i watched this on telly, but it was still good enough for me to not change channel, i like Danny Dyer films, as they usually have some fun in them. very few laughs in this one.problems with script spoiler alert!! 1.the raid where they steal the money from the drug dealers , is OK, except why didn't the cops follow them, at least with a helicopter, they would never have got away in the transit van in London.2.when Danny's mate tells him where manning is, its obviously a set up3.the barrister would be protected.4. the armed police wouldn't have shot Monroe when he gave up.5.Danny was shot in the neck, ,but later gets up and runs away.6.i wont go on, but its a bit like this all the way through.and yet i still enjoyed it, and would watch it again. but its no 'death wish'

Here we go,here we go,here we go...it all kicks off when psycho Northern para (Mr S.Bean - trying hard not to laugh)gets among the Cockneys(chirpy as personified by Mr D.Dyer or miserable as personified by Mr B.Hoskins)and stirs 'em up with his Northern grit and turns them into a bloodthirsty lynch mob in about two minutes flat.A little longer in the case of the high - profile defence barrister who wants to avenge his murdered wife and child (the way high - profile defence barristers do). Even by the standards of Britcrim films,"Outlaw" is pretty dreadful. It looks as if it has been shot through a pair of polaroid sunglasses,the jerky "gritty" camera work is severely overdone and the villains are about as menacing as my Aunt Peggy.It takes more than being bald and swearing a lot to make a real hard man. Mr Hoskins plays a copper who after 25 years in the job gets a posting driving a Lawyer about then moans....most coppers I knew would have been bloody delighted after a quarter of a century in the front line to get a break for the last few years..but our Bob is gung - ho to the end which isn't long in coming when his desire to put villains away puts him in the path of a bent senior officer who is in the pay of uber crim Manning,a sort of Moriarty figure for the 21st century,sitting in the middle of a web of crime covering all of London.Yeah,right. Clearly not believers in the Eastern adage "Revenge is a dish best tasted cold",Mr Bean and his Cockney cohorts set about righting a few wrongs and some of them soon get the taste for cold - blooded sadistic mega violence which of course makes them no better than their victims (pretty profound stuff,eh?) and in the end it all goes tits up for them when they're cornered like the rats they are by Old Bill who cold bloodedly put them down like the dogs they are etc etc etc....even the nice defence counsel after he has thrown his gun away and surrendered. Don't mess with the Met seems to be the message here. There is a not very surprising surprise ending and we can all go home remembering not to make eye contact with any bald - headed Cockneys we might encounter on the way.And watch out for that smelly dosser - he might be ex Special Forces and know 25 different ways to kill you.although in my experience one is all it takes.

OUTLAW must be one the most deeply misunderstood movies iv encountered, not one single reviewer here has mentioned the whole point of the film is a modern day Robbin hood parable a deeply cynical and sarcastic film. Sean Bean plays the Robbin hood a man trained to kill by the state who has returned home from fighting an unwinnable war in Afghanistan to find no thanks no heroes homecoming just mocked and shut out of society he like all too many of British war vets winds up living out of a bag and ends up in a bed an breakfast where he begins to recruit his band of similarly merry men and they all head off to their sharewood forest to take on the establishment. Basiclly the film is asking what if robin hood was real and happened in todays society ? I think after the recent Raul Moats case here in england the film and the characters make a lot more "sense" certainly not a classic and not without its problems but worth a look all the same.

This script seems like a perfect blend of ideas taken from The Daily Mail and The Guardian.That might appear a contradictory statement but I'll explain.The basic premise consists of the most gruesome headlines one would expect from a tabloid. The 'no respect for war heroes', murder of unborn babies, random street violence etc.But it then is hamstrung by political correctness. All the villains are conveniently white, for example, while the 'outlaws' are a mixed bag including a gay and a black barrister who implausibly turns out to be a Muslim later on.Other trendy but annoying gimmicks such as shaky camera work and anaemic looking colours will also please Guardian readers.This group I have dubbed the mild bunch, since despite the huge provocation, they generally just stand around with smouldering looks on their faces, saying "I can't do this". The exception to this is a CCTV operator and small-time voyeur, who although he has not received any violence himself, takes to dishing it out like a trooper. Oh and he's a bigot. Being a bigot apparently makes him worthier of being executed than a paedophile and murderer since he is mysterious hanged by Sean Bean (the gang leader) while the gang looks on, shortly after they let off from the same fate a known paedophile and the murderer of the black barrister's baby.This paedophile then murders Bob Hoskins, a police informant who has been helping the gang, although how he knows about Hoskins is not explained. So the gang hang their own member knowing full well that the police will find him and that will lead them to the gang? This film makes no sense.Although it starts promisingly, it soon descends into clichés including appalling dialogue which generally includes the C-word in every sentence.It is a pity because crime is now a serious issue in Britain and a good film on the subject is sorely needed.