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2000 Certificate 18
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Locke (Sean Bean) is a crime boss just released from prison and planning to regain his former position on top of Essex's criminal underworld. He meets up with Billy, a cabbie who becomes intrigued by the power and thrills of a life of crime. Together they plan a deal with the local drug boss with explosive consequences. Also .. Read more

Starring Sean Bean, Alex Kingston, Charlie Creed-Miles, Tom Wilkinson
Director Terry Winsor
Genres Thriller

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Essex Boys

Locke (Sean Bean) is a crime boss just released from prison and planning to regain his former position on top of Essex's criminal underworld. He meets up with Billy, a cabbie who becomes intrigued by the power and thrills of a life of crime. Together they plan a deal with the local drug boss with explosive consequences. Also starring Alex Kingston (of TV's E.R.) as Locke's wife.

Starring Sean Bean, Alex Kingston, Charlie Creed-Miles, Tom Wilkinson, Larry Lamb, Holly Davidson, Terence Rigby
Director Terry Winsor
Studio PATHE DISTRIBUTION
Run time DVD: 1 hr 38 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Thriller
Language DVD: English
Hearing-impaired English
Released DVD: 02 Jul 2001
Production year: 2000
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (3) of Essex Boys

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    This slick British crime thriller breaks no new ground and tries too hard to be tough. Yet interest is sustained by taut pacing, a nicely murky plot and spirited performances from Alex Kingston, Tom Wilkinson, Charlie Creed-Miles and a scenery-chewing Sean Bean. The story centres on a young minicab driver who is hired by a hard man fresh out of prison. The youth finds himself in the firing line when a major drug deal prompts a power struggle among rival elements of the Essex criminal fraternity.

    • Radio Times
  • Violent gangster movie, in part based on a actual murder of three men, found shot dead in a car in an Essex wood in 1995, but otherwise a familiar fantasy of betrayal and revenge among thugs.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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  • 6 out of 6 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Realistic

    This is a fictional film rendering of the events that led to the real-life execution of three local gangsters in an Essex field a few years back.

    The excellent Sean Bean delivers a seamless performance as the psychopathic hard man working for a villain who wants to control the doors – and therefore the drug deals – of the area's clubs. Fiction it may be but there is a fair amount of overlap with what really happened.

    Overall, Essex Boys is an interesting and well-made film. I lived in South Essex for many years and I can promise you that the picture it paints of the local lowlives is pretty realistic!

      • rayk from norfolk
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  • 3 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Overhypnotised

    To be honest I found this film dull and boring.

    I was ready in anticipation but the director decided to remove all possible glamour and turn it into the feeling you are in a post office queue.

    Sad when it could have been so good with such enticing subject matter - the Great Train Robbery it is not, failed of Berkshire maybe...

    • vosblod
      • vosblod from England
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