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.

This movie is one of the worst directed, worst written, and worst acted horror movies I have seen in awhile. Just skip it and find anything else. The ending, if u can even call it that, makes no sense, basically the movie just stops.

Stop making movies with your kids pocket money.

I tend to start watching films, then last about 10 minutes, then I am all in, or abandon it and start another one. Having tried to watch Hot Air, which I abandoned when some irritating niece turns up, I started relentless. A gritty, British film, that portrays a ex con leaving prison and within a day manages to upset the local scumbag lowlifes. It really is a depressing take on gangs and people that I am sure exist, but thankfully I have never come across. Jake, is the tough man with a decent heart, who rescues an underage prostitute and this provides an insight into her life and family. I did find it compelling to watch and reinforces the common trope that violence never ends well. I was rather hoping it would.

This film could have been so much more. It drags itself from beginning to end and it seems that parts of the dialogue and film are missing.

Fight scenes are pretty naff and the plot is just abysmal as it seems to jump around all over the place with no rhyme or reason to it.

If you want a film that delivers a good scrap then this is not it. Save yourself the time and effort it takes to watch and find something better. At just shy of 80 mins runtime I think its been cut down far too much for any semblance of sense and continuity to shine through.

I gave it 3 stars because that's as about as much as it deserves.

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!