I went to see this film with a couple of friends one of which had read all the books. I had seen Essex Boys but not Return of the Foot Soldier and was quite looking forward to this film.
I love gangster films and obviously being a bit of an Essex boy and been to the places mentioned in the film in the early nineties was quite looking forward to this film.
However I was absolutely disappointed. Although the acting was just about OK but not entirely believable the depiction of 90's Essex is nothing short of atrocious.
The night club Raquels was a big night club in basildon essex but in the film it looks like a bar out of Neighbours. The fashions were a cross between 80's and the noughties. At not one point in the film did I feel I was in the 90's. The fashions were all wrong. Blokes were wearing suits or tucked in shirts (this would have no doubt got you a good seeing too in 90's Essex but was considered normal in the film) and no curtains in sight. The women were wearing heavy 80's makeup, tight tops short skirts and platform stilettos...I don't remember that in the 90's it was more cover your self up baggy tops, bobbed hair, bell bottoms and clumpy shoes! Even the scenes on Southend Pier included modern infrastructure that was never around in the 90's.
Overall it was just about watchable but whoever was responsible for the depiction of 90's Essex should have been taken away in a 'K' reg Range Rover and shot!
I love gangster films and obviously being a bit of an Essex boy and been to the places mentioned in the film in the early nineties was quite looking forward to this film.
However I was absolutely disappointed. Although the acting was just about OK but not entirely believable the depiction of 90's Essex is nothing short of atrocious.
The night club Raquels was a big night club in basildon essex but in the film it looks like a bar out of Neighbours. The fashions were a cross between 80's and the noughties. At not one point in the film did I feel I was in the 90's. The fashions were all wrong. Blokes were wearing suits or tucked in shirts (this would have no doubt got you a good seeing too in 90's Essex but was considered normal in the film) and no curtains in sight. The women were wearing heavy 80's makeup, tight tops short skirts and platform stilettos...I don't remember that in the 90's it was more cover your self up baggy tops, bobbed hair, bell bottoms and clumpy shoes! Even the scenes on Southend Pier included modern infrastructure that was never around in the 90's.
Overall it was just about watchable but whoever was responsible for the depiction of 90's Essex should have been taken away in a 'K' reg Range Rover and shot!