Yardie (2018 Idris Elba)

Not what I was expecting, more of an ages old fraternal revenge story than a Yardie version of Goodfellas. Apart from the great dub reggae doesn't make much of its 70s / 80s Kingston / Hackney settings or time periods. Writers Brock Norman Brock and Martin Stellman adapted (some of) Victor Headley's 1992 novel in a rather rudimentary way.

Aml Ameen is the lead (from Kidulthood), Stephen Graham arbitrarily adopts Jamaican accents (a mistake). With Naomi Ackie, Calvin Demba.

The more I think about it, the more clichéd it seems. Shot in a muted palette by John Conroy (The Happy Prince). Talking of which he has also photographed a TV adaptation of The Name of the Rose, with Rupert Everett!

Also boasts some rather confusing editing. Sorry. Best bits are D and his daughter.