Bonded by Blood (2010) Reviews

• bonded by blood is terrible

  birdman992010-09-05

  I am so disappointed just travelled 65 miles to see this garbage. The movie has some good actors in it yet none of them show a ounce of any of they true talent.The story is poorly put together and doesn't really follow a theme or character from start to finish. The main focus is sniffing drugs and swearing and believe me there had a good true story to work on,Tammer Hussein who is a good actor when he puts it on was crap as pat Tate,Craig fairbrass makes him look like harry potter.This film makes you cringe at nearly every scene. Overall not worth a 2nd thought.When will someone pull there finger out and give us another ROTFS or the business type film. To be truthful i think never......

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• Yawn

  Jnoirnoir10322011-11-04

  How many times will low budget tales about these Essex lads need to be told. The film made no effort to show anything other than the tough guy 'gangster' side of Tucker or Tate. They were thoroughly unlikeable, and whilst Hassan gives a decent performance, I still couldn't care less about the fate of his gobby bully. Stone, meanwhile fares less well. Not sure what this guys background is, but he's not a very convincing tough guy. I think he has a slight speech impediment which may have been a character choice, but it didn't seem right for the part. I didn't believe him at all, and he only really seems to have one emotion. Angry swearing. The direction is competent without ever being very imaginative, and the film does seem to have been put together quite well, zipping along at a good old pace. It's not a terrible film, it's just not really very interesting. It's been done better, many times, before. There is a very clear market for these films, and I guess whilst this obsession with cockney geezers remains we can expect more offerings like this one. Shame.

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• foul language, tough guys, hot chicks, dangerous drugs, big guns, oh, and a Porche for good measure

  steventraves2013-02-17

  As someone whose taste in cinema does not usually run to much violence, choice language or blood (vampires excepted); I really enjoyed this film! No mere fest of foul language, tough guys, hot chicks, dangerous drugs, big guns, oh, and a Porche for good measure - although it's all there - "Bonded by Blood" has much more going for it. Cleverly directed by Sacha Bennett, this film has excellent touches of visual humour, some very funny lines, and a number of intense performances. There is even a Shakespeare reference - but don't let that put you off! Tamer Hassan as Pat Tate, high on cocaine and drunk on machismo is superbly scary. You have to duck when he starts pumping out the expletives. Altogether a much classier offering than previous efforts in this genre.

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• Pleasantly surprised

  djkbee2012-12-24

  Im not understanding all the bad reviews here. I think to watch this movie for a start you need to have the acquired taste of east-end London cockney slang and gangster culture (drugs, sex and a lot of the word c**t) I was sceptical about this one... i kind of gave up with anything Tamar Hassan is in due to the disappointing movie releases he has had since The Business by Nick Love. I watched the likes of city Rats for example and was shocked he would take part in such a crap movie after the success of the Business. I feel like Tamar Hassan has been trying to get that 'right movie' of the cockney gangster that works well and has failed until this one! I saw this on Netflix so on a rainy day gave it a go with super low expectations expecting to turn off by the quarter way through mark. I was wrong, i was hooked on this one. Had a good few laughs at the raging scenes which are full of colourful language and i thought the storyline was enough to keep me watching. Stunned at all the bad reviews on here.

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• Did they do any scene research?

  raveydaveygravey2010-09-09

  I went to see this film with a couple of friends one of which had read all the books. I had seen Essex Boys but not Return of the Foot Soldier and was quite looking forward to this film. I love gangster films and obviously being a bit of an Essex boy and been to the places mentioned in the film in the early nineties was quite looking forward to this film. However I was absolutely disappointed. Although the acting was just about OK but not entirely believable the depiction of 90's Essex is nothing short of atrocious. The night club Raquels was a big night club in basildon essex but in the film it looks like a bar out of Neighbours. The fashions were a cross between 80's and the noughties. At not one point in the film did I feel I was in the 90's. The fashions were all wrong. Blokes were wearing suits or tucked in shirts (this would have no doubt got you a good seeing too in 90's Essex but was considered normal in the film) and no curtains in sight. The women were wearing heavy 80's makeup, tight tops short skirts and platform stilettos...I don't remember that in the 90's it was more cover your self up baggy tops, bobbed hair, bell bottoms and clumpy shoes! Even the scenes on Southend Pier included modern infrastructure that was never around in the 90's. Overall it was just about watchable but whoever was responsible for the depiction of 90's Essex should have been taken away in a 'K' reg Range Rover and shot!

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