There is a whole genre of London East Ender gangster movies tat move along the plot fault ines just a an old time cowboy movie its so true to foorm. What the Kray brothers have started, right? Stuff loke "Performance", "Villain" to "Sexy Beast". Many of em with gay undertones. And "London Boulevard" is more of the same and a goodie.
Colin Farrel continues his career revival as an ex-con who has just spent three years in Pokey for GBH. Back and ready to go straight, he signs up as reclusive movie star Kiera Knighley's bodyguard, while closet case Ray Walston tries to drag him back into being a gangster. It is well written (by the bloke who did "The Departed") and bloody and an exciting, and powerfil thriller although the plot doesn't hang together that well leaving it well short of a masterpiece. Farrell as a man of few words has perfected acting with your eyebrows.
It is also absolutely a genre exercise where the soundtrack is strong and filled with 1960's rockers like the Pretty Things, the Yardbirds, Bob Dylan as the as well as modern day wannabes Kasabian (whi I mistook for Primal Scream!).
One more thing… great Francis Bacon paintings on Kiera Knighley's walls. Long time readers might remember I used a Bacon painting as trock nyc's logo for a coupla months.
Available on PPV at the moment, movie houses soon.
Movie: B+
Music: B+