War hero Robert Miller (Toby Kebbell) returns from Afghanistan haunted and finds his London neighborhood overrun by drug-dealer Tyrone Jones. His friend Fahad fears that his little brother Ryan is falling under Jones' control. Jones tries to recruit Miller to teach his thugs combat tactics and harasses him. Miller's war buddy Danny Turner introduces him to his older half-brother Chris. They introduce him to mysterious government agent Gerry Langdon (Brian Cox) who is tracking possible Islamic terrorists. Alayna Wallace is a confidential informer who has stopped contact for some reason. Miller is able to reconnect with her as a terrorist plot is revealed.This is a small British action thriller. I really like its grim look and sparse vision. There's more than enough plot for a movie but they insist on adding an unnecessary twist. The terrorist conspiracy twist has been done over and over again. It adds nothing but logic problems. I like the drug crime story and the final shootout is terrific. Having Brian Cox around adds gravitas. This is interesting but a little simplifying would be useful.

Some sad, thoughtful and speechless English guy, supposedly Veteran, returns home (from somewhere) and submerges into strange investigation of the plans of some obscure terrorists and confrontation with local criminal with his own little army of gangsters.Storyline is in truth a combination of two tales (about terrorists and about gangsters), it is a complete mess, unconvincing and boring, neither terrifying, nor violent. It is very slow paced and all the action is accumulated in the last 5 or 10 minutes. Finale is well worth the film - senseless and flat.Cannot recommend it to anybody, 3/10 just for the fact I watched it till the end (will never again believe to the reviews so very inconsistent with main (low) rating)...

A soldier returns to The World only to be promptly recruited by some shoddy spy outfit to keep tabs on a terrorist, while gang-bang scum on his housing estate hustle to be the main story.And that's what's wrong with this: it's neither thriller nor drama, as we follow the superb lead follow people around and check in on his neighbour, while not a lot really happens (yet my attention was, bizarrely given that fact, firmly held).By the time the ending rolls around, I was a touch confused that I'd missed something, so luckily one off the characters gave a Bond-villain-esque speech to clue me in, which was tantamount to the writers saying, "We didn't make it clear via clues what's been going on, so let us explain..." The realism then goes out of the window as the film turns into Deathwish 3, for a predictable ending that only serves to leave a bad taste in one's mouth.If you like British independent films, you could watch worse, but due to aimless plotting, you could certainly see better too.

Just watched this via Netflix. I am veteran as well, so was curious about this. Startling in its realism. Both action wise and its message. Very entertaining for an action-drama. Like Brian Cox here. All other actors did a sufficient job. The messages portrayed here, really hit home.The war has just begun. Live by the sword. Die by the sword. A line uttered by Alayna re: Al-Quaida, will be most disturbing to most, but is very accurate. Langdon scoffing at the remark, later confirms the statement to Miller towards the end, about the need for world domination via terror. (9/11, 7/7, Mumbai, etc.)A brutal display of life in the intelligence community. A must see for all that can stomach the real world, as it really is.