Shooters (2002)
Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to his South London home and visits his old colleague J, in hope of obtaining his share of the proceeds from the job that landed him inside, J soon talks him into getting involved in one last scam.
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Highly Overrated But Still Good
An Exercise In Nonsense
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Blistering performances.
I never saw Guy Ritchie's "Lock..." , but if it's anything like this loser, I pity it. I watched this wishing I could fast forward it. It was very disjointed and stark. I watched it for Gerard Butler, who evidently did a small part in it to help his friends, the other actors, out. He plays a psychotic hottie...who uses violence as a sadistic baton. we see him make a deal in a small segment, and then we see him in a room with a woman. He has on a towel..and that alone would make me want to watch more. (I'm shallow when it comes to Butler)He hits people with baseball bats, smothers them nearly to death with a plastic bag, kisses them on the cheek and tries to make friendly, gets shot at, shoots at, and eventually is killed outside in his towel. Nice leg shots, however. The leads are forgettable..and one ends up dead. It's seedy and dark...but the Glaswegian brogue is beyond me, and there are no subtitles. So..if you like rather unglued jigsaw pieces of movies with violence, you might like this; or if you enjoy anything Gerard Butler, you'll enjoy his towel only as a preview of his Spartan loincloth in "300." I bought the DVD...just for Gerard...I fast forward it to Butler's parts and then store it away.
OK, I admit: I am a fan girl. I will watch any movie with Ioan Gruffodd and/or Gerard Butler in it, even if it is a dark, low budget, depressing indie flick.So when I sat down to watch this, I solely intended to ogle my two boys and leave the rest of the movie to the elitist film critics.But the end of it, I was transfixed by the reality of it all. Unlike so many American films, there are no heroes with chiseled jaws who are impenetrable to bullets. Everyone is equally flawed, and everyone is equally endangered.I know, I'm a stupid American fan girl, and as such, not a reliable source, but it ranks on my top list films overall. Not just Brit films.Lock Stock isn't close.
I seem to be submersing myself on British films lately....This was transparent from the start but it held my attention. I wanted to wait it out until the end to see how these characters prevailed or failed. Good action sequences....as action goes. As an American I am always looking for life in the UK. But I can't really compare gang war from one country to the other.Thankfully I am not fluent in either. I have to say that I have been watching Ioan Gruffudd for some time now and that was my motivation for seeing this film, along with his flatmate Mathew Ryhs. Quite nice to look at even for brief moments. Why do I have to submit 10 lines? I am not a literary agent.... ohcheap1
I think this movie is good but, it is kinda crappy at the same time. Perhaps it is the low budgets that makes the "finish" of the movie seem cheap. The actors are great, but the story never reaches higher than average. But the ride is still enjoyable to a degree. See it if u like english movies, like snatch and lock, stock ...