This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

The greatest movie ever made..!

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Outlaw is a stupid revenge movie from hooligan filmmaker Nick Love. Ever since his successful debut feature The Football Factory Love likes to point his camera eagerly at male aggression. Such is also the case in Outlaw, in which the ever reliable Sean Bean plays a disillusioned war veteran who trains a group of vigilant citizens to wipe the scum off the streets, Bronson style.The problem with Outlaw is that the transformation of seemingly normal guys into merciless killers isn't anywhere near believable, especially the prosecutor who joins Bean's gang when his wife is murdered by a powerful mob boss. I mean, even Bronson in Death Wish started out with a sock of coins. These white collar guys have no problem handling automatic weapons. Also, it doesn't take them long to develop a taste for cold blooded murder.All this is very unconvincing and rather silly, but that doesn't stop Love from serving it all up with great solemness and false cowboy romanticism. And what are we to make from the development of office worker Gene (would-be tough guy Danny Dyer), who starts out getting kicked and beaten by some street punks and ends up a "real man" in the finale, ready to shoot someone in the head? It's as if Love really believes this crap about a rite of passage through bloody violence. It left a bad taste.

Sgt. Danny Bryant comes home from a tour of duty in Iraq to find that things aren't what they once were. A gang of thugs has moved into the neighbourhood, and his wife is with another man. Gene Dekker, is beaten up by thugs, and he sets out to get revenge on the men. Terence Manning, a gangster of London's underworld, is currently on trial, with lawyer Cedric Munroe heading the prosecution's legal team. Manning's men attack both Munroe's wife, and persuade Munroe's bodyguard Walter not to intervene. The men from an alliance, and set out to even the score against those who wronged them, though their contempt for the law puts them outside the lines of conventional justice.....Yes, it's a trashy, exploitative movie, but its one of my all time favourite guilty pleasures. And it's because its starts off silly, goes a little cuckoo in the middle, and then, the third act is just beyond, beyond bonkers.But Love is one of this directors that doesn't really do anything other than over the top British bulldog B-movies. And they are all full of another word beginning with B, but with his films, you can just switch off, and forget everything else for ninety or so minutes.The cast are all fine, and do what you would expect them all to do in films like this. Bean meets all the rest of the group whilst really angry, and this anger makes them angry, and Bob Hoskins is there to overlook everything.Imagine The Avengers after fifteen pints of strong Lager, and Pie and Chips?, then this is your movie.It's pretty visceral stuff, the camera work tries to make it look realistic, but it looks like it must have been cold on the day.To say the third act is beyond ridiculous is an understatement, but by the time it arrives, you couldn't care less.If you like this type of film, its a riot,if you don't, fair enough.

I had high hopes for this one, I loved the director's previous work the football factory and this had a great cast, hoskins, bean, dyer etc. However, Director Nick Love does a very poor job here, he's trying to create a satire on modern Britain and throw in a lot of violence to make it a present dat "death wish" vigilante movie but that fails on both counts. Character development is appalling, I was scratching my head here more than I've ever done in a movie, some of the plot inconsistencies were just laughable, other posters have mentioned the specifics so I wont go into details here. Love should stick to his bread and butter of football hooligans, he went over his head here and created an instantly forgettable film.

When I first heard that Danny Dyer and Sean Bean were appearing in a film together, i thought it was going to be legendary. Before I saw this at the cinema it had received several slatings by film critics. There are some holes in the story, but it is a gripping film, with some violent and traumatic scenes (yes I thought these were good), and the cast and acting was very good on the whole: Sean Harris (aka the Kestrel) plays the part so well, Danny Dyer is always good in my opinion, and with the gravitas of Sean Bean and Bob Hoskins its almost faultless. Film-making was good, but it does seem like the story line was adjusted to fit the film as its not always logical. P.s. If this was a DVD rating id give it 9 because of the film commentary by Nick Love and Danny Dyer. That is what would make me watch the film again.