Gutsycurene
Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.
StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Hattie
I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Scott Thompson
I nominate this film for worst voice-over narration of all time. Director/star Frank Harper sounds like he has been forced to read out the phone book in its entirety. Talk about sleepwalking through a project, and it's his own bleeding film, guvnor. Now, Harper is no Danny Dyer, he more than looks the part when playing the London hard man and has been used to good effect by directors like Nick Love and Shane Meadows. Unfortunately, here he's directing himself in the sort of vanity project that would only get funded by the British film industry. He's recruited a veritable who's who of crap gangster and football hooligan films for St George's Day. And Keeley Hazell who gives one of the worst performances ever committed to celluloid. This truly awful effort takes you into a world of Peckham melts, ageing hooligans who keep going on about the war even though they've never been near one, uncharismatic, perma-tanned villains with a hard on for Churchill and cretinous hanger ons, just there to keep the idiotic plot ticking along. What do you mean, no thanks mate! This film is awesome in its crapness. It has no sense of its own absurdity, takes itself very seriously and is all the funnier for it. The only disappointment is that Danny Dyer doesn't turn up and glass a slag. Let's have a sequel please, set on Christmas Day!
bowmanblue
You probably know Frank Harper from pretty much every British gangster film (he was 'Dog' in Lock Stock). Now, he's taken to writing and directing one of his own. St George's Day tells the story of two London gangsters who lose a shipment of drugs that belong to the Russian Mafia and have to pull off a heist to get the money to pay it back.Yes, it's hardly an inspired plot, but, when you watch it, you'll soon realise that that's the least of its problems. Frank Harper narrates pretty much the whole way through, giving his 'patriotic' thoughts and opinions on the story, plus introducing every character along the way. And there are many. Every other scene has a new gangster who gets his own intro from Frank, most of which are hardly seen again in the film.Unfortunately, St George's Day utilises every cliché in the book. Every line sounds like someone doing a bad impression of what they think a cockney would say. After a while, you start to wonder how quite a talented bunch of actors were ever roped into this film to begin with. I say 'talented actors' as most of them are. However, this doesn't apply to former Page 3 girl turned 'actress' Keeley Hazell. She is truly wooden beyond belief.St George's Day brings nothing new to the genre of gangster films. It's clichéd, boring, overly-long and just bad. One to avoid. Stick with Lock Stock and Snatch.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/
Mr N J Gash
Director Debut from Frank Harper (whom i loved in Lock stock).In my first ever review (I joined IMDb JUST to review this film) all I can say is excellent.IF Frank had focused more on the heist, people would compare it to the Italian Job. He didn't - he focused on what British gangster movies do best, and why we love them:Kickings Violence Believable characters - though missed Danny Dyer in this, Frank - WTF? Underpinned that England is still a force to be reckoned withI loved this as much as the Football Factory - and (oh yes) Lock Stock.Frank - bring more of this, top notch saaaaaan
paulabjohnson
I watched this on Sky. Why do I mention that? because I had not even heard of this film until it appeared on the on demand section. This is not always a bad thing as we all now how some indie films can pass under the radar but more often than not this can set the alarm bells ringingwhere do I start?- as one other reviewer mentions it has a monotone narration and the characters are on dimensional at best. the film manages to contain a ridiculous amount of London gangster film clichés with a weak plot.this film lacks the wit of a Guy Ritchie film or any of the gritty realism of the Long Good Friday or Get Carter. I really struggle to see how this film got made- i persisted in watching thinking that maybe it would get better ( surely it can't be this bad??) but it didn't.Avoid