The unkillable crime saga rewinds to the 90s for yet another helping of lairy geezers going at it. Will you stay awake this time?
Say what you might about the Rise of the Footsoldier franchise – for example, that the films are boringly repetitive or that they wallow way too much in macho, estuary-accented crime-flick cliches – at least they’re consistent. And loyal: ever since the first one came out in 2007 and dramatised the lead-up to the real-life Essex Range Rover murders of 1995, the subsequent four films have used roughly the same cast members throughout. But given that three of the major characters carked it in the first movie, the film-makers have no choice but to keep making prequel stories, set in the time before our drug-dealing Essex-underworld anti-heroes turned up brown bread in Rettendon.
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