good back-story, and good acting

Absolutely Fantastic

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

I've decided, for my sins, to watch a few of these low budget gangster films, I'm not proud of this decision but there you go. I've seen Full English Breakfast and last week I watched Geezers, Gangsters and Gamblers. Tonight it was Six Bend Trap a.k.a. Thugs, Mugs and Dogs (doesn't work, should've been Dougs). Now, I heard that The Room is meant to be the best worst movie of all time, but that's because although it's bad it's compellingly so. This is just bad. Bad. Bad. There's meant to be a plot about a greyhound race, some deeds to a bit of concrete where there's some oil or something, a wedding band, blah, blah, blah... It makes no difference what it's about, it's someone's poorly conceived vanity project, there is no sense to it, it's not even mildly amusing or clever. It seems that these low budget films are just retirement homes for actors whose careers have nosedived, this one has the omnipresent Dave Courtney playing a plastic gangster (not a stretch for him really), along with that bloke Paul Usher who used to be in Brookside (and actually this rubbish is far beneath him) and Lisa 'You've Been Framed and Mandy Dingle' Riley. Badly edited. Badly written. Bad soundtrack. Bad acting. Bad dancing. Bad characters. Goes on for hours. Relentless. Boring. Dreadful. I could go on. You know, you're better spending your evening trimming your nose hair or cleaning the oven. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. I'm embarrassed to have watched it.

This is my second attempt at reviewing this film. The first time, it was deleted due to an abuse report, by another user. Not sure why. So, here we go, the toned down version.....It gets 2. Because 1 would seem unnecessarily cruel.What's all this about every rubbish UK gangster film (dwarf with a sword stick, oooh, yes, ALL gangsters have one of them...) now has to be compared with Guy Ritchie. I mean, he was doing Tarantino rip-offs, badly. This is a pretty risible attempt at something cool.Wooden:script acting direction castingAnd what on EARTH was the badly choreographed dancing to the seriously bad song, about half way through? My guess is the one in the middle, dressed in black, was someone's girlfriend, 'cos she SERIOUSLY couldn't dance. Come to think of it, I'm guessing they were ALL friends and partners of the cast and crew, but they looked sad and zombified.Oh, fer Goodness sake, where on EARTH do you start?One and a half million quid? Who on EARTH thought that was an even half way good idea?Not bad enough to be the worst film, far far too bland for that.Oh, I give up. I've said far more than it deserves, already.

There is no excuse for poor films, not with the money put into English film and the directors/producers/scriptwriters we have to be proud of.Its worth highlighting, anything with Dave Courtenay (if spelt wrong...arsed) in is likely to be sh*t, he isn't an actor and either bullies his way into a film or makes it prudent for the film to go ahead, so this is not a good start!! Apparenly he's an actor, errr, no he is a thug that has lost his purpose in life, or maybe has no purpose.The acting is appalling, seriously appalling, and for most parts it is sad, because I can imagine with a bit of input, it could have been a different film with more going for it. As it is, if you manage to watch 20 minutes, well done, its far more than most will!! Give this a miss!

I had no idea i would rate this movie as high as i would, but that does not mean i am wrong at all. An excellent movie that has, unfortunately, more to do with gritty life in the North East of England than it has to do with Greyhound racing (the reason i would watch it). Some might say Courtney is not the best actor int he world, which is undoubtedly true, but he pulls it off in this movie and the cast surrounding him do a good job as well. Do not forget that most of the cast are just locals and have no special "powers" when it comes to acting, but that makes the movie all the more appealing. It comes close to the heart being a former Glaswegian and knowing some about the hard knocks of life.Again, pleasantly surprised and worth a look