Six Bend Trap, aka Thugs, Mugs & Dogs **½
Stars: Dave Courtney, Martin Owen, Allan Gordon, Daniel Poyser, Ian Edwards | Written and Directed by Mike McCarthy
I must admit, watching the first few minutes of the film made me feel a little sick, so I had to turn the film off and watch something more family orientated before my second attempt. However, in the line of duty, I put on a brave face and gave the film a second chance….and am glad that I did.
This is a low budget film, made with various unknown actors who are trying their best to bring life to the characters…and at the end of it, if you take the film as just that, a low budget English film without the talents of Brad Pitt, or Jason Statham then you wont be disappointed. The film feels like a cross between Lock Stock and a...
Stars: Dave Courtney, Martin Owen, Allan Gordon, Daniel Poyser, Ian Edwards | Written and Directed by Mike McCarthy
I must admit, watching the first few minutes of the film made me feel a little sick, so I had to turn the film off and watch something more family orientated before my second attempt. However, in the line of duty, I put on a brave face and gave the film a second chance….and am glad that I did.
This is a low budget film, made with various unknown actors who are trying their best to bring life to the characters…and at the end of it, if you take the film as just that, a low budget English film without the talents of Brad Pitt, or Jason Statham then you wont be disappointed. The film feels like a cross between Lock Stock and a...
- 4/25/2011
- by Abid Gangat
- Nerdly
Danny is the lead singer in a band. Along with his two best mates, Daz and Rusty, he manages to get caught up with some local gangsters over some confusion involving loan sharks, the band’s van and the title deeds to some prime riverfront property in Middlesborough. The only way he can seem to extricate himself is to team up with local greyhound racer Pat Lalley to train a winning greyhound to race against and beat the greyhound of gang boss Dave Courtney at Peterborough’s Fengate Stadium, if only he can live long enough to get there.
*****
Six Bend Trap seems to be in the process of being renamed as Thugs, Mugs and Dogs, which tells you a good deal more about what to expect from the film than the current title, though helps not one jot in raising the quality, nor punter expectations, for what is essentially a derivative,...
*****
Six Bend Trap seems to be in the process of being renamed as Thugs, Mugs and Dogs, which tells you a good deal more about what to expect from the film than the current title, though helps not one jot in raising the quality, nor punter expectations, for what is essentially a derivative,...
- 4/21/2011
- by Dave Roper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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