Fantastic!

Brilliant and touching

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.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Ten Dead Men is one of 2 low budget films I watched recently.The other was Jack Says.The 2 have quite a bit in common- they start with someone being tortured by gangsters, girlfriend is murdered,revenge etc.Whereas Jack Says tries to be cleverer, 10DM just charges in like a Bull in a China Shop and uses the plot as an excuse to shoehorn some brutal fight scenes into the story.Brendan Carr is the lead..playing a proper psycho he is believable and ( unlike Jack in Jack Says) quite intimidating.All the heavies in this film seem more than capable of damaging someone.We only see his girlfriend briefly but she seems very sweet..just the type to take him out of his criminal life.Production values are rubbish..at times this looks like it was filmed on a mobile phone.There is little dialogue and the story is driven forward by a narrator..Pinhead from Hellraiser.( He must need the money badly). He is the wrong choice to play the voice over of the lead character....he is far too posh.This is not a great film by any means but it is the sort of thing you might enjoy with a few beers

I could only get about 3 minutes into this video. Most of the reason for this is because it is, in fact, a video and not a film. This is an important distinguishing feature, because the use of a video camera here has made the piece look amateurish despite some decent camera work and far above average editing. Everything is there to make this a mediocre film... except the film. A better camera and an actual professional sound crew would have made this video something worthy of the video rental vending machine I got it from. Unless you are a film student and want to view this from the point of view of a director/ editor, then I strongly recommend that you avoid spending any money on this at all.

I really enjoyed this film! It's obviously on the lower end of the budget spectrum, but the filmmakers really made what they had work for them. It was extremely violent, which in my eyes is a good thing, considering that's pretty much the genre, and it was edited very well. There were times when some of the sound editing might have been tightened up a tad, but all in all, this was an excellent "anti-hero takes revenge on even worse people" kind of film. I suppose I should mention that the script was way above average for this type of film, but I might be biased. Chris Regan is a friend, after all! But good going Chris!!! And I DID notice that brother Peter worked on the extras. Good show Pete! The whole thing was a perfect entertainment for me while my wife was out of town! Definitely keep an eye on all of the people involved here. This won't be the last we'll be hearing from them.

I'm not going to say this is the greatest film in the world, but it is a great little film. When I spent a hot summer Sunday this year in Swindon's Art Centre attending the inaugural Phantasmagoria film festival, I was pleasantly surprised by Ten Dead Men. I'll be honest - I was attending for the horror/thriller films like Dead Wood and Summer Scars and wasn't really in the mood for a low budget UK action film, but I'm glad I stayed and watched it. The movie takes the well trodden revenge story and puts a very British stamp on it. Well written and directed with a (mostly) great cast - hey, it's even got Lee from Steps in it! Sure, the movie does rely on some clichés, but most action films do anyway. I'd recommend it to fans of gritty British gangster films with an action twist.