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The Crew:- A modern British gangster flick relocates from its usual East End stomping ground to Liverpool in this adaptation of Kevin Sampson's 2001 book 'Outlaws'
In the early 1970s, UK filmmakers looking to turn a box office profit had three major choices: blood curdling horror, limp sex farce or big screen sitcom spin-off. Three decades on and the Brit gangster flick tends to combine all of the above with the lucrative formula of violence, gags and knockers coining it in as a surely as a re-imagined Scarface with Benny Hill.

The Crew deserves some credit for attempting to distance itself from the glut of similar movies; the Liverpool setting immediately marks it out visually, while a lack of screwy antics ensures that we're never asked to regard lead characters as cheeky rascals. Sadly, it's this lack of humour that makes the film so hard to enjoy, leaving one wondering why we're supposed to care what happens to a bunch of vicious criminals who in this instance don't even look after their own.

The plot has a familiar set up with Ged (Scott Williams) heading a successful criminal gang and hoping to go legit, planning to sink his nest egg into a local property redevelopment scheme organised by a couple with whom his wife Deb (Cordelia Bugeja) has recently become friendly. This of course requires Ged to do one last job which bizarrely involves knocking over a delivery of PlayStations. Things are complicated by the murder of a bent copper, Eastern Europeans muscling in on the action and kid brother Ratter (Kenny Doughty) ready to betray Ged with some empire building of his own.
"A brutal, unsentimental thriller"

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