Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, hell bent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escape Brixton, they are trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house, sandwiched between a Rastafarian reggae pirate radio station upstairs and a West Indian 'Yardie' crack-dealing gangster, Julius, downstairs. As the charismatic Flynn finds common g... (Full plot summary below)
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Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, hell bent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escape Brixton, they are trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house, sandwiched between a Rastafarian reggae pirate radio station upstairs and a West Indian 'Yardie' crack-dealing gangster, Julius, downstairs. As the charismatic Flynn finds common ground with the Yardies, Johnny fights to realize a peace process of his own, but makes the mistake of falling for Julius's girlfriend Rita, causing all-out war. A thriller in the vein of Lock Stock and The Long Good Friday, in which questions of race, morality, identity and loyalty play out against a great sound-track of reggae, rock, new wave and soul.
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| DVDTalk.comDavid CorneliusJohnny Was has little going for it besides attitude. Ah, but what attitude. |
| User ReviewSean Jfucking wicked one of my all time favourites |
| User ReviewSteve Mgood movie, great story and a killer soundtrack too. |
| User ReviewPrivate UA great movie, not normally my style, but really enjoyable |
| User ReviewDaniel KVinnie Jones in good film shocker! Ably supported by an eclectic cast ranging from Lennox Lewis, to Patrick Bergin via The Who's Roger Daltrey. |
| User ReviewEric SI wasn't expecting much from this movie, but it was pretty damn good. |
| User ReviewDave AGreat film. Wonderful story only one bad accent but it was acceptable. Favorite bit was when Lennox Lewis pulls out a shot gun. A must see. |
| User ReviewMicha? SI'm a fan of Vinnie Jones and he was pretty good here. |
| User ReviewArun CI would watch 90 minutes of Lennox Lewis as an underground, Rasta DJ |
| User ReviewPieter Pa must see movie - interracial conflicts from another point of view |
