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Genres:
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Crime /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Terry Winsor
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Actors:
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Billy Murray,
Larry Lamb,
Terence Rigby,
Charlie Creed-Miles,
Sally Hurst,
Gareth Milne,
Amelia Lowdell,
Louise Landon,
Sean Bean,
Alex Kingston,
Michael McKell,
Holly Davidson,
Tom Wilkinson,
George Jackos,
Gary Love
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Duration:
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103 min.
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Rating:
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(5.8/10)96
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Plot Summary:
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Locke (Sean Bean) is a lawlessness boss hardly released from prison and planning to regain his former attitude on top of Essex's flagitious underworld. He meets up with Billy, a cabbie who becomes intrigued by the power and thrills of a life of felony. Together they plan a apportion with the local medicine boss with explosive consequences. Also starring Alex Kingston (of TV's E.R.) as Locke's wife.
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Gritty gangster film
This is actually my second time of watching this film; I had watched it a few years back and probably slightly intoxicated as my memory of the film was befuddled to say the least. One thing I did remember was the fact that I enjoyed the movie so my wife and I decided to give it another go and we were not disappointed. Essex Boys is based on true events and very much in the style of your typical brit gangster film. Sean Bean is up to his usual high acting standard as the ex convict with attitude and film follows one gangster outwitting another, all told from point of view of the unwilling accomplice Billy whiz. Essex Boys has all you might expect from a gritty gangster film, packed with violence, action and of course swearing, it is almost too much as a couple of scenes do threaten to offen...
Essex Boys
Yet another British gangster film. This one is set in beautiful Essex and Sean Bean stars as a psycho ex-con clawing back his reputation
Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels has a lot to answer for – not only Snatch, but a glut of British gangster flicks notable for an excess of laddish villainy, but a lack of style or menace.
Set amid the mock Tudor mansions, medallions and estuary vowels of Britain's most maligned county, Essex Boys stars Bean as Jason Locke, a psychopathic thug released from jail and determined to get a slice of the ill-gotten riches of his former colleagues.
Based on a true story, it at least boasts a certain gritty realism. And there are good performances, notably from Alex Kingston as Jason's g...
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