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Dead Man Running
When illness causes his mother (Brenda Blethyn) to need a wheelchair, doting con Nick Kane (Tamer Hassan) goes...
Dead Man Running
It's not just the economy that's undergoing a recession. There's a poverty of ideas in UK cinema; a regressive, cheap-as-chips mentality that foregrounds bargain-basement entertainment. While retro hooligan films (Awaydays, The Firm) and horror comedies (Lesbian Vampire Killers, Doghouse) entreat us to party like it's 1989, Alex De Rakoff's latest, brought to the screen with the aid of Rio Ferdinand and Ashley Cole, aims squarely for the mid-1990s, like The Heavy before it. As The Prodigy booms from the speakers and strippers boredly bump and grind, 'Economist'-reading crime lord Thigo (50 Cent, somewhat implausible as the head of an international syndicate, even though he is one) bemoans the financial climate: "This fucking credit crunch has ripped the lining...
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