One of my all time favorites.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

From the very early scenes it is obvious that this is going to turn into a "blag gone wrong" movie.One smart criminal has recruited a "gang" of sub-normal associates. When he goes to pick up the driver we are confronted by a scene in which the drivers daughter turns up after an "all-nighter" with her policeman boyfriend. Policeman boyfriend !!!! Yeah, there's the standard father-daughter row, and from there it starts to go downhill rapidly. The dullest of the group is allotted the task of grabbing the "large" notes and proceeds to fail at this simple task, the absolute limit of 4 minutes in the target blows out through idiocy. And on and on and on .... every scene more unbelievable than the preceding one.Of course there's the obligatory "love-interest" .... the woman keeps bobbing up every ten minutes or so, nothing to do with the plot, nothing to do with anything except our mastermind's early life which is totally irrelevant. All she does is to divert from the rapidly unraveling thread of the film, but it does give you time to go and get a cup of coffee.Then the various shootouts start. Somehow the film maker got London confused with Dodge City. We have a street gunfight with the (unarmed) British police and a gunfight in a police station.Deary me. What a sad mish-mash of a movie. Unbelievable.

What a big dissapointment this movie was.... First of all I liked all the actors : Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Gerry Conlon and it was definitely interesting to see Blursinger Damon Albarn as actor too and secondly I normally like British movies a lot... But everything is destroyed by director Antonio Bird (famous for "Priest") as this scenario is suffocating... All you get are nice dialogues but it's just like some scenes that are thrown into one movie and due to this you never feel any affection with the play, what you see is what you get but normally I wanna identify myself with the actors when I see British movies, this was more like "Heat" with a very low budget.

"Face" is a gritty, bloody, visceral tale of a motley crew of professional robbers led by Carlyle and what happens when someone systematically steals their ill gotten gains. Carlyle and others deliver powerful performances in this drab, bleak action/drama about treachery, larceny, retribution, and the disintegration of a gang of thieves. Save a few plot holes, "Face" manages solid entertainment for those who can overlook the fact that the protagonist/hero is a thief and a killer.

"Face" was not a bad movie. The story was involving and the caper was exciting but the setting was pretty grim and the movie was rather violent. The robbers were audacious and the plot took some unexpected, entertaining twists. It seems that English movies, if not portraying the upper classes, portray a depressive squalor. It all seems so wet and dirty and everyone chain smokes. Maybe American movies portray our not-upper classes as louts wearing black leather and stubble also. The tough guy look of American movies has become cliched. Wouldn't you like to see a crime movie where the bad guy is not walking around dressed as "the bad guy". Why not a neon arrow pointing him out. If you were a bad guy would you wear the required black leather coat, not shave and smoke incessantly. There is a concept of being inconspicuous. Maybe if you contrast that to the good guy wearing a $4000 suit and driving a $50K car while working a $30K police job it doesn't seem so bad. I guess a bit of fantasy is required to enjoy this drivel.