2007 Directed by Julian Gilbey
Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late eighties and early nineties.
Rise Of The Footsoldier - EC
British gangster movies just hit different.
Pretty entertaining! I’ve seen it before though.
The Range Rover Murders.
Rise of the Footsoldier is a film I’ve been meaning to watch for a long time. I’ve been very interested in the Pat Tate character. Today, I learned this movie is based on a true story. And, I learned all the sequels featuring Craig Fairbrass as Pat Tate are actually prequels. Just for clarification: The prequels are a work of fiction. Confused yet?
About the film: This is one intense flick. It features a lot of hardcore violence and gore. For a movie so heavy, it never stops for air. There’s always something intense going on. Also, we have a funky trippy musical score, and any film that has someone do coke off a hot naked babe…
Ferocious, ultra-violent epic..seek out the two-hour-plus extended cut..details the brutish story of real life football hooligan turned gangland enforcer Carlton Leach. The early sequences depicting the dangerous allure of terrace warfare are both thrilling and terrifying, especially a blood-soaked encounter on the underground between Leach's West Ham thugs and the near-mythical 'Treatment' from rivals Millwall,the Spartans of London football mobs ! Having eventually put the nihilistic hooligan life behind him Leach moves on to lucrative employment in the 'security' business, which brings him into contact with real-life mobsters Tony Tucker and human wrecking-ball Pat Tate. Craig Fairbrass's portrayal of the utterly psychotic but hugely charismatic Tate..think Joe Pesci crossed with Sonny Chiba.. led to his starring in his own series…
One of a glut of British crime dramas based around the infamous Rettendon triple murders. This one mixes the gangster film with a hooligan film as it follows Carlton Leach's (Ricci Harnett) rise from the terraces as a member of West Ham United's notorious Inter City Firm, through his time spent running the doors of some of London's most troubled nightclubs during the dawn of the ecstasy era to his eventual business relationship, first as the hired muscle then as a partner of the three drug dealers who would meet a brutal end up a quiet country road in Essex.
This is based on Leach's own memoir's, the accuracy of which have been called into question but there's no denying…
Geez, why have I never heard of this extremely fun and brutal football hooligan come British gangster flick before?! It was the 'extreme and extended' cut shown on the Paramount channel. I see they have done a few sequels. Keen to check those out!
A series of violent incidents punctuated by dialogue, 90% of which is swears. If that sounds fun, it's not. It's really, really not. The narrative is all over the place, there is no character delineation and bottom line, it's fahking dull, you cahnt!
Absolutely laughable 119-minute cheap glamourisation of the lives of a load of scumbags from London. It's Like sitting in an intimidating cockney pub listening to some coked up football idiot telling you tall tales about his days in 'the firm' for two hours, only he's wearing a terrible wig or strange eye make-up. It honestly looks like a spoof for most of its runtime, and the dialogue is almost Austin Powers-esque in it's (definitely unintentional) parodying of hard nosed Londoners saying 'FACK AWFF YOO CANT' so much you'd be more offended if they didn't end a sentence with it.
This wouldn't be so bad if it didn't take itself so seriously, trying to use really cheesy songs to make you…
English part below
Man schaut 2 Stunden assozialen Typen zu wie sie sich prügeln, morden, vereinigen, abstürzen und es natürlich keinen guten Ausgang gibt. Beruhend auf wahrer Geschichte und recht rough inszeniert, kann man sich einer Faszination nicht erwehren. Schauspielerisch gibt es auch nichts zu meckern.
Beim Kauf am besten auf die Ösi-version samt Extendet-Version zugreifen, da der selbst in der Uncut-Kinofassung hier indiziert ist.
6,5-7,0
You watch for 2 hours how associal types fight, murder, unite, crash and of course there is no good outcome. Based on true history and staged quite rough, you can't help but be fascinated. Actually, there is nothing to complain about.
When buying, it is best to access the austrian-version including the Extendet-Cut, because it is indexed here in the uncut theatrical version.
6,5-7,0
Rise Of The Footsoldier won't be for everybody, so I can understand the widely diverse reviews on here. It seems that people either really love it or absolutely hate it.
I fall somewhere in the middle.
British crime films are a beast unto themselves. Anyone expecting a Guy Richie opus will be disappointed, as will anyone expecting a pommy version of Goodfellas.
This is gritty, brutal and visceral fare with a story that meanders over the course of several years, regularly switching focus between various unlikable characters with the violent proceedings anchored around football hooligan turned career criminal Carlton Leach.
Based on Leach's memoirs and the events surrounding the notorious Rettendon murders, it's not a comfortable watch and at times is a bit of a slog to endure, shining a light as it does directly upon a brutal and unapologetic underworld life that most of us will luckily never have to experience or confront.
59/100
К сожалению, от околофутбола здесь прям совсем чуть-чуть, первые 20 минут. Так как фильм поставлен по автобиографии, главный герой начинал свою деятельность как раз как болельщик "Вест Хэма" (опять). Несмотря на то что футбольных тем здесь немного, сделаны они крайне жестко, даже чересчур местами (полный фильм в аналогичной манере с удовольствием бы посмотрел).
Но в дальнейшем фильм уходит в сторону криминального боевика, так как главный герой от мелких разборок постепенно переходит к серьезному криминалу и становится одним из главных преступников Лондона.
Снято и сделано всё нарочито грязно и c большим передозом ультранасилия, даже там, где оно не особо нужно.
Ну и есть такая болезнь, когда человек не может сфокусироваться на чем то одном, и у него мысль скачет от…
Julian Gilbey’s fact-based, brutal, violent British crime thriller in which a ruthless Essex gangster plots revenge against the drug baron who betrayed him and left him in prison.
The first entry in the Rise of the Footsoldier franchise is based on true events, most specifically the murders in 1995 that took place in Rettendon, and also the autobiography of gangster and football hooligan Carlton Leach - but the final product is one that is a waste of a project.
The story concerns soccer gangster Carlton Leach (Ricci Harnett) who becomes one of the United Kingdom’s most-feared convicts.
Ricci Harnett gives an unconvincing performance in his part as Carlton Leach, one of Great Britain’s most-feared gangsters who shows no determination in…
Brutal and repellent are two words to describe this film, but to be fair; the lives it's depicting are exactly that, so it would be odd for the film to be anything other than deeply unpleasant.
Unfortunately Julian Gilbey's film further alienates by being little more than a series of graphic and bloody violent incidents strung together by a voice over and some half-baked, decidedly suspect dialogue. The film looks professionally made, which is a bonus for any British gangster/hooligan flick, but it does seem to revel in the nauseating escapades which is a shame as this could have been the biggest deterrent to any aspiring idiot out there as the life hardly looks glamourous. It's also a real shame…
