OUTLAW

Sean Bean, Danny Dyer, Lennie James, Rupert Friend, Sean Harris, Bob Hoskins, Evelyn Duah, Rob Fry.


Sergeant Danny Bryant (Bean) returns home from Iraq to a nation he no longer recognizes, riddled with violent crime and corruption.

Seeking refuge in a cheap hotel, where security guard Simon Hillier (Harris) secretly spies on guests, Bryant vows to bring law and justice back to the streets of the capital.

He joins forces with Hillier and a group of likeminded men. Among them are Gene Dekker (Dyer), who is the victim of road rage; barrister Cedric Munroe (James), whose pregnant wife Marcia (Duah) is brutalized in their London townhouse; student Sandy Mardell (Friend), who is left scarred after a vicious assault; and policeman Walter Lewis (Hoskins), who has seen too many guilt men walk free from court.

Armed to the hilt, the vigilantes wreak revenge on the people who have harmed them, including drug baron Manning (Fry) and his henchmen. Nick Love's deeply flawed film is set in lawless, present day Britain, where the citizens are compelled to take up arms to dole out rough justice to the criminal fraternity.

Outlaw meets the forces of hate with a blitzkrieg of gunfire and mindless carnage, suggesting that empowerment of the people is achieved through angry mob rule rather than democracy or intellectual argument.


Once Bryant and his posse take to the streets, the film becomes a senseless bloodbath, culminating in an almost comical shootout between the men and the police in the woods.


Scenes of violence are graphic and nasty.

A disillusioned soldier like Bryant should know that the best way to end a war is to do everything to prevent it starting in the first place.