Essex Boys (2000)

• Year: 2000
• Released: 14 Jul 2000
• Country: United Kingdom
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191996/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/essex_boys
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Crime, Thriller
• Runtime: 102 min
• Writer: Jeff Pope, Terry Winsor
• Director: Terry Winsor
• Cast: Charlie Creed-Miles, Sean Bean, Gareth Milne
• Keywords: murder, police, drug dealer, essex, range rover,

	6.1/10
	17% – Critics
	62% – Audience

Essex Boys Storyline

The film is based loosely around events in December 1995 that culminated in the murders of three drug dealers in Rettendon, Essex, UK. On 6th December Patrick Tate, Craig Rolfe and Tony Tucker, three drug dealers well known to the police, were lured to Workhouse Lane, Rettendon. There they were blasted to death with a shot gun while sitting in their Range Rover. They had been lured to their deaths on the pretext of a lucrative drugs deal. The three bodies were found the following morning, 7 December 1995.

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Essex Boys Movie Reviews

A good film on several levels.

A good film on several levels. The unflattering comparisons that some critics have made between it and The Usual Suspects are completely misguided as directorial intent and effect in the two pictures are dissimilar. Winsor’s film, it seems to me, brilliantly evokes both the drabness and cruelty of the criminal mindset. It does this partly through the choice of dull, flat Essex landscapes with their coastal marshes, grey motorway links, flash nouveau riche mansions and the tawdry glamour of seafront locations. The characters are both repellent and yet curiously mesmerising. This is not a film in which it is easy to lose interest. Nobody can do psycho-thug better than Sean Bean, and Charlie Creed-Miles has created a dangerously weak character as Billy, whom it is almost possible to feel sorry for without actually liking. The film is very well lit, though I did find sound levels a little dodgy at times It’s a film that, despite critics’ comments, is not a million miles from Get Carter in quality.

Gritty British Thriller

Like a great many reviewers on this page I liked ESSEX BOYS . Okay maybe it`s not a classic like GET CARTER or THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY but it`s good to see a British gangster film that owes absolutely nothing to Guy Ritchie . Best thing about the film is Sean Bean`s performance as the psycotic bad guy. It`s probably the sort of role that doesn`t need any type of thespian talent but Bean plays these type of bad guys very well and it`s very easy to see why when a Hollywood producer wants a slimey limey villain Bean`s name is top of the list . The only real problem I had with the film is the caption at the start which refers to the real life events which meant I was able to work out the ending of ESSEX BOYS well before it happened

Britfellas

This abrasive British gangster movie set in Essex, a county due east of London, thrives on double-crosses galore. None of the underworld characters are role models, much less noble individuals, and they live to ascend to the top of their rackets over anybody’s dead body. No, the English accents are not thatthick, but you may find it difficult to make it through this thoroughly unsavory crime thriller. Everybody is prepared to kill, kill, kill and the rugged life of British mobsters is short-lived. Incidentally, the British police loiter on the edges of the action. Ostensibly, the story is told by an enterprising but harmless cabdriver named Billy Reynolds (Charlie Creed-Miles) who gets mixed with with ex-convicts Jason Locke (Sean Bean of “GoldenEye”) and John Dyke (Tom Wilkinson of “Rush Hour”) who operate in the cutthroat narcotics smuggling business. They specialize in Ecstacy, or what they refer to as ‘spotted pills’ and a bad shipment threatens to undo the partnership between Locke and Dyke. Locke mistreats his wife, Lisa Locke (Alex Kingston of NBC-TV’s “ER”)with casual abandon and openly has sex with any tart to whom he takes a fancy. When she catches him giving it to another woman, she goes ballistic and howls about how she maintained her loyality to him by abstaining from sex during the five years he spent in prison. He reminds her that he does as it likes and them publicly humiliates her and sends her groveling to her knees in front of everybody. As we learn later on, Lisa is a woman not to be scorned.

Director Terry Winsor and scenarist Jeff Pope based this 102-minute, R-rated thriller on the notorious Rettendon Range Rover Murders,” where authorities discovered three gangsters gunned down and left for dead shot in a Range Rover during one snowy evening. Billy proves his worth as a driver and Dyke loans him to loose cannon hood Jason Locke who has no qualms about throwing people out of windows or strangling uncooperative girls that refuse to let him have his way with them. Action develops gradually with less characters winning in the end over the crazed Locke. Winsor handles things nicely enough and the ending is truly a revelation along with Alex Kingston’s role as Locke’s wife. Not as charismatic as “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels” or for that matter any of the other Guy Ritchie crime melodramas. Humor is singularly lacking in this no-nonsense outing. The moral is obvious: do not associate with shady characters who use guns to settle their arguments and are forever paranoid about witnesses to the massacres they have seen.