The Guvnors

2014

CrimeThriller

The Guvnors is a violent thriller set amongst the clans and firms of South East London, bringing two generations together in brutal conflict.

"Revenge is its own executioner"

Rating

5.2
66 votes

Popularity

0.8818

Origin & Countries

GB | en | United Kingdom

Production

Fulwell 73 Productions,DP Films,Creativity Capital

Runtime

95 min.

Status

Released

Release: 6/24/2014

Credits

The Guvnors

Gabe TurnerDirector

The Guvnors

Harley SylvesterAdam

The Guvnors

Doug AllenMitch

The Guvnors

Jay SimpsonNeil

The Guvnors

Charley Palmer RothwellTrey

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

11/27/2022

5 / 10

We start with gang leader "Adam" (Harley Sylvester) proving who's the boss to the neighbours. A brutal and violent man, he then proceeds to visit a boozer that used to be the haunt of the legendary "Guvnors" where he comes off slightly worse at the hands of the elderly " Mickey" (David Essex). Humiliated, he exacts his revenge and soon the two gangs are heading for a rumble with his newly invigorated opponents led by "Mitch" (Doug Allen). Now had this just stayed on the path of a nasty, vicious, tale of gangland power-struggling, then it might just have been passable. It doesn't! It introduces some frankly ridiculous familial sub-plots and delivers these and the overall narrative via some pretty static dialogue and some even worse acting performances. Sylvester just has no menace to him at all, whatever the expletives are that emanative from his scarred face. Maybe I just recall him too much as the quiet one from "Rizzle Kicks" a bit here, but he is just unremarkable. No more so, it has to be said, than the equally unconvincing "Mitch" whose character reminded me of someone from "Green Street" (2005). It can't have had much of a budget, and the production and editing look the product of basic, single-camera, assemble direction that seems determined to shock us into appreciation rather than engage us with any of these, frankly rather odious, individuals. Maybe it is indicative of aspects of East London life, but presented this way I couldn't honestly say I cared about any of them up to and after it's "West Side Story" style denouement.

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