VILLAIN

UK, 2019, 97 minutes, Colour.

Craig Fairbrass, George Russo, Izuka Hoyle, Mark Monero, Tomi May, Robert Glenister.

Directed by Philip Barrantini.

A British drama about criminals, some hardened, some caught up in criminal activity. Villain received good responses from critics as well as audiences.

The focus is on Eddie, Craig’s, released after 10 years in prison, hoping to make a better life. He encounters his younger brother, Sean (George Russ so who also contributed to the screenplay), tangled with drugs, in debt to gangster brothers who confront Eddie.

On the human side, and he remembers his girlfriend and visits her daughter and her little baby, a hostile reception initially, but Eddie wanting to make good with Chloe and her baby, especially at the end.

However, Sean is in debt, Eddie trying to fix the situation, confronting the two brothers, shooting, chopping the bodies (some gruesome moments), disposing of them. However, there is a complication in so far as Sean was an informant for the police. Eddie makes a final bid, organising with a friend to Rob a jewelry store, making his getaway, confrontation with the police, his death and the preview and a previous confrontation with the young woman’s boyfriend, dying in the street.

Familiar material, familiar characters from British gangster films, a blend of the tough, the humane, issues with the law.

1. The title, expectations? A 20^th-century gangsters?
2. The setting, the town, the bar, homes, the streets, jeweller’s shop? The musical score?
3. Eddie’s story, age, experience, background, crimes, 10 years in prison, freed, to make a new life, meeting with Sean, Sean and his drug issues, finance, the hotel, the visit of the brothers, the confrontation, demanding Sean’s money, the decision to hand over the hotel, the meeting with the brothers, the gun, shooting, disposing of the bodies, a new life?
4. Eddie and his visit to Chloe, the past, memories of his girlfriend, Chloe’s severe reaction, the baby, her boyfriend, Eddie challenging him, the violent interchange? Eddie and his human feelings of the baby?
5. Sean, younger, weaker, the drugs and dependence, his girlfriend and her stripping, in debt, the brothers, Eddie trying to fix the matter, signing over the hotel? The brothers, the shooting, Sean and his killing one of the brothers? The consequences, the bodies, getting rid of them?
6. The police, Shawn as an informant, the phone calls to Eddie? Eddie, robbing the shop, his friend and the getaway? The police confrontation?
7. Chloe’s boyfriend, his revenge, on the bike, the machine gun, killing Eddie?