City Rats

Welcome to the world of the City Rats where eight lives collide in a Pulp Fiction style blend that reveals London’s true dark and twisted underbelly.

City Rats is a modern day Dickensian tale about eight haunted people who meet and fall apart while searching for redemption in each other.

Bear with me as we go off on a little tangent here; Dawson’s Creek inspired a generation to slowly fall in love with hot women, and to always try to do the best thing for the good of the people. In the end Joey and Pacey probably went off and had great lives, but one annoying thing ruined every episode of Dawson’s Creek, and that was the character of Dawson.

I hated that guy as he just wanted to make arty bad movies which no one in their right mind would ever watch. Now I am not sure but I believe Steve Kelly, the director of City Rats must be a massive fan of Dawson, because the film he has made is utter tosh, exactly the same kind of drivvle that Dawson would make.

One shining light is that Danny Dyer is not in his normal cocky ‘I’m the hardest cockney geezer on the planet’ stereotype. He is a drop out, and believable in the process. But that really is the only highlight in this drawn out slow moving look on the lives of 8 losers.

If this film was meant to shock, it didn’t, if it was supposed to inspire, then it didn’t, emphasis the city’s underside, nope, highlight the plight of the down trodden, missed again. It might just be me who likes funny films or blockbuster cool flicks. But this was just pony.

 

DVD extras

Over 60 mins of exclusive extras including:
- 40min Making Of City Rats
- Deleted Scenes
- Alternative Ending
- Behind-the Scenes Footage
- Trailer

~Review by Alex

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