Rise of the Footsoldier
by Julian Gilbey
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Actor: Craig Fairbrass, Ricci Harnett, Terry StoneDirector: Julian Gilbey
Brand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-12-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Product features:
- DVD Details: Actors: Ricci Harnett, Terry Stone, Craig Fairbrass
- Directors: Julian Gilbey
- Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1; Number of discs: 1; Studio: Lions Gate
- DVD Release Date: December 2, 2008; Run Time: 119 minutes
DVD Reviews of Rise of the Footsoldier
DVD Review: Footsoldier is quick to fall as fast as it rises
Summary: 3 Stars
Rise of the Footsoldier was a recomended film to see and so I went ahead and decided to give it a go at watching. This is your basic biographical tale of the path of violence the main character decided to take, and it is a dark downward spiral of someone who's greed and need for dishing out pain to those in the underworld of England.
There is nothing to like about the characters,they aren't depicted as "good folk" and rightly so. Basically (in his younger days) he was a dousche bag and his choice of friends weren't much different than he was. He was a drug user and a heavy anabolic steroid user and to top things off,left little to his already unstable personality and temperment.
Rise of the Footsolder makes no apologies in its telling of the life of a self proclaimed "hooligan" and later as a full flegged gangster.I liked the true,raw depiction of events and characters (be it based on some factual events).You don't like the chasracters, and as the film continues you like them less.There is really no one to care or root for in this story, just to watch as a spectator at a soccer match to see who the last man standing is at the end.
While I knew what it was I was getting myself into whatching Rise of the Footsoldier, it lacked some originality in the way the screenplay ans story telling went.It wasn't boring, but much of the story telling is a carbon copy of Guy Ritchie and Martin Scorse films in both the telling and graphic violence.Nothing new or fresh here.
I think these were very difficult parts for any actor to portray,an indiviudual who lives for violence and is abusive in nature while feeding his own addictions to both drugs and power. The other "slight" problem I had was the constant swearing from begining to end.
I suppose that kind of dialog was to make it that much more autehtic and real,but I grew tired of everyone throwing the words S^!@?&!, f&%^@#% and c&%!#% around constantly.I spent some time in the UK and not one person I new over there (including family) cursed as much as these individuals did.
Lastly were the accents,but this is really more on me. The slang and heavy Essex accents garbled together with shouting and arguing sounds like someone taking with a mouthfull of food to me. I was considering the use of the "closed caption" function to follow some of the conversations as occasionally I was lost with what they were specifically talking about.
All in all, what you have here is a stylized biographgy of one man's experience as a brawler,to gangster and drug dealer. How much "legend" he is I don't know as I am unfamiliar with the story, and underworld culture of the UK. Its not too different than anywhere else, so aside from a gang land assasination there are the similarities there.
It's not a "perfect film" and since it copied so much from Guy Ritchie and heavily from Martin Scorse and other gangster films.This isn't Essex Boys, Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Guns, and is a far cry from Scoses's masterpiece Goodfellas,although it trys hard to be.In attempting to copycat those films in some way,it hurt this film's potential to stand on its own in my opinion.It is still watchable if you can get past the disturbing bits and unwanten cruelty and violence,but that is the life of a gangster,no apologies.
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