Outlaw is the latest film from Nick Love, director of The Football Factory and the Business, these two films seem to pretty much have a love them or hate them vibe about it, both of these movies starred Danny Dyer, likewise people seem to love or hate him and now the two team up again for the third time along with Sean Bean and Bob Hoskins

Before I completely go into the main body of Outlaw, I have to stay the film as got a somewhat similar plot to a script I've been working on - Britain is in decay because of the gang culture, a group of people band together because they simple just can't take it anymore - my script is a little bit more tongue in cheek and clearly references movies like The Wild Bunch, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Untouchables and old kung flicks, but if my script was to be turned into a film, they'd be a fear of some sort of comparison, anyways, I digress...

Something about this movie just didn't click for me, there was some great photography and didn't have problem with some of the scenes, it just felt flat, the camera, which I'm assuming was intending to be almost hand held documentary in it's conception, ended up just mostly been annoying when it just properly couldn't stay still. Sean Bean's motivation for being the Outlaws, was never really explored properly - his he pissed at England, because he served time in the army and saw all them atrocities in far off countries, before coming home, finding his door locked and seeing through the window his girlfriend cozying up with another guy, Danny Dyer's and Lennie James motivations where much more clearler, Dyer constantly felt harrased and bullied in a lot of aspects of his life and James in the fact he was a barrister bullied into not going up against a gangland boss which eventually sees his pregnant wife stabbed

I didn't hate it, but didn't feel blown away by it - I wanted the ending to be The Wild Bunch, but felt it was more Hair Bare Bunch, there was just no spark, couple that with at times annoying camera work and sometimes a little bit serious feeling, it's a movie that just disappoints...

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