646f9e108c Through flashbacks, Full English Breakfast follows the violent career of Dave Bishop (Dave Courtney) a small-time London villain who kills his way to the top of Britain&#39;s drugs empire. Now happily &#39;retired&#39; on the Kent coast Dave becomes embroiled in a bloody battle of wits with Al Qaeda terrorists who want to take over his criminal empire. Adding to the old mobster&#39;s woes is his younger trophy wife (Lucy Drive) wanting to play away with his new driver (Jamie Bannerman). I&#39;m going to give some decent shout outs to the cast. But first, let&#39;s address the sound. It almost seems like they have had to re-dub the entire thing. This creates a weird effect where everyone is the same volume regardless of where they stand in the scene or if they are shouting, and the noise of eating breakfast is the same volumea gunshot. David Courtney does not put a foot wrong here, he&#39;s pretty magnetic. The film dies its death when left in the hands of the script not serving anything of substance to Jamie Bannerman and Lucy Drive. The script to support their forbidden romance just isn&#39;t there. They meet, there&#39;s an attraction, they kiss briefly later, and its made clear they had sex. But we never see any of the raw physical attraction that would make you want to risk your life for the other person. Which is such a waste because they are both clearly very attractive people and the films opportunity to turn sparks into fire is wasted but not allowing them to do either. David leads the charge for quality here, and admirably so. But he cannot raise the film up any higher, and his two co-stars are given nothing to use to help him do it. The people in charge of sound and script should take responsibility and learn from it. They let down a decent pool of talent here. After reading a few reviews it seemed to be a love it or hate it type of film either 10 stars or 1 star. So I bought it to watch and decide for myself. After the first few minutes, it&#39;s clear that this is a movie on a budget. The sound, acting, camera work, continuity, special fx, lighting and locations are all poor, I&#39;m going to mention the sound again because it really is terrible, especially the Afghanistan gun fight, which was clearly filmed on an industrial estate, the gunfire sounds like a 1960&#39;s wild west movie! There&#39;s nothing wrong with any of that, you buy a budget movie and expect exactly that. What gets my goat, is that I feel like I&#39;ve been tricked into buying a poor product which claims to be something it&#39;s not. It&#39;s incomparable to Scarfacethe cover claims.<br/><br/>This isn&#39;t proved, but I find it suspicious that most, if not all of the 10 star reviews are new accounts with only this film reviewed.<br/><br/>I gave this 3 starsthere are two plus points. Firstly, I&#39;m not a fan of swearing in films, this movie is easy on the ears, secondly, Dave Courtney fits the role and plays it very well, his performance shines through but it&#39;s not enough to counter balance the negative aspects of this film.<br/><br/>10/10 for effort, butfor cover hype, the possible fake reviews and using social media to push it like crack, poor show.<br/><br/>Buy it, watch it, feel disappointed, give the DVD to a charity shop and feel good knowing that a couple of quid will go towards helping someone less fortunate.
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