Cubussoli
Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Teringer
An Exercise In Nonsense
adonis98-743-186503
The life of career criminal Carlton Leach. Rise of the Footsoldier is 98% Sex, Bad Language and Drugs alongside alot of people getting punched in the nose. The acting is horrible, the characters are terrible and i didn't feel anything regarding anyone and the film has this Ritchie vibe that it tries to achieve and it fails when on the same time it tries to become the Next 'Departed' or something along those lines and it fails hard on all levels that a good biography needs to have. (0/10)
Spencercollins
the best of the "Essex boys" mini genre by far. the violence that keeps getting reviewed as over the top on here is nothing but necessary to the plot. we need to remember the reign of terror went on for many years until it finally concluded in the boys death. this needed to be compressed in to an hour and a half, therefore, it needed to depict how violent these guys were. Craig fairbrass, despite what I keep reading on here, played an amazing pat Tate with natural screen presence and menace. I am not a fan of terry stone usually but thought he to played tucker well, just the odd lapse in good acting. and I enjoyed watching Roland play Craig Rolfe too. very well cast. all in all I think this was one of our best modern day films in this genre to date. I recommend anyone with a taste for violence and crime in their movies to watch this film. you wont regret it
matthewwalker50
Rise of the footsoldier opens up depicting the life of Carlton Leach. A feared gangster throughout south east London. This story shows his rise to power & dominance of being in a feared Gangster crew and the leader of football hooliganism. Ricci Harnet is far more convincing in his acting & performance than his role as Corporal Mitchell in 28 Days Later. Carlton Leach is shown as a very young man at the opening of the Movie. Ricci Harnet does a good job narrating throughout. Although It's narrating is not (In my opinion) on the level of Pesci & De Niro's narrative skills in Casino, or Ray Liotta in Goodfellas. I must forewarn anyone who is keen on watching this that there is an exceptional level of profanity that is uttered at a constant rate. With 390 F-Words (according to celebrityfword.com) and probably nearly 100 C-Words in 114 minutes, I very strongly advise anybody with sensitivity to filthy language to steer well clear of this film. There are torturous and brutal, violent scenes in this movie. An extremely graphic depiction of drugs including cocaine, anabolic steroids, heroine, & ecstasy. There is one extremely graphic rape scene with drugs implied into the scene. There is sexual activity in a car with bare breasts, & brief scenes of sexual intercourse with both a woman & man completely naked. Penetration is shown. Gory, violent scenes include a quite brutal train fight ignited by football hooliganism between West Ham United & Millwall. A man gets an axe in his head and bleeds severely to the point of near loss of consciousness. He is afterwards seen having the large wound stitched up. There is a hooligan riot with bricks, fire, Molotov's, fists & feet all used as weapons. There is a very disturbing scene were a man is literally nailed into the ground from head to toe. Defenceless & unable to move, is left to suffer horribly & die. His blood is transfered onto a wall used as text which Carlton wrote in red "This is what happens to thieves" There is a Land rover murder shown 2-3 times with a lot of blood. Men are injected with poison and vomit, choke, & die from suffocation. And finally a torture scene where men have the teeth physically ripped out with pliers very hard. Bags are smothered over mens heads, this is probably the most intense torture scene in the whole movie. It is very gritty & tense. Julien Gilbey's definitive best directed film by some long way. It's crazy & relentless, shocking & entertaining. Ultimately it is a British Gangster film that is one of the best MOB films I've ever seen come from England. Don't miss it! I give it a HUGE 9/10! Great movie.
t_atzmueller
Reading all those devastating reviews (or shall we say, predominently devastating) about this movie, I have to break a lance for „Rise of the Footsoldier". Sure, this movie isn't for everyone. For example, if films like "Fried Green Tomatoes" or "The Hours" are among your favourites and if you're more of a Wim Wenders- / Sergei Eistenstein-type, well, this might not exactly be your kind of film. Same goes if you're not into violence or cussing.However, there are other types: those who don't mind the violence- and cussing-bits. Quiet the opposite.True enough, the direction is no masterwork and the story often disjointed, always fearful of loosing a moment of violence and mayhem. But it's the characters, which make the film interesting: Ricci Harnett is a suitable, shark-like 'protagonist', one cannot help but admire the tenacity with which Terry Stone spews out obscenities and violence at an equal measure and, again, if you're not the type who enjoys Craig Fairbrass cutting up a pizza-boy with a pizza-cutter (cussing all the while), well, this movie wasn't made for you. Special mention should go to Frank Harper, who, despite only making a short appearance, is brilliant as ever and makes a spin-chilling murderous psychopath. Never was an actor more cut out to play hooligans, brutes and thugs.Did I mention that the movie is violent? Very, very violent. The violence in "Rise of the Footsoldier" keeps a fine balance between exaggerated-, comic-book gore and realistic brutality, heading to the level of 'exploitive', but, as said, the film never pretends to be a moral play or romantic comedy.Lingual-wise, the better part of the dialogue – the one that's not about committing crimes, taking drugs or beating up people – is reserved for two words. IMDb etiquette won't allow me to post the full context but that this review and add at least one "FAK" and one "KANT" to each sentence; you'll get the picture. I must also admit, although I'm not a native English-speaker, I generally have no troubles watching films in English – with a few exception; among those exceptions it "Rise of the Footsoldier", which forced me to turn on the subtitles. Wouldn't want to miss one of the verbal obscenities, would you?Definitely one of the better British gangster and hooligan films; I give it 7 FAKIN points out of 10 points, KANT.By the way, "Bounded by Blood", after "The Essex Boys" and "Rise of the Footsoldier", the third re-telling of the Rettendon Range Rover murders, should be thoroughly avoided by people who enjoyed this film, especially since it has been billed as "Footsoldier 2" in some countries. Despite a similar cast and storyline, that movie was a real zero-pointer.
