Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins

I am a big believer in the idea that films should be judged in their genre here. For this film's genre -- hyper violent British organed crime drama -- this film is quite good.

I was so looking forward to watching this movie.

I have enjoyed most of them bar the 2nd one and this one is is awful. Storyline is so poor and that Terry Stone his acting is getting worse by the movies. Vinnie Jones is wasted in this movie he could have been given a bigger role.

Massive fan of the original ROTFS movie and the whole story around it, so was really excited to see this on the big screen.

I didn't have high expectations because I haven't been impressed with some of the follow up movies, but I must say it did pack a punch and left me wanting to go see it again because that much happens in it you feel like you have maybe missed something.

The acting was solid from the whole cast and Vinnie Jones played a great part, nothing like the real character BOM but never the less he played a good part and his performance was very good.

I would have liked to have seen some deeper dimensions to Tony's personality and story and I don't think the last few movies have been very fare on his memory playing him as a down and out and joker.

From what I know, Tony was a successful business man and had good sides to his character he had more to him than these movies portray from the years of research I have done but hopefully this will come out some more next time and it's only my personal thoughts.

I would like to see this in the next one where he goes through the journey of friendship with Carlton.

Overall though - good soundtrack, funny scenes, good acting and a good solid story line that keeps you interested from opening to closing.

I would highly recommend that people who have watched the original go see this.

I will definitely be revisiting this one.

I don't even know where to start, confused storyline, unbelievably poor acting, clothing not matching the era, dreadful dialogue, Police interviewing two villains. In the same interview, it's just awful. The only 3 good things, were the two comedy wigs and the Ford Cosworth, other than that there are no saving graces.

A prequel, released 15 years after the original. However it has the same people, playing the same characters and that sets out how confusing it is to understand the timeframe and from there it just gets worse as the story unfolds changing storylines from other films in the series.