Brighton

This film is 'NOT' for the PC brigade. Reminded me of my Grandads generation. A touch of Alf Garnet about the film. There's irony later in the film. Give it a chance, I wasn't disappointed.

First off, why is she speaking like that? Secondly, too much pointless unnecessary swearing. I expected much better, with Larry Lamb and Phil Davis. Very disappointing.

This is the kind of film that anyone born after 1970 won't understand. Most of a certain age and upwards will understand the pops crackles and aches and pains from old bones, the loss of one's youth thinking you are still young at heart and body, but aren't. The language and racist/sexist language I guess would have a younger generation shocked. The acting is very good by both young and old, the cinematography is very good. There's also small sub plots in the four main characters experience in their younger days at the hands of bullies and personal loss. All in all a good film for those of us getting older and reminiscing of our times as teddy boys and the mayhem.

Not all plays do well on the big screen.

It was made 14 years after the modern days setting so even attitudes had changed in that time.

Ok, it's not the best script in the world and Lesley Sharpe's cockney accent is suspect but I suspect many reviewers here don't remember shows like Til Death Do Us Part, Love They Neighbour and Mind Your Language.

This is spreading a similar message.

Times are changing and the safety blanket of the past is being taken away from those brought up in those times.

The film may not have been entirely filmed in Brighton but how many films and shows are actually filmed where they are set?

Most TV shows seem to be filmed in studios in Leeds or Manchester these days.

The film is about changing times and maybe would have been better wet in Eastbourne or god's waiting room as my resident relative there calls it.

For a relatively small place Brighton does receive a lot of film and TV exposure.

As said, the story isn't brilliant but the actors do their characters well.

Perhaps a lot less looking at old impressions and more on the values of the past might have given the main cast greater credit.

Not a film for the woke but a nice bit of nostalgia for those old enough to have experienced the highs and lows in life.

It's far from a 10 but PC brigade giving it a 1 isn't right either.

Could have been much better. A good cast deserved better too.

A waste of talented actors, I'm surprised they agreed to appear in this drivel. Typical stereotypes bad cockney accents & not a good story. It could have been good but the screenplay was badly done, & direction poor to say the least, I presume as it was made in 2019, but realised in 2021, it wasn't good enough for cinema realise. Don't bother to watch it's a waste of an hour & a half of your life!