An ambitious, wildly uneven venture beautifully photographed by Adam Levins.
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04/25/09
City Rats (2009)
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Average Rating:3.1/10
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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.
04/25/09
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.
04/25/09
City Rats is an old Trabant: depressing, prone to stall, its parts not properly welded together.
04/25/09
Although Kelly displays imagination as well as technical skill, his film can’t be taken seriously.
04/28/09
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.
04/25/09
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.
04/25/09
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.
04/25/09
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.
04/28/09
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.
04/25/09
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