The Crew (2008)

• Year: 2008
• Released: 14 Aug 2009
• Country: United Kingdom
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071880/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_crew
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
• Runtime: 123 min
• Writer: Ian Brady, Kevin Sampson, Adrian Vitoria
• Director: Adrian Vitoria
• Cast: Scot Williams, Kenny Doughty, Cordelia Bugeja
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5.9/10

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Inhabiting Liverpool’s violent and seedy underworld, THE CREW follows a gang of hardened criminals out for that ever-tempting ‘one last heist’. Stephen Graham is the scouse Joe Pesci! Puts the fear into you! Led by brothers Ged and Ratter, the gang’s future hangs in the balance as Ged wants out of the criminal lifestyle while Ratter is keen to branch out into thethe more lucrative drugs trade. Knowing that he needs his brother in order to pull of the impending heist, Ratter goes along with Ged though he secretly plans to ditch him at the first opportunity. Ged, meanwhile, must summon all of his street smarts and killer instinct if he is to come out of this alive. Based on the novel OUTLAWS by Kevin Sampson, THE CREW is a typically gritty British thriller that shoots first and asks questions later.

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a brilliant British gangster movie, great cast, great story, great movie

the crew is a brilliant British gangster movie, based on the novel ‘outlaws’ and set in liverpool’s underworld, its gritty dark, and very violent, the movie I’ve seen so far to rival the violence of ‘rise of the footsoldier’. the movie is very well made, it looks great, it’s funny at times, but this movie isn’t played for laughs at all, its a brutal look, at a brutal world, full of brutal characters, both high and low. British gangster movies seem to take a lot of stick these days, thanks to some less than steller movies, but thats ashame, because since ‘rise of the footsoldier’ the genre has been on a high delivering some truly good movies, this being one of them, there are a couple of truly nasty scenes that some viewers may find hard to watch., but that aside this is a great movie and a British movie to be proud of, i highly recommend

Heavy and over ambitious Liverpool set crime film

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning

Liverpool crime boss Ged Brennan (Scot Williams) has built a successful and respected life for himself on the back of a life of crime but bad intelligence on his last scam lead to it all being a waste of time. Even worse, a figure head of crime in his local area has just turned up dead and the hunt is on for who did it. But Ged’s planning to get back into the game with his biggest heist yet- but the threat of betrayal all around him is becoming a real problem.

All the ingriedients were here for a perfect crime film- realistic and brutal, The Crew on paper must have seemed perfect. But while it’s far from an awful attempt to bring the world of the Liverpool crime scene to life, it still feels like a bit of a mess and like it falls short of what it first set out to do. And even worse, it seems to be one of those films where the trailer has made it look more exciting than it really is.

The main problem is how disjointed and incoherent it all feels, with the main story and the sub plot seeming to morph over each other and taking up too much time, and with the film running at maybe a bit too ambitious just under two hours, this is even more of a problem. While I understand the film intended to be brutal and hard hitting, a tooled up gang in forensic outfits filming their slaughter of a group of drug addicts in a flat, a scene where a male and female junkie are made to perform sleazy sex acts for and on two crooks with bisexual leanings and a leary Scots character who gets his thrills from strippers and fat hookers all feel a tad gratuitous and added merely for shock value. Far from awful, but could have been a lot better if done with a bit more restraint and focus. **

nihilistic and brilliant

The Crew goes where many British gangster flicks tends to skirt around. It’s an adaptation of Kevin Sampson’s novel Outlaws (he wrote the screenplay too), and really shows off an attention to detail that paints a graphic and nihilistic picture of gangster life. It plays on moral bankruptcy rather than trying to spin out pithy one liners and any pretence of cool.

Nothing good happens to anyone; violence and lust doesn’t make people happy, poetic justice slips through when you least expect and some neat twists give it a decent narrative that is a lot smarter than the usual brit gangster flic.

Bodes well for Awaydays!