Just average.I did chuckle when I saw the name of footballer Rio Ferdinand in the credits as an 'executive producer' and the Jar-Jar Binks lookalike even gets a dedicated (and very clunky) line in the script. Rio's got his insipid 'Number 5' online magazine going on and now fancies himself as a mover and shaker in the film world but someone really ought to take the big man to one side and quietly explain to him that he is not in any way 'cool', nor will he ever be. Stick to football, Rio, you're quite good at that (recent performances aside).

LOVED this little movie that I caught opening weekend in London. It's surprisingly funny and entertaining. Tamar Hassan is sure to be a big star- he's like a bigger and more handsome Antonio Banderas. Could see this being a breakout role for him like Sexy Beast was for Ray Winston. He's tough but sexy and charming. and Brenda Blethyn is genius. I'm still laughing at some of her lines. The people in my theatre were cheering after her last scene (when you see it you'll know what I'm talking about). Don't miss this little gem. Good pure entertainment.Great soundtrack also.

Danny (rent a London wide boy) Dyer is yet again paid to play the same old tired London wide boy. His fellow type cast actor tammer Hasan is even in here the other London wide boy. so just by having these 2 actors you can pretty much guess the whole movies plot. BUT WAIT there is a twist not just DAN AND TAN we have that great of the hoodlum rap genre mr 50 cents, as he is in the u.k. I think we shall now call him 50p for future reference. This movie even has big football movie connections it was funded by non other than Rio Ferdinand...that's right I said that huge football star Rio ferdanando..or something like that. Any way having explained to you all who's in the movie and who's connected to it with the funding I now come to the review of the said movie. OK here it is 2 wide boys need 24 hours to raise cash quickly or there nasty money lender will do a number on one of them.. With no charm or style this movie chugs a long at a fair pace you can even see some local celebrities from the u.k. in it. What this film lacks in originality it does not make up in dialogue.I could list reels of embarrassing London wide boy chit chat , but it was embarrassing to sit through let alone repeat.This is a cash making machine that teenage boys will rent out to see how British gangsters should operate. 50p is the main pull here and to be honest just like his acting as a yobo singer who talks fast he does bring something to the movie… Can put my finger on it..O yes I remember when he came on screen acting the cool and sophisticated money lender I thought of David bowie… You know when bowies in a movie its going to be dreadful but get great reviews because his fans love him, well that's what I thought of 50p acting. Can't sing cant dance cant act…he will go along way.Its almost blueprint in how not to make a movie about British life. This is yet another movie about the so called underworld of the u.k. made by people who have no idea about the underworld of the u.k. funded b millionaire football players and rent a yob actors this is so artificial it's the most plastic gangster movie yet. If you really want to see a movie and it has to be about gangster in the uk , then I suggest the Manchester movie "a very British gangster"