It is three decades of his life following him from football hooliganism, to bouncer, his involvement in the criminal aspects of the early 'rave' scene and subsequently becoming a violent criminal. In America, Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever also disliked it, throwing the film one bone (out of possible four) and dismissing it as "Brit crime flick, based on a true story, that has nothing going for it but violence". And so here we are 14 years on and the 5th installmentRISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER: ORIGINS is now in Cinemas, in what is the final installment. The theatrical cut is available on DVD in the States and Britain but the extended cut is only available on Blu-ray in the UK.

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This is shown by the fact that not only Rise of the Footsoldier but also Essex Boys(2000), and soon to be released The Fall of the Essex Boys use the events as a basis for their plot.Though portraying the two men as aggressive and arrogant they still manage to show a believable element of intelligence with realisations that they see they need to get out of the situations they have put themselves in and at least attempt to get out before it’s too late, though even they are hard to like. Rise Of The Footsoldier Origins: The story behind cult Essex films spawned by notorious triple gangland murder". Craig Fairbrass for example as Pat Tate creates a detestable character and probably the most psychopathic of them all. Synopsis: The rise of ruthless Essex gangster Pat Tate, who blazes a path from Marbella to the Medway in the late 80s, peddling pills and snorting coke and crushing anyone who gets in his way, in his quest for cash and power. Losing his family, street respect, and his job of managing the door of a nightclub because of his uncontrollable violence, Leach is fast approaching the bottom of a self-destructing spiral.

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As Julian Gilbey says in his interview included in the special features it’s not a film for everybody but it’s one that does have its role to play in both his filmography and the genre it’s based in.TimeOut Film Guide (2011 edition) reviewer David Jenkinson describes Rise of the Footsoldier as "a repugnant gangland romp in which ruffians get tooled up with axe handles, baseball bats and Stanley knives then knock ten bells out of each other for two hours. This movie is the first in the series to seemingly not feature Terry Stone and Roland Manookian as Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe. Suffering nightmarish flashbacks, Leach hides weapons in every nook and cranny of the family home as his drink and drug enhanced paranoia takes hold and his expectation of an attempt on his life reaches boiling point. RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER charts the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their ways through London and Essex in the late eighties, and early nineties. RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER: VENGEANCE is the ultimate vengeance action movie, as TATE (Craig Fairbrass) goes on the rampage to exact revenge for the brutal death of one of his footsoldiers.

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Initially told as a flashback, the film reimagines Tucker as a goodun-gone-bad type guy, ex-army affected by serving in the Falklands War undone by drugs, money, and power.But Harris is long dead and the middle-man Terry Fisher (Andrew Loveday) offers Pat the biggest drug deal of his life. This is character acting at its best and both Russo and Manookian’s performances demonstrate the depth of acting currently circulating on the British independent film scene.