Outlaw (2007)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Nick Love

Writer:

Nick Love (writer)

Release Date:

9 March 2007 (UK)

Genre:

Action | Crime

Tagline:

There will be no excuses. The guilty will be punished. No one is above OUTLAW

Plot:

A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society. |

Plot Keywords:

Vigilante Justice | Pub | Murdered Unborn Child | Beating | Engaged Couple

Cast

Sean Bean	...	Danny Bryant
Danny Dyer	...	Gene Dekker
Rupert Friend	...	Sandy Mardell
Sean Harris	...	Simon Hillier
Lennie James	...	Cedric Munroe
Bob Hoskins	...	Walter Lewis
Sally Bretton	...	Kelly
Joe Jackson	...	Subaru Kid 1
Dave Legeno	...	Ian Furlong
Igor Smiljevic	...	Subaru Kid 2 (as Igor Breakenback)
James Farbell	...	Subaru Kid 3
Emily Maitlis	...	Herself
Shane Reese	...	Kid 1
Ethan Wilson	...	Kid 2
Rory Pettyjohns	...	Kid 3

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, pervasive language and brief sexuality/nudity.

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:18 | Ireland:18 | Australia:MA (2007) | New Zealand:R18 | USA:R | Finland:K-18 | Norway:18 (TV rating) | Argentina:16

Filming Locations:

Bream, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Company:

Ingenious Film Partners

Trivia:

Nick Love based the screenplay on newspaper stories and anecdotes he's been told by people all over the UK. The narrative is fictional, but many of the incidents portrayed are based on fact.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: (At 14:00) When Simon Hillier is spying on Danny Bryant via CCTV, he controls the CCTV cameras using a remote joystick. The joystick makes whirring motor noises, which joysticks do not make. The motors that move the cameras (on some models) make such noises but this would not be heard at the controller end.

Quotes:

Walter Lewis: Most Police couldn't lie in bed straight.

Movie Connections:

References Munich (2005)

Soundtrack:

Puppy Love

Powerful

This isn't The Punisher or Ghost Rider, this is a thought provoking movie about social problems. Unusually it isn't about the social problems of the poor and dispossessed it concentrates on a group of fairly well off (and very well off) people who have (for various reasons) got mental health issues which manifest in violent acts of vigilantism. It is a lot like the football violence film ID but the cast and acting are better and the script & acting is more authentic (but less snappy).

Great performances from nearly everyone of a large cast. Moody and imaginative direction which only missed the mark a couple of times, and decent plot and good script. A few scenes are over styled and the plot seems to warp away from what the scripting and acting are saying in a few places but that really doesn't detract much.

Well worth watching, probably an 8 but I'm going for 9 to off set the 'not enough violence' 2 star crowd.