About
Nick Love’s vigilante drama released in March 2007, six months before the original Rise of the Footsoldier. Sean Bean fronts a group of disillusioned British men who form a citizen vigilante squad after each is failed by the system.
Cast
- Sean Bean (who had played the Pat Tate analogue in Essex Boys in 2000)
- Danny Dyer, Lennie James, Sean Harris, Bob Hoskins
How it relates
Not a direct ROTF connection but part of the same Nick Love / Vertigo Films Britflick-gangland axis. The casting pool, the urban grit, the working-class register, the moral ambiguity all map onto the Rise of the Footsoldier world. Released the same year as ROTF, into the same audience.