Just as the American western had its Gunfight at the OK Corral, so the British crime flick has the Rettendon Range Rover murders of December 1995, in which a trio of drug dealers were shotgunned to death on the back roads of Essex. This is the third film to revisit the scene, scampering in the wake of Essex Boys and Rise of the Footsoldier, trampling the evidence underfoot as it sniffs excitably at a pungent mess of gangster cliche. Tamer Hassan, king of the British B-movie, stars as the thuggishly avuncular Pat Kane, who dons various outfits as he wades from triumph to disaster. Here he is, resplendent in regulation knitwear as he tosses a snivelling grass over the prison railings. There he is, modelling a natty bathrobe as he hurls his girlfriend down the steps of their bungalow. And here he is again, poignantly swaddled in a heavy car-coat as he drives through the snow to meet his Waterloo.
Yet another Brit-gangster film version of the Rettendon Range Rover murders; this is as shoddy and cliched as the rest of them, writes Xan Brooks
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