Outlaw (2007)

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:

Stabbed In The Stomach | Telephone Marketing | Wedding Dress | Framed | Shot In The Neck

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

silly and dumb but had its moments.

From the trailers of Outlaw one could probably say that this film is going to rock ! Guns , girls and gore right? With a cast like Sean Bean and Danny Dyer , Bob Hoskins and Nick Love the man who gave us Football Factory and The Business , we got the Brit Pack ere ! Unfortuntaley that is not the case this time round , don't get me wrong the idea of a vigilante mob that takes the law into their own hands seemed pretty cool and giving the current climate of yob culture in Briton it would help to have someone would knock some heads together. Sean Bean plays a soldier who has just returned from Iraq to find his life is just as bad as it was out there and he seems to do a pretty good job of playing a tortured man that kind made me draw comparisons between him and Robert De Niro's character out of Taxi Driver , he then goes about setting up a group of like minded individuals who just like him have snapped with the wrongs that go on around them. So far so good Nick Love does a good job of keeping the film moving and at times blending in realistic problems with the fantasy side of things. However although I felt all the actors performed well , what they had to work with was very limited and thusly a script that lacked depth really does not make you care about the characters that much. Also I found it to be a little dull in places and then getting very rushed towards the last 30 minutes of the movie with things flying about left , right and centre just made it chaotic. Too conclude Outlaw came across as a movie which could of had a lot of potential and probably could of been Nick Love's finest piece of work to date as it dealt with a subject most of us deal with every day and night whilst on the streets of the UK , but unfortunately a shoddy, shallow script and messy direction made this one lose serious marks. I understand this was made mainly of donations from fans of Nick Love but unfortunately that really is no excuse but Nick's trademark violence made sit all the way through it. My advice is just wait for it to hit the rental shop .

OUTLAW 6.8 OUT OF 10

FIGHTING BACK IN 2007