Given the mainstream critical reception deriding the film as ‘Green Street but without that guy from Lord of the Rings’ and a film ‘that robs you of two hours of your life’, not many would have backed this particular horse. Outline: It's 1997, two years after the infamous Essex Boys murders and Carlton Leach is convinced the men responsible for gunning down Tony Tucker, Pat Tate and Craig Rolfe are still out there and he could be next. Now 5 years since it's release revisit the terraces of the east end with the new Limited Extreme Extended Edition Steelbook, featuring over 20 minutes of all new extreme footage and an all new commentary and interview with visionary Director Julian Gilbey.

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Notorious gangster, Pat Tate, rises through the ranks of Essex's criminal underworld, and battles rival drug dealers, vicious prison inmates and gets double-crossed by drug lord Frank Harris. It is three decades of his life following him from football hooliganism, through to his burgeoning career as a bouncer, his involvement in the criminal aspects of the early 'rave' scene and subsequently to his rise to power as one of the most feared and respected criminals in the country.Seriously though, if you like hard-boiled, brutal, gripping "TOUGH GUY" cinema, you will enjoy this. Gangster movies always seem to be popular, whether it be the American style film like The Godfather, Goodfellas or Scarface that almost romanticise the world of organised crime, or the British style which its emphasis on the cheeky “cockney” feel with a reliance on heavy levels of violence or then there is the style that takes the route of the football hooligan led into the world of organised crime as an extension of the violent world they live in.

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Especially in this Extreme Extended Edition we are given a version of events that is high on the violence quota, high on the drugs and high on the sex. Paul can often be found on Twitter talking about his favourite movies, games, technology and books when he is not reviewing them and adding news to Pissed Off Geek. Suffering nightmarish flashbacks, Leach hides weapons in every nook and cranny of the family home as his drink and drug enhanced paranoia takes hold and his expectation of an attempt on his life reaches boiling point.SignatureUK will be releasing an remastered RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER: Extreme Edition on Digital Platforms 3rd February 2023, including more sex, more guns, more violence and 20 minutes more footage. The acting in Rise of the Footsoldierat times is quite hit and miss at times, some scenes lack the power that is required but there are certain actors who do rise to the occasion to instil their characters with just the right amount of malice. But Harris is long dead and the middle-man Terry Fisher (Andrew Loveday) offers Pat the biggest drug deal of his life.

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But Harris is long dead and the middle man Terry Fisher offers Pat the biggest drug deal of his life. RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER II was one of the most eagerly awaited British Gangster film sequels in years, it’s more grown up and certainly much darker than the first film, visually it looks stunning and lovers of the British Gangster film genre will love it.We will introduce you exclusively to Newpay finance products provided by NewDay Limited under this Introducer Appointed Representative arrangement. All Tony wants is to make it back in time to support his best friend Nigel Benn at the boxing match of his life.