Gassed Up

Start watching at 1h and 10 mins. You won't miss nothing I promise you. No character build up, unrealistic I mean where was everybody with their mobile phones in the air, taking Instagram selfies at the rave. Haha.

3 out of 10 for the little bit you get at the end.

Should be able to post shorter reviews because I really have nothing good to say about this. So I'll give you an idea of the dialogue just to waste the last 108 characters required to complete my review.

Know' what I mean bro innit. Bro, bro, bro, bro my fam. Did I miss anything oh hang on... Bro, oh and bro. Innit!!!!!

Urghhhh.

I'm a Londoner and have grown up in the east end. Growing up I knew teenagers into petty crime, and even some small time gangsters like those shown in the film. Gassed Up is a sort of believable portrait of that kind of culture in London, in the 2020s.

Honestly the depiction of London "Ghetto Culture" in this film is probably fairly close to reality, and in that respect the movie gets this aspect kind of right - London youth culture - but not 100% right, and it's not quite as believable as it would like to be.

Apart from that it's a fairly decent anti-crime film with a good message about not taking the wrong path. The story is interesting and watchable and the characters likeable enough to keep me watching.

Not a perfect film by far, but not a bad one either. Check it out if you're interested in London gang culture. But don't take it too seriously.

The film is boring and predictable, the main character is awful and stupid , some of the lesser gang members were more memorable than the lead who blunders from one crisis to another. You never really root for him or feel sorry for him, he neglects his family although the film makers are trying to make him some sort of underdog hero fighting for them. He gets many chances to sort his life out but he never does the right thing and just makes mistake after mistake , a frustrating film with no ending. Was hoping for some sort of twist but it never happens. The film is too slow and nothing really happens until the last 15 mins, it's trying to build up the characters but falls far short. Utterly forgettable and should have gone straight to streaming.

Where do you even begin with this codswallop produced by Amazon? Not one interaction between any of the characters, no matter how big or small had an ounce realism. Everything was so unnatural that you might wonder if this group of supposed actors weren't just caught in a giant butterfly net on a London estate and instructed to speak a load of cringeworthy nonsense to one another in front of a camera. No one comes out of this with any credit. If you've seen one chav movie, you've seen them all. Tune in for a laugh but do be warned; viewing this drivel for any longer than 60 seconds could cause brain damage.

Know what I'm sayin' fam?

First up, this film was glamorising street crime in the way Top Boy, Adulthood et al did, but way late in the day; I was hoping this was a faded trend because this has been done over and over (the formulaic random kids in a street gang that swear too much and the Russian crime lords all set in the mean / clean streets of London #yawn)

Classics like 'The Harder They Come', where a protagonist makes a living through struggle by turning to crime, but karma gets back at him for his earlier actions are leaps and bounds over these types of dramas; you know why. Because they have an actual ability to portray a human's struggle not just mix together protagonists that could literally exist the whole production in balaclavas, vapid performances made relevant by young people speaking the mumble slang of modern Britain.

I despise how a company the size of Amazon just pushes a trend.

If any of the film crew were swamped by petty criminals on mopeds, they might have reconsidered the lame nature of trying to glamourize real-time criminality to gain social hits in this awful era of media creation.

This production was a childlike CBBC life drama made to help children try and gain an understanding of the modern world, but with the type of language that makes me think a writer asked Chat GPT to make an hour-long migraine of dialogue using as many swear words and brinkmanship of Stormzy's raw lyrics as it could.

Well done all around on style, lovely lighting and whatnot, wardrobe good, cast.. whatever, dialogue.. dry.

Just stop watching this stuff, guys; let the algorithms get to work on some classics again.