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Waste of Money.

Very well executed

One of my all time favorites.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Fortunately for me IMDb exists. I found this movie by thinking that Croupier was pretty good and to find another movie directed by Mike Hodges.Mike Hodges was born in 1932 making him 81 when he directed this dated thing he should have retired 20 years earlier. Croupier was a lot better movie over all but still a bit of a gay basher--not a hint of ambiguity in it's straight sexy world but this thing is down right offensive. When this unlikeable dope dealer hipster slices his throat right after he was anally raped---(I had thought he might be the one that was beat up-- and had recovered). I hit IMDb and informed pulled the plug.Later in the movie they dress corpses in bras during the revenge...AVOID.DO NOT RECOMMEND... read the other negative reviews....

Sigh. If you want intrigue, dashing villains, homicidal maniacs, and dark British humor, watch Snatch again. If you like tough guys nurturing man-crushes and psychoanalyzing one another, get out your blankie and cuddle with the kittie-cat because you're in for a great ride.Portraying a broken man, Clive Owen is capable with his mannerisms and facial expressions but doesn't have enough character development to stretch his legs. Malcolm McDowell is misused as a sadistic buggerer who sets the film into action and then absents himself from its plot until he kindly explains himself at its bland finale.Rather than "act", characters eagerly provide their insights into one another's psyches - "you want to die, don't you?" - which doesn't seem very masculine. Characters speculate on what it might be like to bash into one another but the film avoids showing actual conflict. I was stunned to pause it and find there were only 20 minutes left because from a viewer's perspective nothing had happened since the first 20 minutes of the film elapsed.

There's this bloke lives in a van parked down our road.Might be some sort of pikey I suppose, but he looks as if he's been a bit tasty in his time....................... Former gang boss turned tree - hugger Mr C.Owen returns to his roots. "I'll sleep when I'm dead" is yet another attempt at the elusive noir genre that we Brits are so bad at.So many well 'ard geezers threatening each other with a bit of GBH before going home to be good to their dear old mums,dark London alleyways,big-time crims in flash drums.....I mean,come on,we've seen it all before.Even the presence of a relative of a notorious London villain can't prevent this load of tosh disappearing up the double barrels of its own shotgun. And it's set in Brixton,spiritual home of London's Gangstas from where I venture to suggest Mr Owen would have been sent packing very early on in his career. The "modern" storyline where old - time villain Mr M. McDowell punishes an annoying young rival by buggering him borders on the - to say the least - unlikely,a desperate attempt by the makers to add a spin to the well - trodden path of the revenge movie. Miss C.Rampling appears for no good reason that I could ascertain,and awaits her fate like Burt Lancaster in "The Killers",the only ground this movie has in common with that masterpiece. With so many terrible British crimflicks already in the marketplace,"I'll sleep when I'm dead" deserves to disappear in the hell reserved for the works of the Guy Ritchie school of Frankie Fraser wannabes whose sycophancy towards psychopathic criminals is as nuaseating as it is risible.

This would have been a great mystery film if it weren't a revenge film. There's a lot of great atmosphere, tension, and rhythm to the first half of the film, which increases but never really boils over. What connects these characters is power, wanting to be rid of it, loathing it, courting it, defending it trying to manufacture it, and in the end everyone seems only sinking deeper into troubles. It's definitely entertaining to watch and much more well paced and developed than your average gangster film, the problem is this movie feels like it's getting ready to explode or at least have a sequel, and it doesn't capitalize on it's tension. Some good editing, music, performances, and atmosphere, but if your not careful the story can slick it's way by without leaving an impact.