GOING OFF BIG TIME - LIVERPOOL GANGSTER

"LIVERPOOL GANGSTER" ("Mediawith Classics"; DVD):

A little bit of premiere here, 'cause you now get the first movie review here on my blog with the first entry of the cateory 'Movie Reviews'. I have plenty of movies here around that are waiting to be reviewed, and I'll start it all off with the movie called "LIVERPOOL GANGSTER". What's strange about it is the fact that the movie primary came out in 2000 for all what I know, but here in Germany (as a german version) it was first released in 2008... WTF?!? And then I'm always asking myself why movies with an english original title have to come out in Germany wit a different title also in english... The movie title is originally "GOING OFF BIG TIME" and not "LIVERPOOL GANGSTER". And I think the original title is a much better one 'cause it shows much better what this movie is about instead of the fake ass title of "LIVERPOOL GANGSTER". So don't get any wrong impressions of the "LIVEPOOL GANGSTER" title, the cover picture with the guy with the shaven head and the "HOOLIGAN" jacket on (by the way, cheap photoshop work...), don't get here anything wrong, 'cause this is NOT a Hooligan movie and this is also NOT a Skinhead movie. Just to get this straight!!! This is, hm, let us call it a Gangster movie, and yes, it's a british movie.

MARK CLAYTON was always a shy guy who was always aware of staying away from trouble. Some bad luck struck him down and because of him one of the psychopathic violent criminals of Liverpool was caught by the police and was swearing to take revenge on CLAYTON. A nervous wreck was it was CLAYTON became and caught in a anxiety attack he was beating a police man down to the ground. The outcome of this story was that CLAYTON was send into prison. There a well-slick veteran helped him to get through it. Then OZZI also was sent into prison. He's introduced as a guy that loves to make jokes and that's a little bit mentally retarded. How-ever, CLAYTON and OZZI became good friends, but OZZI wasn't able to detect some borderlines and after pissing off the prison authorities he became the prison cell companion of an ultraviolent, psychotic, gay-assfucking piece of shit that nearly would have destroyed OZZI, if CLAYTON not stopped it by a violent assault on it's penetrator. Some more bloody and deadly violent assaults later CLAYTON is out of prison and trying hard to get a real, a regular job to work and to build himself a righteous life again. But, ha, you would not have expected this, right, this all failed, and CLAYTON started moving into the criminal life he wasn't into before his term of imprisonment. At that time he also met OZZI again, and with him and his gang he started working on his criminal career. Drugs, violence, women, gang mentality and warfare, violent assaults, thievery, robbery, and finally homicide and even more drugs. After having the first collision with the established crime scene of Liverpool things become more and more heated up, and especially OZZI shall become more and more to a big problem, 'cause being mentally retarded and taking drugs is maybe not the best combination at all, as you all might have thought already. CLAYTON himself also getting more and more into trouble. He's still working on getting a more or less righteous life done, but all in a 'schizophrenic way', being a couple with a upper class woman, she knows nothing of his criminal life with that he is doing his money, which he likes to 'use' as a steppingstone into a more or less righteous upper class life... but that all shall fail dramatically at the end. So, that's pretty much how the movie goes, culminating in a brutal ambush and a cowardly homicide, and what's then still following is just the 'outcome of the story' of this Gangster career. But watch it by yourself.

The movie is done in a 'flashback' style, 'cause CLAYTON, being on the escape after the murder, knocks at the door of his attorney and then tells her all of the story. And that's something what's a little bit strange, 'cause you get the idea that the two are at least something like good friends 'cause it all seems very intimate, but they never really knew each other before in the movie. The 'narrative density' is not that good at all at this starting point of the movie. Beside this also the german dubbing is just terrible (but you don't have to watch it in german, and the english version really rocks), and yes, the story isn't that innovative at all, okay, but it's done really pretty good and also pretty much grapping at all and the movie comes always with this special british humour that you have to love, and that's great. It's a pretty good british Gnagster movie and story, very funny without being a funny or happy movie anyhow. It's not as good as good as the fantastic "LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS" ("BUBE, DAME, KÖNIG, GRAS"), but it's still a really pretty good movie of that kind, that should really serve your needs if you like such movies and don't get any wrong impressions because of the cover of the movie (as above already said). Ah, of the actors I was knowing nearly none (just one of the "LORD OF THE RINGS" movies, but you will find out by yourself, haha;-)...) before this movie, but they do all a pretty good job. There is also some extra stuff on the disc but I am not a fan of this things, being usually just watching the movies, so don't ask me anything about it. Ah, but before I forget to point that out, the way the pictures of the movie are speaking to us, the viewers, is just really, really great and 100% fitting to the mood and the story of this movie. And good music you find also. If you like this whole british Gangster movies then make sure that you give this one here a good try. (8 of 10 points)

Now you get some short trailors and stuff like this of/to "GOING OFF BIG TIME" or "LIVERPOOL GANGSTER", so here we go: