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I hadn't seen the ratings on IMDb until after watching the movie itself. I have to say, that is some harsh reviews there. The whole film was indeed enjoyable, it portrayed the Krays and London gang-lands as a whole, very well. There were moments in the film where it became very boring and quite monotonous, in the sense that it seemed as if it were never going to end, but the last thirty minutes really makes the film worth watching. After seeing Goodfellas and hearing that it was a lot like that but a little less funny and, of course, a lot more English-based, I expected quite a lot. Nevertheless, this film still surprised me and maintained to keep me on edge throughout the entirety of its showing. If I could give it any rating, I'd give it around 7.6, but I'd have to round this to 8. It's a brilliant film and it doesn't merely deserve 6.6 overall.

So, I've heard many good things about this film. I was told that it would be one of the funniest films that I've ever seen, I've heard people say that it's outstanding, and some people have said that it's the best comedy of the past decade. So, I thought, I should watch it to see how good it is. I don't really regret watching it, but to be honest, that was long droning monotony. I enjoyed the storyline and some bits were quite amusing, but I merely grinned at it. How this gets 7.8, I'll never know, because the point of a comedy film is to make me laugh, but really the only thing that was keeping me watching was the fact that the storyline wasn't actually too bad. Hence, I gave it a five. This might be the definition of an average film. Massively overrated.