Sunday, December 4, 2011

London Boulevard

Movie: London Boulevard
Genre: drama
Synopsis: Mitchel (Colin Farrell) is newly released from prison.  He is doing his best to go straight, but is being pressured to join a London mob – led by mob boss Gant (Ray Winstone).  Mitchel gets a job as a body guard for  a world famous actress, Charlotte (Keira Knightley), who is being mercilessly by paparazzi.  The movie follows Mitchel as he resists the not-so-subtle efforts of Grant to pull him into the mob, he searches for the teenage boys who killed a homeless friend of his, he tries to keep his week-willed sister out of trouble, and as he seems to fall in love with Charlotte.

My two cents: A pretty decent movie.  Colin Farrell excels at playing the tough guy who is normally calm, but can erupt into violence at the spur of a moment.  Ray Winstone plays just about as menacing gangster as I have seen.

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