Tuesday 12 November 2019

Love, Honour and Obey (1999 Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis & scr)

A messy movie in which wannabe hard-nut gangster Johnny Lee Miller is supplanted on a farcical group of North London gangsters, headed by Ray Winstone and his nephew Jude Law.

The Miller character, who distractingly narrates dressed as a clown, is annoyingly undeveloped - has no seeming purpose other than to be a gangster and cause trouble with the South London boys Sean Pertwee (not terribly convincing) and Rhys Ifans. So we don't really care about him or the film.

Most fun in the buffoonery of gangsters and molls Sadie Frost, Kathy Burke, Denise van Outen, Dominic Anciano and Ray Burdis (who play the bouncers), Perry Benson etc. and in various karaoke bits.


Anciano & Burdis had made Final Cut the previous year, also with Winstone, Law and Frost, a sort of 'home movie' which has very mixed reviews.

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