A New Breed of Criminal

The worst film i have ever seen...Steve wraith is the worst actor iv ever seen and the rest are no better..80s/90s and they have modern cars made decades later 1 landrover even had a chrome wrap!?? They are also using touch screen android phones when they weren't even invented!..everything in this film is bad....i dont understand why it was even made..its about a north east criminal who wasn't very successful and spent a lot of time in prison...don't waste your time.. its boring.........Newcastle is a great place with lots of great people and this movie just shows a dark side that people dont really care about.

Why do script writers always try to find excuses for hardened criminals. This film tells the story of some very nasty people and excuses their behaviour by focussing on their hard upbringing and environment. Trouble is, it doesn't tell the story very well. The acting is average at best with the exception of the wonderful Nicholas Ball. The prize for the worst acting goes to the actor playing Detective Scott. He uses the strangest attempt at an American accent I have ever heard but why attempt it in the first place. He is from Newcastle playing a Newcastle detective. Did I miss something. Is he supposed to be on secondment from the NYPD? Was the explainer cut? As for the rest of the story it just glosses over these real life criminals making them out to be some sort of urban heroes. They are not.

Bless Steve Wraith , the lad so wants to be an actor ....but he's not .Ive seen him in a few things and he's more wooden than Pinocchio's left leg .He seems to stiffen up whenever he has to move .I found myself questioning the actual point of 99% of the film and after sitting through the whole film (in 3 separate sittings) I feel I should punish myself , especially after paying for the privilege. I have an old rusty tin opener in the shed and later on today I will gouge both of my eyes out in an attempt tempt to cleanse my body and what's left of my soul. It makes Rise of the Footsoldier 7 look like Gone With The Wind. I feel I should mention the accent of the lead detective , I can only describe it as sounding like An American Joe Pasquale being violated with a cattle prod. All in all possibly thee worst thing I've ever watched in my life and that includes watching my workmate sneeze in the van causing a large bloodied snot to land on the dashboard.

From the opening scenes and bad lighting, knew this wasn't going to be great.

The narrator even pronounced Elswick with the emphasis on the W, Els Wick, lol

Kept with it hoping to spot places I knew. No nothing to see here, drone shots of the Tyne and a random pub in Consett?

Acting hilarious, at one point thought it was a comedy, it's that bad.

Then realised who Vic was supposed to be and that definitely confirmed it was a comedy.

At one point thought they must of had a Time Machine. Mostly set in the 80's with licence plates of present day and everyone using an I phone.

Save your time and don't bother.

Ok so first, this is set in 1980s/90s, yet everyone has a smartphone, silly mistake but that' sums this up from start to finish.

The lead who plays Stephen is beyond wooden, and it's hard to decide what's worse, the casting or the script.

The Duffer died after a fight at a blues party, stabbed in the armpit. Yet in this he dies walking the town in broad daylight.

The portrayal of Vic or Viv who it's clearly meant to be is again inaccurate.

There's no mention of Stephen and Vic/Viv and the Hobos nightclub incident for which were both jailed for and friends at the time.

The plot jumps around and tries to cram in as much as possible in as short time as possible and the end result was laughable.

Please do not ever write a script again or cast the actor in anything other than an extra role, to help me and others from wasting time and pain.

A film about the north east wouldn't be complete without including Ernie, Big Billy, Panda, Conroys, but through pettiness it seems they've excluded all of the characters that could have made this script better.

Even the use of Duffy was strange and random, and a wasted opportunity missed by amateur writers.

Like to see someone have another try at a true crime north east film, but stay clear of all involved in this when doing so.

Embarrassed for some involved, not all, as 1/2 seemed like cameos for fiends and associates.

Even the ending with Charlie Kray was misleading, Charlie was a loveable rogue, a deal boy, not a gangster, it's disrespectful to his memory to give that impression, but it was also disrespectful to Vivs family how the facts were left out about why they turned on Viv, simply because Viv turned his back on them, came across as petty, like most of the film.