Too many fans seem to be blown away

Please don't spend money on this.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Saw this in the DVD shop & the cover was full of review & 4stars by news of world etc, I'm sure these are just paid off to give something a good review.. The film was week boring pointless & i found myself drifting off constantly. the storyline is nothing new but that's not the problem, the problem is nothings been done with it to make it entertaining.. The guys don't really ever get any fight in them your jusy say watching them be lame for nearly all the film not wanting to do what it days in the description about taking justice into their own hands. It just dosny happen, the ending was weak & made no sense at all just a dumb movie..

Britain is falling down into disregard. Violence and crime have taken over and even the powers to be are corrupt. That is the United Kingdom of today. At least according to the scriptwriter. Danny Bryant (Sean Bean) returns unwanted and uncared for from the nightmare of war. An Afgan veteran he has left duty and become a civilian only to find out that his only mainstay in life - his wife - has found comfort in the arms of another man. Abandoned by his family and his country he enters the road of revenge with his focus firmly set on the criminal underbelly of the city. By chance he finds a group of like-minded individuals, who however unlike him lack the killer instinct and abilities to fight back. Gene Dekker (Danny Dyer) is a wimp unable to protect himself or his fiancée and although nothing really bad has ever happened to him his life is controlled by fear. Sandy Mardell (Rupert Friend) was beaten up and left for dead by a group of young underage thugs only to survive with his face disfigured. Simon Hillier (Sean Harris) is just... well... mental. Prosecutor Cedric Munroe (Lennie James) is the heaviest afflicted member of the party - his wife and unborn baby are killed by members of the Manning crime syndicate.Vengeance quickly turns out to be tougher than expected, as the members of the Outlaws must cross barrier after barrier. It's not simple for a honest citizen to suddenly start whacking thugs or even worse killing them. Not all of them are able to commit and albeit they initially know the aim of their fight morality gets in the way of their justice.Many people here find this movie unrealistic and the actions of characters idiotic. I however find it to be extremely realistic - the Outlaws are far from ideal and even their self-proclaimed leader Danny is prone to dire mistakes. There is no mastermind behind the plan, so naturally chance and planning coincide. The unexpected happens and everything goes awry. The fighting spree of the Outlaws is short-lived and although they have their five minutes of fame it ends rather quickly and abruptly.My main problem with the movie is the lack of character build. Only two characters - Danny and Gene - get decent focus, whilst the character which should be key to story - Cedric - is underused. The plot stays plausible, but you have no real idea of what actually guides our heroes to do what they do. I could see a real classic revenge movie come out of this one, but instead I'm not sure what the director's real intent was as we end up in an unsatisfying finale undercut with the poor build-up of characters. In the end I have no real idea as to what the movie was about - maybe it was just supposed to be a gratuitous action flick? In the end a shame, because the potential in this movie was very close to the surface.

