Crime Drama Music. Director Plan B. Plan B. Top credits Director Plan B. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer UK Version. Clip Ill Manors. Photos Top cast Edit. Riz Ahmed Aaron as Aaron. Ed Skrein Ed as Ed.
Lee Allen Chris as Chris. Andrew Okello Kurt as Kurt. Neil Large Terry as Terry. Keef Coggins Kirby as Kirby. Patrick O'Halloran Liability as Liability.
Anouska Mond Michelle as Michelle. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. We are all products of our environment Some environments are just harder to survive in. Not Rated. Did you know Edit. Trivia Plan B : In the last shot of the film before the credits, Drew is shown to be the one driving the car Aaron is in. Goofs When Ed is arrested he is shown in a cell. The gaoler is shown wearing Her Majesty's Prisons uniform. Later it was stated that he was released without charge; if that was the case he would have only got as far as being held in police custody, which is run by the police rather than the prison service.
Connections References The Way of the Dragon User reviews 70 Review. Top review. Ill Manors is not autobiographical, although it was party inspired by real events witnessed by the director and his friends. Aaron Ahmed is the downtrodden deputy to small-time drug dealer Ed Ed Skrein , a relationship which becomes strained when the latter ruthlessly pimps out crack-addicted prostitute Michelle Anouska Mond to a string of sleazy clients to pay for his lost cellphone.
The grimness is layered pretty thick, but handled with authenticity, some welcome flashes of dark humour, and a finely controlled sense of slow-building dread. The non-linear plotlines also weave together with a satisfying symmetry that never feels too contrived. The year-old Drew has made an extremely assured shift into screenwriting and directing with Ill Manors.
His musical persona is also cleverly integrated into the fabric of the movie, with six new Plan B track accompanying flashback montages that serve as succinct biographical summaries for each of the main characters. Although Drew is currently completing a spin-off album, his film is emphatically not some feature-length promo-video project. The musical sequences have a strong narrative purpose, but are never allowed to swamp the action.
The intertwined plotlines also invoke a tradition of multi-strand urban dramas such as Pulp Fiction , Amores Perros and Crash , although the tone here is darker and less forgiving than any of them.
Later this year he makes his leading-man debut alongside Ray Winstone in The Sweeney, a big-screen reboot of a much-loved British TV cop drama from the s.
The director of that film is Nick Love , a kind of low-rent Guy Ritchie best known for shallow, glossy crime capers set in London gangland. Most of his characters have been brutalised by their harsh environment: broken families, care homes, reform schools and prison figure strongly. Bullying and street crime are ever present threats.
Parents, police and authority figures are almost entirely absent from the drama. Social inequality is clearly a force for evil in this hellish urban milieu, but personal responsibility is not forgotten either. Many of these characters willingly seal their own grim fate, like the underage wannabe hoodlum Ryan de la Cruz who is arm-twisted into becoming a pre-teen assassin, with catastrophic consequences. Abusers become victims, and vice versa.
This non-judgmental story ends on a cautiously hopeful note, but it benefits from not offering heavy-handed slogans or simplistic solutions. Behind its dense welter of detail and technical razzle-dazzle, Ill Manors occasionally reminds you that this is a debut feature, with the odd wobbly performance or clumsy plot twist.
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