Dog Eat Dog

I found this to be a really memorable film. I was a black twenty something struggling to make it in London at the time and it hit closer to me that I would of liked it too. I felt that its strengths were the outrageous characters that were essentially spoiling the lives of 'normal' people. The film spends the whole while building up the problem as these youngsters get themselves deeper and deeper into trouble. Doing things that "I really would not do" to get themselves out. While I normally don't like that sort of formula, for me, in this film, it really worked. I thought that it was so funny. Not a high brow film, but really enjoyable, I whole heartedly recommend seeing it, particularly if you are black from London and are a guy.

Unoriginal and insulting to real London lads, I'm sure looking at the so called London underworld through rose coloured spectacles is all well and good for posh university types who don't have a clue but it's not really saying anything new. If your gonna make a funny gangster film at least try to tell a believable story with funny lines not just a film showing stupid situations. Must Try Harder

Yet another "london based madcap comedy" littered with a few familiar British faces and a lot of unknowns.

Not a bad film, but certainly not a good one. It centres on 4 black DJ friends in their twenties, ducking and diving trying to think of ways to make money for their individual cash flow problems....

obviously this involves getting involved with drugs, porn and a vast array of really odd over the top characters along the way.

Very much like "SOUTH WEST NINE" and "IT WAS AN ACCIDENT....", and about as enjoyable, which is not very.

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While this has the reputation of being a film with a mostly black cast this is not the case. The cast contains a mixture of black, Asian and white actors. It stars All Saints' Melanie Blatt (who is Jewish) and she is very good in this (her dog is hilarious!). It also features John Thomson from the Fast Show (who has a funny cameo) and Trevor Peacock from the Vicar of Dibley. Gary Kemp is brilliant as a dog loving drug dealer and probably has the best lines in the film. There are a number of laugh out aloud moments in this picture and one shouldn't get hooked up on racial issues. It's just a pleasant, witty, amusing and non-offensive comedy and should be viewed as such.

Films like this are essential teething projects for new talent, looks like one writer (and main character) has gone on to direct a lot of TV, so it paid off.

It was clearly a modest budget film and it is a little inconsistent, but it's well-intentioned good fun, and can be enjoyed for what it is. It's of its time, of course, and nobody will call it the crown of their career, but it's a film that got made competently and gave people a start/leg-up.

Some of the cast have gone on to do some bigger stuff, too.