Wild Bill
Wild Bill
| 21 October 2011 (USA)
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Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on.

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Kattiera Nana

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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YouHeart

I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Contentar

Best movie of this year hands down!

poe426

WILD BILL might've been more appropriately titled DEAN'S DILEMMA; it's more about the struggle of the two abandoned sons than the wayward father. "Wild Bill" serves more as the deus ex machina than anything else: he steps in to save the day in the end, but it's too pat for my tastes- and the bar fight LOOKS like a carefully choreographed bar fight. The real star of this movie is Will Poulter as Dean, the eldest of Bill's two sons. When Dad is released from jail and delivered drunk to the flat where the two boys are squatting, he comes around and groggily wonders, "Where am I...?" Dean responds: "That's funny- been wondering the same thing for the past eight years." He doesn't want anything from his old man but his name on a form that will allow the two siblings to remain in the flat. Bill: "I felt bad about missin' your birthday." "Oh, yeah?" Dean counters: "Which one...?" When someone calls him a runaway, Dean sets her straight: "I didn't run away from home, all right? Home ran away from ME." Had the filmmakers focused more on the kids than the "father," I'd rate WILD BILL a ten. Although the ending is great, it's the aforementioned lack of Proper Focus that makes it less than it might've been.

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shejiang1019

1.I must admit that this British movie make my long and black night smooth and gender, because you can see the process of love, gender and growing up in this movie, especially the characters in this movie are carving so lovely, deeply,realistically and vividly. Bill was portrayed so well, within restraining his behavior and following the rules as a rightful person, even though there is a monster in his mind.2. This movie makes me feel smooth and comfortable, especially when you feel the fathers' deep and warm heart to their son. It is really good and happy to see a separating family reunion together after the process from distrust to trust, the angry face to sending coffee slinking to his father, the decision of leaving to a new city to staying with their children. These beautiful story and scene really make me resonate with this special British movie. 3. The good movie doesn't need strong or immense story structure, but it is really important to find the right position of the movie and build a great story based on this position. For example, if the director focuses on the tender feeling side of the story, the fighting scene and the angry and revenge showing after teasing for a long time could be regarded as bedding to the tender side , within dealing as beyond endurance and fearing to the reality and losing their children. 4. Actually this is a tight and realistic movie, especially when Bill would rather admit his feeble to the leader of the gangster in front of his children and realistic happy ending is supported by this movie, because Bill was taken by the police,within a big smile when he saw his children and family waiting for him. The happy mood at that moment was shown by comparison by Bill talked the story to his children that he was bullied in the prison.

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adityamurti79

What do you do when you come back home after serving time, and find your children abandoned by their mother, fending for themselves in their apartment. What do you do, when to add to your miseries the social service gives you one final warning to either mend your ways, or lose your family forever.I can't say much about us, but Wild Bill Hayward (Charlie Creed-Miles) works as a human signpost. He can't risk it and wants to set the broken pieces right. His elder son Dean (Will Poulter) is a no nonsense guy. A tough life in the absence of his parents has made him being worked up all the time.But the crown goes to Jimmy (Sammy Williams) who is the sweetest kid in the block, and is successfully, and willingly lured by the drug peddlers, and the local drug dealer. He is the one who seems to have inherited his father's genes perhaps. But Bill knows that he has to fight back. He has to keep Jimmy out of harms way, and in his mission, he is arrested again for breaking the terms of the parole.The story of the film is good, but the way it has been scripted and has been shot makes that difference, and makes it a winner.Two classy scenes that's a must watch. The scene where Bill makes a paper airplane and propels it to take a wonderful flight from his balcony much to the delight of Jimmy.The second one is the last scene, when he tells the cop as he is about to be driven away on the police car. "They are my boys. I am their dad", and then he cries almost inconsolably. I still feel that powerful emotion while I am writing this review.It's a must watch movie that would remind you of the style in Tyrannosaur and most of the attitude in Attack the Block. Go for it.Indiekaleidoscope

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Andrei Lukyanov

On the one hand, I loved the story. Irresponsible father reconnecting with his family and cleaning up the children's mess. But on the other hand he got busted in the end by law enforcers. Hey, are those law enforcers really so lawless? The law, I would like to hope, tries to be more humane and those who enforce it are put there to compensate its flaws. That what is usually praised in the films. As in 'Derailed', 'The Departed', let alone other innumerable examples. In those films police, when stumbles upon a conflict between the written law and justice, looks into the situation and makes a just choice. In 'Wild Bill' law enforcement is shown as some inhuman, mechanical force, careless of justice. And it cannot be even communicated with. They are just there and act as if they are robots. They represent some higher, inanimate power, or is it just safe for me to think of them as of something inanimate, because if I had believed that they are real alive people, it would destroy my worldview? I think that is why no one of police officers is ever shown in the film. Because no one would ever believe that human beings can act like this. All this reminds me of Dostoevski books, in which the author always puts characters in some totally unrealistic situations that make them to make hard decisions, to choose the less of two evils. Situations like the one Bill was put in. Such stories are very sob-inducing, hence are considered to be powerful stuff by readers and viewers. So that what 'Wild Bill' essentially is. A sob-inducing machine. I do not like that. I feel manipulated and stripped of my time. Although, I liked the acting.

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