Wilko johnson death hoax1/6/2024 The movie is always gritty and gripping with great and believable characters. MacRay follows her for a time before introducing himself, the pair hit it off and against his better judgement they quickly start a relationship.īased on the novel Prince of Thieves by Chuck Hogan, itself inspired by a real life robbery similar to one referred to in the movie carried out by Doug MacRay’s farther. After successfully completing a bank robbery they suspect that the bank manager Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall) may be able to identify them. Pretty much as soon as the movie starts we are introduced to one of these crews:ĭoug MacRay (Ben Affleck) and James Coughlin (Jeremy Renner) are like brothers, they have know each other all their lives, together with Albert ‘Gloansy’ Magloan (Slaine) and Desmond Elden (Owen Burke) they make up a small well organised team of bank robbers. The movie starts by telling us that Charlestown, a one-square-mile district of Boston is home to more bank robbers than anywhere else in the world and together they are responsible for around 300 robberies a year. Posted in Film Reviews | Leave a Comment » To the credit of writer/director Roberts the movie doesn’t pretend to be important of profound, it knows it is a nasty little horror.ĭespite this sub-genre of movie The Daily Mail will be sorry to hear that England isn’t really been overrun by “Hodddies” this just like last years Harry Brown isn’t an important movie, but it is an effective horror/thriller. Whilst most of the violence is off camera there is some horrible imagery that is somewhat gratuitous. At its best it’s a taught slow burning and slow building thriller that is creepy and shocking. After keeping his daughter (Eliza Bennett) back for detention, they become part of a small group of people who fall victim of a gang of faceless (literally) “Hoodies” who attack the school in a sort of teenage cross between Assault on Precinct 13 and a slasher movie.Īt its worst the movie looks like a cheap direct to video movie with poor overacting, predictable photography and some truly sick imagery. He also has a seemingly irrational fear of youths and youth crime (in other words a daily main reader) but as the saying goes: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you. A year later with his life falling apart, he has a drinking problem and his daughter who is also his student hates him. Director Johannes Roberts has been kicking around the direct to video/DVD market for a decade, with this “fear of hoodies” horror/thriller he has found a mainline to the zeitgeist and received his first cinema/theatrical release.Įnglish literature teacher Robert Anderson (David Schofield) is the victim of an assault by a student.
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