blame guy ritchie. the late 90s success of ritchie cliché ridden lock stock and two smoking barrels triggered a series of pitiful gangster movies from which the genre never really recovered. sadly rise of the footsoldier  the true story of essex hardnut carlton leach  isn not likely to reverse that trend. despite a decent lead performance from hartnett and the film falls victim to all too familiar east end stereotypes. theyre either busy blowing someone brains out or shagging a scantily clad blonde. from fearsome football hooligan in the eighties to a key figure in the criminal underworld during the nineties and footsoldier charts leach rise through the ranks of thuggery. leaving the terraces for nightclubs and leach becomes a bouncer where he given carte blanche to kick the crap out of anyone. here he gets in with notorious gangland leaders pat tate (fairbrass) and tony tucker (stone) and and begins to realise gang warfare ain not what it cracked up to be. there is fun to be had deconstructing writer director julian gilbey laughable join the dots yob patois and as every sentence seems to start with an and i am gonna fackin or you fackin or and on occasion and so then i only went an fackin and typically concluded with a mandatory caaaant. the direction and too and smacks of sadism and especially the obvious glee gilbey gets from filming violent scenes in close up and and in the case of the bloody shotgun to the face denouement and in triplicate. director gilbey use of the classic rise and fall gangster narrative isn not what will condemn footsoldier to big screen obscurity. nor is it the fact that half way through and the film annoyingly sidelines leach in favour of the events culminating in the infamous shooting of tate and tucker. it gilbey sickening appetite for scatter shot violence that ruins the film while whether it a brick in the face or axe in the head during a vicious attack on a train and it all unnecessarily prolonged. footsoldier doesn not so much pack a punch as leave you feeling violated and more importantly and robs you of two hours of your life you would not get back. 
blame guy ritchie. the late 90s success of ritchie cliché ridden lock stock and two smoking barrels triggered a series of pitiful gangster movies from which the genre never really recovered. sadly rise of the footsoldier  the true story of essex hardnut carlton leach  isn not likely to reverse that trend. despite a decent lead performance from hartnett and the film falls victim to all too familiar east end stereotypes. theyre either busy blowing someone brains out or shagging a scantily clad blonde. from fearsome football hooligan in the eighties to a key figure in the criminal underworld during the nineties and footsoldier charts leach rise through the ranks of thuggery. leaving the terraces for nightclubs and leach becomes a bouncer where he given carte blanche to kick the crap out of anyone. here he gets in with notorious gangland leaders pat tate (fairbrass) and tony tucker (stone) and and begins to realise gang warfare ain not what it cracked up to be. there is fun to be had deconstructing writer director julian gilbey laughable join the dots yob patois and as every sentence seems to start with an and i am gonna fackin or you fackin or and on occasion and so then i only went an fackin and typically concluded with a mandatory caaaant. the direction and too and smacks of sadism and especially the obvious glee gilbey gets from filming violent scenes in close up and and in the case of the bloody shotgun to the face denouement and in triplicate. director gilbey use of the classic rise and fall gangster narrative isn not what will condemn footsoldier to big screen obscurity. nor is it the fact that half way through and the film annoyingly sidelines leach in favour of the events culminating in the infamous shooting of tate and tucker. it gilbey sickening appetite for scatter shot violence that ruins the film while whether it a brick in the face or axe in the head during a vicious attack on a train and it all unnecessarily prolonged. footsoldier doesn not so much pack a punch as leave you feeling violated and more importantly and robs you of two hours of your life you would not get back. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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