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Overview
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Writer:
Brendan Foley (writer)
Tagline:
Stop running. Face the future.
Plot:
Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison... more | full synopsis
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Johnny Was just won audience award at Toronto Rebelfast more (38 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Vinnie Jones | ... | Johnny Doyle |
 | Patrick Bergin | ... | Flynn |
 | Eriq La Salle | ... | Julius |
 | Samantha Mumba | ... | Rita |
| Lennox Lewis | ... | Ras |
 | Roger Daltrey | ... | Jimmy |
 | Laurence Kinlan | ... | Michael |
| Wilson Jermaine Heredia | ... | Sparra |
| Mark Asante | ... | Nathan |
 | Sam Sarpong | ... | Skipp |
 | Charles Porter | ... | Diggs |
| John Fashanu | ... | DJ Fash |
| Colin Stewart | ... | Druggie |
| Emma Little | ... | Cafe Waitress (as Emma Lyttle) |
| Gerard Carlin | ... | Dead Junkie |
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Rated R for violence, pervasive language, drug use and brief nudity.
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USA:93 min
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USA:R | Australia:MA | Germany:18 | Singapore:M18 | Iceland:16
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Lennox Lewis spent his honeymoon in Belfast filming the movie less than a week after the wedding in Jamaica. more
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Anachronisms: In the shootout scene with the police in chapter 10, the white police Vauxhall Vectra has the registration number ATM 874L, this is a 1972 registration and the car is clearly post 2000. more
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Johnny Was just one the audience award at Rebelfest, the indie fest that runs alongside Toronto Film Fest. It even got an encore screening because it sold out and the audience feedback was so good.
It beat out ten other features, some of which were also really good.
I agree with Innababylon's comments. The movie is a rolicking good bit of madness that gallops all over the place. The characters are larger than life so of course not 'believable' but very engaging. The movie tries to be both a B-Movie and a 'thinker' with a lot of humor.
Will it make my top ten? Doubt it, but is it part of a great night in, for anyone who likes a mad little movie with a heart and a brain, you bet. The movie is driven along by an amazing soundtrack of about forty reggae tracks from the On-U label and others.
Overall, eight out of ten.