From my favorite movies..

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Easily one of the best films I've ever seen. Can't say that I enjoyed it, as it's so real it's almost like watching a documentary. Tragic that the contents of this movie are the sad facts of life as experienced daily by the underclass in the UK. Couldn't take my eyes of it...

Im originally from London and spent many a year on estates getting into all sorts.As someone else rightly said on here, there's good and bad and there's a lighter side to the dark side, in fact its mainly middle ground with episodes of badness and episodes of coming together, but films have to take a story and this story was to depict the dark-side..like it or not.It does this in such an astoundingly clever way that it cannot fail in delivering a very disturbing story - one that will shock all that watch it. The film mixes gritty poetic lyrics with the masterful sound of PlanB which sets the tone for the dark story. The characters are so strong in this film and heightened with the occasional lyrical back story to really help show some history it drags you (weather you want to or not) smack bang into the center of the action.A particular favorite of mine was Kirby. This guy and the story around him is basically the beating heart of the tale. Kirby seemed to be on route to something far more sinister ...had he actually managed to get that far. The camera work and post production are top class with some really nice 'cut aways' that all contribute to set the scene and mix tones.Obviously there are many visually harrowing scenes so don't watch this movie if you are expecting an episode of east-enders. One of my favorite UK gangster/drug/life drama movies of all time..and I don't say that lightly. Maximum respect to the actors and of course the Director, Story writer, production and crew.

I didn't have high hope's for this film after the first 5 minute's, yet I persevered and boy am I glad that I did. The character's are so believable they could be people you know, I don't want to give too much away, the film's funny when it want's to be and sad when it need's to be, I found it a most enjoyable, poignant film and I do believe that it's British made as well, well done the boy's. To give you a slight insight into what it's about, it's the not too pleasant seedier side of life, centring around a likable rogue and his friend's, acquaintance's and foe's, in a typical inner city, I think it's one of the borough's of London, I found it to be quite moving really, again well done.

David Cameron was born in London yet I doubt very much he has witnessed a social London manor such as Ben Drew's depiction of this brilliant portrayal of the inner London of today.Teenage girls & boys, young men & women, a new-age society that only knows gang-culture, turf war, drug dependency, gun violence, prostitution, fear and a one-way ticket to the abyss.The movie world makes me smile regarding what is considered a good, or a bad film. Politics is always under the surface, take for example, best picture of 2013 - Argo - it's loaded with inaccuracies and is as dull as mud. But, it is a stars & stripes flag waver for the shallow minded to remember who the enemy is.Ill Manors makes you think, on a British standpoint - who exactly are the wrong-doers and why are they doing it.Cameron is allowing Britain to sink deeper than the Titanic, and Ill Manors will reveal that lifeboats in inner city societies are also in short supply.8/10