Stoutor
It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
Kidskycom
It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.
BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Critical Eye UK
Back in the Fifties, many a movie seemed to require one or other of its characters to say: 'hey, let's put on a show!'. In what may have passed for the gestation of this film, someone, perhaps the writer / director, said: 'Hey, let's make a movie!' The result now is much the same as the result way back then, except that in those Fifties disasters the people on each side of the camera had a reasonable idea of what they were doing. No such luck here: if I'd had to sit through this as a graduation piece from young film makers, the most charitable verdict would've been that 'Hard Men' is to movie making what Jeffrey Archer is to English Literature. In other words, no connection.The movie doesn't so much take to the screen as set up house in a cliche -- guns, shouting, more guns, more shouting, bad language, guns, bad language, guns. As reportage it's dismal. As fiction it's unsustainable. The acting is of a standard to make one wish to hand out Oscars to those responsible for 'Night of the Lepus' ('Attack of The Killer Rabbits') and the direction as consistent as a weathervane in a hurricane. But that ol' Fifties magic lingers on, for a third of the way through the director finally loses the plot altogether and it's time for 'hey, let's put on a show!' -- whereupon one or other of the mass murderers turns to the camera and sings about his newborn baby.Come back, Ed Wood. All is forgiven.Rating: unrateable.
Afracious
I always try and write encouraging comments on English films, after all, there are many things they have going against them. But this film is appallingly awful. I can't say anything positive for it. The three stooges, sorry, so-called actors, are not hard at all. Three old women would provide more menace. One of the characters is most absurd. He wears different coloured strange shaped glasses every day, hardly what you'd see a tough gangster doing. The acting is extremely amateur as well. This is just so mediocre and unacceptable. Everything about it stinks to high heaven. Don't waste any money watching this film, you will deeply regret it.
id247
You get the impression from the other reviews on this page that this is one of those films you love or hate.Well there has to be someone to spoil it, so I'll put my two pennies worth in. I like the film even though it has many flaws. The three main actors are very watchable and the film passes real quick which is a sign of a well paced effort.Sure it borrows moments from many other films but then again which film of the last 40 years hasn't?Cliched, violent and derivative it may be, but I still stayed with it to the end, and it does have a lot of style. Get Carter it may not be, but a damn fine effort never-the-less.
Mike S.
This is a hopeless mistake of a film. The director has taken some elements of "Reservoir Dogs" and "Trainspotting", mixed them up with "Get Carter" and forgotten that all those films were reliant on real creative talent. This film is derivative, pointlessly violent, horribly unfunny and badly acted.
