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Ill Manors (2012)

Crime | 121 minutes
3,43 359 votes

Genre: Crime / Thriller

Duration: 121 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Ben Drew

Stars: Riz Ahmed, Ed Skrein and Natalie Press

IMDb score: 7,1 (11.406)

Releasedate: 6 June 2012

Ill Manors plot

"We are all products of our environment ...some environments are just harder to survive in"

Ill Manors is set in the unforgiving streets of London. The film follows a number of young people, all of whom struggle to survive the violence of crime, drugs and gangs that engulf them every day. Junkie Michelle is looking for her next shot, taking the destructive path to cruel drug dealer Ed, who will stop at nothing to find his lost phone. Just released from prison, ex-drug dealer Kirby attempts to adjust to the treacherous street life after 15 years, only to encounter local mobster Chris, who is waging his own warpath and seeking revenge.

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John Lee Hooker

  • 14934 messages
  • 1625 votes

A selection from the world of hopeless lives and poverty-stricken existences. The people involved all have a certain connection with each other, so that the actions of the person concerned are directly reflected in a different perspective. However gloomy or violent it may be, the sober film style and the rap lyrics written on screen bring street life to an understandable experience. However, due to the abundance of individual backgrounds and the endless accumulation of catastrophes, I lost a significant percentage of my attention at some point. Suddenly everything seemed to depend on chance and the choices of characters were determined by unforeseen formulas. Remains strong, but the focus should have been on a smaller scale.

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leatherhead

  • 3556 messages
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Solid frame story, in which you as a viewer immediately get a tsunami of characters. Still, that doesn't matter, because the roles are well interpreted piece by piece. And those spicy English dialogues are of course a feast for the ears.

The first hour of the film is well underway. The way in which the storylines collide does not feel very artificial for a change, although the second hour throws a spanner in the works. From then on, coincidences gradually take over, resulting in a lot of consternation (the burning building). Bit of a shame though.

The atmosphere remains intact, visually it looked okay, and the way the raps were integrated certainly gave the film something extra. Overall a decent film, which (especially the first hour) is very entertaining. Small 3.0*.

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Filmkriebel

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Quite a foul-mouthed film about a derailed youth in the suburbs of London. It is partly told through rap songs and that fits reasonably well with the film and the target audience. Rap is a subculture that stems from metropolitan social ills and reflects the frustrations of a youth without perspectives. The film wants to make a statement by making the parents jointly responsible for the violence. But...

The various characters are not very nuanced: this film lacks human emotion or a bit of poetry, which made the characters seem stereotypical to me and could count on little understanding or sympathy. If you as an author nevertheless want to focus on parental responsibility, then also show the child-parent relationship, then the social accusation will also reverberate. Now it just isn't. A fierce scene with the baby being thrown out the window during the fire . This was British cinema at its rawest.

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