Nick Love's previous films The Football Factory and The Business appealed to the 'Nuts' and 'Zoo'-reading male in their first flush of testosterone. Yet for all its flashes of brutalism, Outlaw feels defanged and debooted, reflecting Love's drift into middle-age, with middle-class concerns. As he says of the film, "It could have had the lads treatment (but) I'm getting older. I think it's made in a more mature way." And with age, comes, well, not so much maturity, responsibility, or experience, as fear. Having titillated his audience with terrace thuggery and dispatches from the Costa Del Crime, Love appears concerned that his audience may have taken his flirtation with criminality seriously. What to do? Well, there's only one sort of language these horrible hoodies understand. Beat them up! That's the position former paratrooper Danny Bryant (Bean) adopts on returning from a tour of Iraq, emotionally wounded by a war nobody wanted and appalled by the state of the country he left behind. "It's almost worse here" he exclaims. "They go around wrecking lives and when they get caught they get a slap on the wrist." Determined to do something about it, he contacts some like-minded, emasculated souls, two of whom flank Bean on the movie poster in some representation of the Three Ages of Geezerdom. Danny Dyer's Gene has been previously humiliated with a road rage kicking in front of his bride-to-be; Lennie James's weedy barrister Cedric is under pressure from henchmen to drop a case against a drug baron; and Rupert Friend's traumatised Cambridge student Sandy has seen his attackers released from prison before he's fully recovered from his injuries.Bringing up the rear is creepy security guard Simon (Harris, in Gareth from 'The Office' mode) and Walter (Hoskins), an embittered, formerly straight-arrow copper, whose inside knowledge of CCTV cameras will prove invaluable for what they're about to do.Simply, as explained in a prolonged rant that resembles a 'Daily Mail' editorial penned by Death Wish's Paul Kersey, they want to get rid of "the paedophiles, the scum, the dealers, the prostitutes." Far from bringing down new Labour (or those poor, exploited prostitutes), the newly-trained dirty half-dozen mostly focus their attention on dispatching the drug baron's incompetent henchmen; a shame, as it would be fascinating to see how far they'd go. Viagra spammers? People who don't say 'thank you' when you hold the door open for them? They get chased by the corrupt police, feted by the media, and implode through in-fighting (always a risk, especially when your security guard turns out to be a neo-Nazi).Hardly original, Outlaw treads in the booted footprints of previous veteran-turned-vigilante movies (an cultural knock-on of messy conflicts like Vietnam, Northern Ireland and Iraq), from Taxi Driver to The Exterminator, For Queen And Country and Dead Man's Shoes. It also owes a largish debt to De Palma's The Untouchables, particularly where Hoskins' character is concerned.Love still hasn't managed to shrug off Guy Ritchie's influence: the over and under-cranked photography; the self-consciously laddish dialogue. And from Love, who deals in the cinema of the pre-emptive strike, it's also unusually leaden; a eulogy looking for a war. Still, Dyer (Love's working-class alter-ego and muse) remains a very watchable, if one-note performer; and there is, at least, an occasional wry humour here: "I'm going to the toilet - try not to kill anyone while I'm away." Attempting to draw big thematic parallels between Britain's internal and external affairs, between aggressive foreign policy and an aggressive homegrown underclass, Outlaw actually reveals rather more about the concerns of nervous filmmakers, caught between a desire to please their core audience and an increasing unwillingness to return their phone calls.

Recap: A few honest men that feel betrayed by society form a loose group that is out for revenge. Fed information by a disgruntled old police officer that is fed up with corrupt officers that is promoted before him their target becomes those criminals that the has escaped too easy from the law. Their prime target is Manning, a known crime lord. The men is led by an old army ranger, Bryant, but the rest is ordinary men. Dekker and Mardell wants revenge from beatings, Munroe wants revenge after two hit men murdered his pregnant wife, and Hillier is just longing for violence. The brutal ways of the group tear at them and soon they find themselves under attack, both from within, from Manning and from the police.Comments: A decent action movie with a little different set up. It is pretty brutal and honest and doesn't use any typical action movie tricks. There is no extra explosions or glorified violence. Instead it tries to show the ugly truth. So, unlike other action movies, the action scenes is nothing you really enjoy, and I suppose you are not supposed to.What is interesting is that there is really no difference in the criminals hits and Bryant's group's revenge. Both play equally dirty and their violence is equally summarily and brutally distributed. And that may be the movies biggest trouble. As realistic that may be, and even if that might be director Love's intention to show that violence is violence irrespective of the perpetrators intentions, this might be the biggest fault. Because I had big problems to feel any connection or any sympathy for or with any of the characters. I certainly didn't feel for the criminals but couldn't find any reason to feel for or root for the avengers either. There was just two groups that fought it out between them and the one wasn't better than the other.And when there is no real interest in any of the characters there is hard to get that real interest in the movie. I didn't find it anyway. It's a good idea but might have been done better if done differently. Or it is a message that need to be shown in a world that feels like it grows increasingly violent world, but it wasn't that funny to watch.5/10