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Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Shank tries to emulate those urban Noel Clarke heavy films and again we have an underclass in tower blocks trying to make ends meet in an urban wasteland. At least Shank is set in the near future in a Britain suffering from economic collapse and food is scarce.The film follows Junior and his older brother Rager who is the head of the local gang, 'The Paper Chaserz' who have a moral code of refusing to kill and getting involved in violence. However a plan to steal goods from a van goes wrong as a rival gang called the Soldiers take over the attempted theft and as they chase Junior they end up killing Rager. Junior and his crew are now looking for revenge.The actions starts in a frenetic and heavily choppy edited fashion with Junior doing Parkour moves as he tries to get away from the Soldiers. However as suspected the film runs out of juice, the writer and director seems to think that all the youth of today want to hear is that every other word to have f@@K in it not helped by some too loud rap soundtrack especially near the end when all I wanted to see is the climax of the film and how they will deal with the thrust of their anti violence message if at all possible without being cack handed. Unfortunately cack handed it is as its a circle that cannot be squared. The actors do well especially Kedar Williams-Sterling but they are not helped by the screenplay.

From the upstart, this film does not know what it wants to be.In one instant, it tries to be a Noel Clarke 'ghetto' type movie, and in the next, it wants to be some steam punk movie from the eighties.It fails on every level, but it demands to be watched until the very end, because of its random set pieces, and really uncomfortable comedy.Set in the future, or five tears away, there is a shortage of food, and people now freerun or ride bikes for transport.Rich people still eat sandwiches, but hey, this film is aimed at the white collar wearing sun readers of the future, and this is another chink in its armour, it doesn't know how to treat the demographic its aiming at.So instead of sending out a message, it treats us to everyone's favourite screen hoodie Adam Deacon vomiting and talking the lingo he does in every. Single. Film. He's. In.there's a random CGI segment thrown in, and an animated segment to try and make it a little more cool, but again, it fails.The film has tried too hard to be something different, and this is destined to become obscure very, very soon.

I'm usually up for most films, good or bad, following which I feel it is not unreasonable to share my thoughts in a place where such thoughts are intended to be shared ie. here.I do not feel it is fair of me to share my thoughts on Shank. This is because I watched no more than 10 minutes of it, because I simply couldn't bear to. Suffice it to say that this film, which appeared to be about black London gang culture, contained nothing in those ten minutes which attracted or interested me, but a great deal which repelled me. This, to me, said "Time to stop watching," so I did.I would add that it appeared to be professionally made (if you like hand-held camera-work), and accordingly does not fit my personal definition of "the worst film I have ever seen" (in which connection I refer you to "Colin."

I have watched a lot of gang films that have gone over the edge, but this film gives a clear explanation of the life of a young boy struggling without the only family he had and seeing him get revenge for his brothers death and going in any means necessary to complete his mission of getting the one who Shanked his beloved brother! Its an over the edge new film with brilliant music scores and contemporary dub-step rap which has evolved, editing of the movie is very digital and unique to what effects where added into the movie, shots taken are incredibly remarkable and give a more grunge look to the movie, from beginning to end the movie contains a slow, but POV type look to the movie to where it makes the viewer see the movie in a way the movie will be in the future for everyone, give it a drug like sense to the viewer.