Very rough, very realistic, very British.

It started strong and could have been a great revenge story. Unfortunately, the script and the directing messed up the second part, when the story lost its 'line'.

Disappointing final with a mass shooting in a hospital(!). Why filmmakers have so much trouble with consisting endings, here, why not tracing the villains step by step and giving them what they deserve? Instead the worst of the gang died graciously fast by a police bullet.

A central part of the story is completely incomprehensible: the daughter of the police women being the devote sex object of the guy who is the scum of the earth; without the mother having any idea? Come on!

Still an entertaining movie, though the topic is somewhat given away.

This is a London based vigilante film that features almost cartoonish street hoodlums who the director goes out of his way to make utterly despicable such as casual raping and at one point threatening to throw a pram and baby over a building.

An old man Charlie (Steven Berkoff) is kicked to death by a gang called E2 as he tries to help a young woman from being raped. However Charlie was a respected and also a feared former gangster. To get revenge his brother Richie (Ian Ogilvy) returns from Spain and gets together with his old lags to gain revenge.

The hard guy pensioners go old school as they catch several members of E2 and torture them as they try to find out the whereabouts of their gang leader. The police in the mean time act like dummies not even able to find out that the gang put Charlie's beating on YouTube.

It is nice to see former Saint, Ogilvy returning to headline a film and trading his posh accent for a gruff cockney one. He still looks smooth for his age which is more than I can say for the female co- stars Alison Doody and Lysette Anthony who are unrecognisable from their bygone years.

At least the hard assed veterans seem to be having fun getting back to torturing their victims like the old day although I did it find it hard to believe that the youthful scum did not start squealing after one punch.

The film is derivative, enjoyable and plain daft in equal measures. The shoot out at the hospital was almost bizarre.

WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY is another low budget British gangster thriller, a bit better than most thanks to some smart casting. As leads we get old timers including Chris Ellison, James Cosmo and Ian Ogilvy, making this a gangster version of THE EXPENDABLES mixed with a dark HARRY BROWN-style revenge plot if you will. The film suffers from a poor script that favours the usual kind of expletive-filled nonsense over much in the way of the wit, although there are some funny lines here and there. Way too much screen time is given over to some truly loathsome characters, more than they deserve, which makes some of this hard to sit through, and Dani Dyer has no discernable talent. But given the constraints of the budget this could be a lot worse; two sequels have followed.