Rise of the Footsoldier - The Ultimate Collection Parts 1-4 [DVD]

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a b "Winners at the 4th annual National Film Awards UK 2019". National Film Awards . Retrieved 29 March 2018. a b "Rise of the Footsoldier: Part II Awards". IMDb (index only). 5 April 2016 . Retrieved 5 September 2023. I do like Craig Fairbrass ever since his Prime Suspect days when he was great and he's still got it. He's big and tough but he can also act. What you usually get with these films is the first two and nothing of the third. He is class. It takes him nearly an hour to make his first appearance but its worth it as he livens up the screen. He's soon followed by Utopia's Neil Maskell which is another plus in my books.

As of now, it is has not been confirmed whether Vengeance is intended to be the final film in the series. Winners at the 6th annual National Film Awards UK 2021". National Film Awards . Retrieved 2 July 2021. Campbell, Laura (5 April 2016). "2016 National Film Awards UK winners announced". The National Post . Retrieved 13 June 2019.Rise of the Footsoldier Part II: Reign of the General Box Office". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved 22 September 2023.

Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance is a strange one. It might be the best directed, shot and acted film of the series. Despite suffering a touch from its toned-down form, for a franchise six movies deep and desperate to avoid becoming stale, it's a welcome change in direction. If you're new to the series, there's no guarantee this will convert you and you probably do need a working knowledge of Rise of the Footsoldier: Marbella and Origins to properly understand the ending. But for those who are well-versed in the king of Southend's exploits, it's a solid detective film with well crafted action sequences. Akinbola, Daniel (14 September 2023). "Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance (Film Review)". Filmhounds . Retrieved 19 September 2023. After a robbery gone wrong, Pat Tate's partner in crime Kenny (Josh Myers) decides to pursue a side hustle with boxer-by-day/drag-queen-by-night Billy the Kid (Ben Wilson). However, the pair are double-crossed, resulting in a violent death that unleashes Pat Tate and his murderous vengeance on the streets of 1990's Soho. Signature Films I see the first film was released in cinemas, but most of the others since have been for home release only, until the 2021 movie, Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins, which saw it return to the big screen. And why not, given that it’s a British movie, and there’s so much American guff coming to the screens lately, that it’s time for some home-grown talent.

Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins

And who would've thought that the most macho franchise in British cinema would dip its toe — probably more of a toenail — into exploring queer identity and 90's drag culture? Vengeance is not a treatise on queer identity, but it's a nice inclusion amongst the shotguns, stabbings and liberal use of the c-word nonetheless. Rise of the Footsoldier: Vengeance is the sixth film in a franchise of which I’ve been aware, but never seen before.

Chambers, Catherine (2 September 2007). "Rise of the Footsoldier". BBC Online . Retrieved 18 September 2014.

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I didn't expect much from this fictionalised story of Carlton Leach. I only watched it because he was himself fictionally portrayed in Jake Arnott's third novel "truecrime" where he was the character called "Geezer Gary." I have just finished rereading his trilogy, and while truecrime is quite poor, the first two books are very good. Arnott mixes real-life people in with wholly fictional characters and most importantly, his versions of real life people. So, we have "Ruby Ryder" who is obviously Barbara Windsor and "Lord Teddy Thursby" who is obviously Lord Boothby and in truecrime we have "Gaz Kelly" who is obviously Carlton Leach. Rise Of The Footsoldier Origins: The story behind cult Essex films spawned by notorious triple gangland murder". Sky News . Retrieved 19 April 2022. The film follows what was written about in truecrime very closely. I was very impressed with the football hooliganism scenes that make up the first portion of the film. I haven't watched "Awaydays" though it is a favourite book of mine (and it's because I love the book so much that I can't bring myself to watch the adaptation) but every other single film I have watched that features football (aka "soccer" for our trans-Atlantic friends) hooliganism gets it so very wrong. Green Street and The Football Factory and Top Dog are just laughably bad. I must watch I.D. again as I love Warren Clarke. This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labour of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being covered here wouldn't exist. This is the sixth instalment in this very British, peripheral gangster franchise set in the 1990s, and maybe I’m going soft but it feels like the quality of the film-making has gone up a skoosh since the last effort, Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins. There is still a lot of repetitive fighting, stabbing and killing sequences – the fans wouldn’t watch if there weren’t – but this time round the script by Andrew Loveday and Jason Maza has more focus and dramatic heft. There’s less crude misogyny (although ladies in lingerie still abound on the fringes of the screen thanks to scenes set in strip clubs), and there’s even an outright queer-sympathetic plot line about a boxer named Billy the Kid (Ben Wilson) who moonlights as a drag queen but is afraid to tell his butch Scottish dad (Stephen McCole).