We Still Kill the Old Way (2014)

Too much of everything

Strong and Moving!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Low budget British gangster films,with a few exceptions,are generally pretty ropy affairs,and I thought I was gonna be in for more of the same,until I saw that Dave Courtney wasn't in it,and gave it a chance.The old guard teaching the new kids how gangland used to be is a good premise.Imagine the Kray twins and the Richardsons administering their own brand of street justice on the young hooded rats terrorizing the streets of the UK now,and you have an idea of what to expect.The elderly gangsters have a nice mix of menace and charm.The young street punks are suitably vile and will have any viewer,no matter how straight-laced,rooting for the aged hard-men.Even the accents used by the young hoods will have viewers wishing terrible retribution on them.The writer(as per his previous romp'Vendetta')seems to like to dabble in sexual violence,perhaps to further enforce that the viewer is utterly revolted by the antagonists of his work.If that's the case then it worked.The female cop looks like a porn star,and the old girl who is the former sometime moll looks suitably like a former glamorous hostess who's been trodden into despair by the decline of the old manor.My only other niggle...and it's a personal one.Ian Ogilvy gives a great performance as the Elderly,but dashing old gangster,but you realize in his heyday as crime-lord of the manor he would've been that suave,debonair and drop dead handsome Simon Templar of the late 70s,and it's difficult to imagine him as he was then being a gangster.

this couldn't be any worse if Vinnie Jones or Danny Dyer was in it. complete dross old-fashioned London gangster flick; even the actor from 'confessions of a window cleaner' is in it - unbelievable!heard this before ? old skool hardmen teach young guns a lesson....Zzzzzshoddy low level acting, this film is really bad and has been written very quickly indeed. someone from Eastenders is also in it - don't need to say anymore reallyAVOID

Not going to rehash the plot line but my expectations were minimal at first but the movie surprised me. But then again i'm an old fart like the protagonist and i've been around the street a few times myself mates.Sit back and enjoy the relationship between these former bad boys reunited to avenge the death of one of their own. It's brimming with hilarity.Might not be your cup of tea but i enjoyed the show. Of course you'll be cheering for the lads to give those ruffians a good thrashing.Happy viewing.Cheers!

It's a nice if not original idea, bolstered by good perts from the two main protagonists and a decent supporting cast. The script's the problem and as William H. Macy pointed out, that makes for an insurmountable problem. The movie begins well enough, certainly well enough to make you think it's going to be an interesting ride. We watch Ian Ogilvy and Danny-boy Hatchard in their respective territories and we know we're heading for conflict. Then there's Stephen Berkoff and things are looking up. And that's as good as it gets. We lose Berkoff and we're back to a more simple film but that's OK. What's not OK is the lack of audience empathy that it demonstrates. Berkoff's way too interesting to introduce and then lose within a few short minutes. And that lack of empathy continues. There's a scene, actually a couple of scenes, in which the old school gangsters torture the new kids on the block. Trust me, you really want them to suffer. And they do, just not enough. We're left wanting and that need is never satisfied because from that point the film takes a turn for the worse. Basic scriptwriting rules are abandoned and any vestigial connection with reality, or even the reality of the world of this film, is broken. By the end, you really don't care. But this flick still thinks it has one card up its sleeve. A final scene that references The Italian Job. Oh, please!