Skip over navigation

Sofa Cinema

Gifts - NEW  |   Help   |   Sign in

Outlaw - BLU-RAY Version (2007) Certificate 18

Outlaw - BLU-RAY Version
Play trailer

Sign up

Rated 3.0 stars
Average rating
(56%)
 
Starring: Sean Bean | Danny Dyer | Bob Hoskins | Lennie James | Rupert Friend | Sean Harris
Director: Nick Love
Studio: PATHE DISTRIBUTION
Run time: 105 mins
Genres: Action/Adventure
Languages: English
Hearing-impaired: English
Released: October 06, 2008
Also available on: Also Available on: DVD

A group of disillusioned citizens who have been the victims of crime decide to organise and take the law into their own hands. After returning to England after fighting in Iraq, Bryant (Sean Bean, THE LORD OF THE RINGS – THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING) relocates to London. He finds that the area he has moved to is in the grip of lawlessness. Fellow members of the community who have been subjected to criminal acts approach him and he decides to organise the men into a vigilante gang in order to restore justice to the streets. The gang, which includes Gene Dekker (Danny Dyer, THE FOOTBALL FACTORY) and three other members besides Bryant, are fed information on suitable targets by policeman Walter Lewis (Bob Hoskins, THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY), who has become frustrated at the state of affairs. Director Nick Love (THE BUSINESS) reunites with regular collaborator Danny Dyer to create this tale of urban frustration. Love’s central themes of manliness, rage and camaraderie are again explored here. Whereas previously Love focussed on football hooligans and members of organised crime, this time he attempts to gain greater empathy for his characters by making them the victims of crime. OUTLAW is a violent and brutal film that contains a message about the nature of vigilantism.

Highest rated reviews

2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 3 stars
Good but wont win awards

Mark Winter from Suffolk, 19th September, 2009

I really enjoyed this fillm, almost entirely because of the action and excitement. Some of the events would never in a million years happen in real life. For example would the barrister really join a vigilante group of thugs? However the film did a good job of trying to link consequences with actions. It pretty much does exactly what it says on the tin. If you like football factory or such films, then you will enjoy. I was tempted to rate 4 star, but settled on 3 soley because of the reasons for the band of thugs joining together. I think the cast list outside of Danny Dyer and Sean Bean should have been more muscular and thugish rather than a couple of weeds and a CCTV pervert.

Read all highest rated reviews

1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 2 stars
Meh.

poochini from , 23rd March, 2009

There were 21 reasons why i wanted to watch this movie. Number one was the cast, and the other 20 were the stars of merit on the front of the dvd case. I mean, a solid british cast, rave reviews plastered across the front. why would anyone not want to watch this? But after watching the film and then being compelled to examine the DVD case further,i discovered these reviews were not from Total film or Empire magazine. But from other highly acclaimed film critics such as 'Now' magazine, 'Womans Weekly',and 'Horse and hound UK'. (well, maybe not those exaxtly, but you get the point.) I like Danny Dyer, Sean bean and Bob Hoskins, and the idea for the story isnt half bad. But there's just no basis for a relationship to be built between the actors and audience. There was no depth to the characters, no one that you wanted to relate too. Dyer was a soft office boy who's tired of being pushed around, Beans a bad ass ex army type who's slightly aggreaved because he is outcast by the country he fought to protect, and Hoskins is a copper who wants to help. sounds like a great story really. But the characters just dont pull it together, They dont develop or learn anything. theyre the same all the way through. it gets quite tedious towards the end really. You want dyer to turn into a streetsmart thug who can look after himself, and bean to be an english Mr Miyagi teaching a bit of 'Wax on..', but it doesnt happen. Dont be fooled by these so called 'critics' and their stars. Im confident they only did this to get some easy publicity. If you want to see these 3 actors in a great film rent Football factory, The long good Friday, and er...Essex Boys?(or Lord of the rings depending on what tickles your pickle) and watch them all back to back. Becuse this film doesn't do their good names any justice.

Read all highest rated reviews

Rated 4 stars
Very Good Action Film

A Customer from Caernarfon, 2nd November, 2009

Sean Bean was great as always and the supporting actors were fantastic as well - very good british film!

Read all highest rated reviews

Rated 4 stars
Really good film

A Customer from Manchester, 6th July, 2009

Usually not my cup of tea but have to say this was a captivating film.

Read all highest rated reviews

Most recent reviews

Rated 2 stars
Outlaw: good film, strange camerawork

A Customer from Wallington, 5th July, 2009

The script is good, the actors are very good but the camera man, probably, suffers from Parkinson's disease. The latter is because in a substantial number of scenes the camera was either shaking or quite erratically moving from side to side, which sometimes even caused me feeling slightly dizzy. Since this was the first disc I played on a new Sony BD player I waited for the arrival of the second and the third discs before leaving this feedback, as I wanted to be sure that this is not a problem of the BD player. Now I can say it is certainly a flaw in camerawork. Pity.

Read all recent reviews