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| FILM DETAILS | Certificate
15 | | Cast
Danny Dyer
Tamer Hassan
Curtis Jackson
Brenda Blethyn. | | Directors
Alex De Rakoff. | | Screenwriters
Alex De Rakoff. | | Running Time
120 minutes |
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Dead Man Running (15) Plot
Nick owes a lot of money to a very violent man, who is threatening his family if he doesn't pay it back. He drags his mate into a series of schemes to drum up the cash.Review
Diamond if dodgy geezer Nick (Tamer Hassan) has 24 hours to pay back the £100,000 he owes a Yank Shylock (Curtis Jackson) or else a nasty bloke (Phil Davis) will empty a shotgun into Nick’s mum (Brenda Blethyn). Will Nick, aided by old china Bing (Danny Dyer), scrape up the cash via bare-knuckle boxing, contract killing and greyhound nobbling and save the old dear?
This shaggy dog gangland story feels like a straggler from the batch of forgettable Lock, Stock imitators greenlit a decade ago. It has a quality cast, but we’ve run round this track too many times, while the script jogs from scene to scene without any surprises.
Verdict
Nothing remarkable or noteworthy about this Brit gangster-by-numbers effort except the cast.
Reviewer: Kim Newman
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