Essex Boys Retribution (2013)

You won't be disappointed!

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Excellent, a Must See

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

When buying online from - er - a certain large online retailer, I often first view the bad product reviews. The content of that 1 star review gives me a chance to judge the relevance of the comment.It's often a similar story with IMDb. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but shouldn't that opinion be reinforced by some knowledge of the subject?Judge then yourselves, reviews with phrases such as "I watched 10 minutes of this". Would anyone take a review of The Godfather or Shawshank Redemption seriously if the reviewer had only seen the wedding scene up to Johnny's arrival, or Andy's arrival at the jail? If you didn't watch, your views are irrelevant.Anyway, I did watch all of EBR, and yes, it wasn't an epic movie, but the acting of the leads was good, and the story was OK. Billy Murray was as you'd expect (perhaps Alan Ford was unavailable).

Wow, i am in shock at how bad this movie is, the original Essex Boys movie was quite good and i was looking forward to watching this follow-up. I do not often write reviews on IMDb but i found this movie so horrendous, that i just have to warn people, this movie is a joke.The 4 main characters are supposed to be gangsters, but they are skinny, short, and barely older than teenagers. Anyway, these 4 poorly chosen actors are supposed to be playing the parts of underworld gangsters, so they have to act aggressive and intimidating, and that's where the problems start, none of them are scary, none of them can act, and when they start shouting and acting hard, you just don't believe them. If you was out in a club, pub, or anywhere, and you heard one of these characters shouting there head off and trying to act tough, everyone would point at them and LAUGH.So to sum it all up, if your looking for a good gangster movie, this is not it, you would be better off watching Casino or Goodfellas, again.

I was expecting a follow on from Essex Boys or Bonded by Blood but was intrigued to see Bill Murrey telling a story about the new young breed of gangsters. The young lads seemed arrogant and loud, no respect and was surprised that being drug dealers,they had no "muscle" to back them up when it got on top. The acting was a bit wooden after the earlier excitement of the Bank robbery. I wanted more action from their opposition and couldn't believe the copper was so bent? As the film progressed i actually wanted them to die. Good twist in the end but i think i will stick with Rise of the Footsoldier as my favourite gangster/ Hooligan film.

My thoughts before i watched this was how much more can they add to the film on the history on the Essex boys films as there is quite a few Essex boys movies out of different peoples eyes of views but remembering these are all based on true events not actual facts but this film has a really good story line all the actors was great and too see good actors all in one film is just great. The film is full of gritty hard core manic ness an the ending took me by shock. With the little twist at the end I'm a big fan of Paul tanter films also a big fan of Simon Phillips all Paul tanters projects never disappoint me all have a good story lines. I don't know why people moan its just a movie for people viewing with out films like this people wouldn't get to watch top notch movies well done to all cast and crew. Looking forward to watching many more films written by Paul tanter.