Mitchel (Collin Farrell) is just released from prison. And he don’t have any intention of going back in though his good old life has quite a few creative methods of living to put him back there. Not exactly a gangster but hot tempered and known around the block, Mitchel looks for a fresh start. He gets to work for a solitary actress Charlotte (Keira Knightley) who is broken after controversy and disturbed to brim with paparazzi. In the mean time find’s him selves caught up between a gang lord and his so called friend who wants to recruit him for their dirty work. Unexpectedly falling for the actress and making the biggest gang lord in town his grave enemy, Mitchel starts to struggle to balance his life and get out of everything clean.
“London Boulevard” is an entertaining movie. It has drama, crime and quite a bit of action in it as well. And it’s quite straight and brutal when it comes to shooting and killing people. Amidst all that the movie firmly builds up the Mitchel character which is portrayed well by Farrell (By now I’m quite disappointed of him not appearing in Hollywood movies anymore). He got a sister who is mischievous whom he tries to take care of the way he can, but hard to tolerate with. He got friends whom are junkies or crooks he really cannot trust. All he wants is to live clean but that’s the only thing he fails to achieve.
The other characters are pretty much strong as well. Charlotte the actress seems to have a lot going around her and now looking for early retirement after disliking many what had happened. The gang lord Gran likes to show his might around the block and a tough guy in a clean suit.
The movie has a good phase. It hardly drags or hardly over accelerates. The script is good which I had a little difficult time to catch up due to British pronunciation and sub titles came for my rescue.
However comparing with those good gang movies which came out in Britton like Layer Cake or Green Street Hooligans, London Boulevard is pretty immature. It has a good plot but not a very creative one or a memorable one. You may enjoy this movie no doubt. But if you felt that it ended too soon welcome to my boat.
My score 3/5
Genre: Crime, Romance
Director: William Monahan
Writers: William Monahan (screenplay), Ken Bruen (novel)
Stars: Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley and Ray Winstone
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