Relentless

The cast and crew all deserve props for producing a solid indie film.

If you watch Fast & Furious movies all the time then it's totally not a fair comparison.

Producing a film like this with a fraction of the budget takes financial ingenuity and creative flair.

But the film holds its own.

And it's refreshingly different to most indie gangster films which are all filmed in east London.

That alone was refreshing.

The lead characters hold their own weight and carry the plot really well.

If you're up for watching something a little different which is not the usual CGI heavy, big budget predictable Hollywood stuff... this is definitely worth a watch.

I hope the DOP gets suitable recognition for his work too.

And finally... I did laugh at the shout-out in the credits for Boscombe railway station staff chasing them off.

Yes, you're supposed to get permission and pay location fees for that kind of thing. But if you're up against it, you've got to get creative.

Love that they pulled it off.

There are so many budget/indie films that are around, and this i came across, and i have to say i enjoyed it, the meaning to the film was there it had that heart felt feeling to it, not just an ex con getting out and having a bit of revenge, worth a look if you like the budget/indie films!

After having greatly enjoyed independent film-maker Steven Murphy's sexually skewed, downbeat small-town melodrama 'My Saviour', I eagerly went into his gritty suburban pot-boiler 'Relentless', secretly hoping for a similarly strange, off-beat excursion into the bellicose Brit-gangster milieu, only to soon discover that, for reasons obscure, Murphy largely eschews the quixotic, auteurist weirdness of 'My Saviour' for a far more formulaic gunz n' dodgy geezerz 'Essex Boys' pastiche. Jake (Steven), an amiable quick-fisted lug is released from nick for crimes obscure, only to find himself inexorably embroiled in some increasingly volatile small-town chav warfare that will do little to endear him to his parole officer!.

After the muscular thug with the big heart comes to the aid of Ava (Tiffany Ellen-Robinson), a chippy, red-headed brass with the proverbial gilded heart, these dramatically mismatched hearts form an uneasy, frequently febrile alliance as they frantically attempt to elude the ever encroaching menace of knife-wielding, Hyena-like Hoodies, reckless roid-headed hoodlums, gun-happy gangsters and some mountainous mush-mouthed mongle called 'The Beast'! Even with 'Relentless' concluding explosively in a seemingly arbitrary squib-happy gunfight I found myself a little underwhelmed by it all. The acting performances are pretty variable, with stolid, if unexciting work from Murphy, and the plainly engaged Ellen-Robinson is convincing as the pitifully insecure, hard-luck, happy-go-mucky harlot, but, unfortunately, it is all a trifle predictable, Murphy's generic dialogue is functional, rather than exceptional, the too-hectic fight scenes appeared rushed, but happily the noisome, thick-eared narrative is deliciously enlivened by actor/composer Maria Theresa Rodriguez's fine score. In conclusion, while I enjoyed the more incongruent episodes of 'Reckless' it lacked the inherent WTF quality of 'My Saviour'. To end on a more positive note, I genuinely dug the Father Ted joke!

Likeable characters who speak with such a strong English accent they should have included subtitles.

The story goes nowhere. You keep waiting for action but it's few and far between.

There is no resolution. It just ends.

4/10.

As jbar 19 said, "Likeable characters". But that's about it. Script is all over the place.

It's as if the writer/director has dyslexia, or doesn't understand how the A to Z alphabet works. Makes shows like this hard to watch. It's as if he had the first and last scenes clearly in his head, but dropped the middle pages on the floor, not remembering their order.

Would like to see the main 2 cast in something decently written. They have potential... This movie did not.

Gave it and extra two stars for them. It's only really a 3.