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City Rats (2009)

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Average Rating:3.1/10

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Although Kelly displays imagination as well as technical skill, his film can’t be taken seriously.

Full Review Source: Sunday Times (UK) | comment Comment
04/28/09
Edward Porter
Edward Porter
Sunday Times (UK)

The factitious tale of eight Londoners from the lower reaches of the East End who pair off to go about their tedious, unconvincing ways with Canary Wharf usually in the background.

Full Review Source: Observer [UK] | comment Comment
04/28/09
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

It’s a terrible film, so blithely wrong-headed in its execution that some scenes are quite entertaining in an ‘is this really happening?’ kind of way.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
04/25/09
David Jenkins
David Jenkins
Time Out

A low budget drama by a writer and director both making their feature debut, it's an uneven but ambitious enterprise which, like its characters, never knows which way to turn, or how best to exploit its own strengths.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
04/25/09
Jon Fortgang
Jon Fortgang
Channel 4 Film

There really is no film as terrible as a terrible Britfilm, and here is a depressing example that I can only compare to Madonna's legendarily abysmal Filth and Wisdom.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
04/25/09
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

City Rats is an old Trabant: depressing, prone to stall, its parts not properly welded together.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
04/25/09
Dominic Wells
Dominic Wells
Times [UK]

Sorely in need of an injection of black humour or wit, City Rats is a long trawl through picture postcard London, populated by underwritten characters mouthing unlikely dialogue.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
04/25/09
Rob Daniel
Rob Daniel
Sky Movies

An inane urban drama with a strong cast – Susan Lynch and James Lance among them – and big themes – death, art, love, sex – but no discernible point.

Full Review Source: Financial Times | comment Comment
04/25/09
Karl French
Karl French
Financial Times

An ambitious, wildly uneven venture beautifully photographed by Adam Levins.

Full Review Source: Daily Express | comment Comment
04/25/09
Allan Hunter
Allan Hunter
Daily Express

Danny Dyer, Susan Lynch and Tamer Hassan do their best to convince but City Rats is never more than a compendium of clichés hoping to amuse and move us. In the end it does neither.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
04/25/09
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
This is London
 
 
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