Bonded by Blood

5.5
2010 1 hr 40 min Drama , Thriller , Crime

In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.

  • Cast:
    Lucy Brown , Vincent Regan , Dave Legeno , Tamer Hassan , Terry Stone , Neil Maskell , Kierston Wareing

Reviews

Hellen
2010/09/02

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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VividSimon
2010/09/03

Simply Perfect

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GazerRise
2010/09/04

Fantastic!

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Curt
2010/09/05

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

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Benjames800
2010/09/06

Same as the other reviews! Many better films like this are available. ROTF, The Business, The Football Factory. Even cockneys VS Zombies gave this film a run for its money! Same old southern crap, even the camera angles are off putting! There are quite a few parts where I think they ran out of ideas so decided to get the actors to say c@nt repeatedly just to make it sound more edgy! Crap film. With the actors used this could have probably been a half decent film! (Even though it has been done to death) All in all, rubbish film. A poor performance from most of the cast and many faults with the plot so as not to be entirely watchable! To be honest this film would make me ashamed to be "one of them cockneys" Luckily I from up north and try my best not to associate with people further south than Chesterfield.

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Theo Robertson
2010/09/07

Oh a British gangster film ? Do they still make them ? Maybe they do but they never ever meet with commercial success these days . Don't think I've seen a decent one since RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER that was based on a true story and featured Terry Stone playing a character called Tony Tucker and here Terry Stone is playing another character called Tony Tucker . Wow what a coincidence having the same actor playing a different character with the same name ! It get worse because he's not only playing a character with the same name he's playing the exact same character and the only difference is he's got a slightly different hairstyle ! This shows the banal insipid lazy thinking behind British film production . RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER didn't fare very well at the box office but I rate it as a tough British thriller . I can understand why critics didn't like that 2007 with the somewhat formulaic with an excess of characters screaming " FAHK " and " KHANT " and perhaps a little too much interest of portraying on screen violence that culminated in the 1993 Rettendon murders . If you've seen that film then there's little need to watch this one which is inferior to its predecessor apart from Mr Stone's hairstyle BONDED BY BLOOD follows the criminal career of several characters who sell drugs , beat people and eventually meet a sticky end . There's not a single sentence spoken that doesn't involve the F or C word . What does it bring to the table that hasn't been done before or better ? Absolutely nothing except to state that the people serving life for murder might be innocent so what better than to show them committing a triple murder on screen . Yeah I'm sure that's going to get the case to the court of appeal This is actually the third film to use the Rettendon murders as it theme after the heavily fictionalised ESSEX BOYS from 2000 and the aforementioned FOOTSOLDIER . Unbelievably earlier this year there was a fourth entry of the case committed to film called THE FALL OF THE ESSEX BOYS . Really British film producers need to get a grip and make up their own stories

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Jnoirnoir1032
2010/09/08

How many times will low budget tales about these Essex lads need to be told. The film made no effort to show anything other than the tough guy 'gangster' side of Tucker or Tate. They were thoroughly unlikeable, and whilst Hassan gives a decent performance, I still couldn't care less about the fate of his gobby bully. Stone, meanwhile fares less well. Not sure what this guys background is, but he's not a very convincing tough guy. I think he has a slight speech impediment which may have been a character choice, but it didn't seem right for the part. I didn't believe him at all, and he only really seems to have one emotion. Angry swearing. The direction is competent without ever being very imaginative, and the film does seem to have been put together quite well, zipping along at a good old pace. It's not a terrible film, it's just not really very interesting. It's been done better, many times, before. There is a very clear market for these films, and I guess whilst this obsession with cockney geezers remains we can expect more offerings like this one. Shame.

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drewucl7
2010/09/09

As someone whose taste in cinema does not usually run to much violence, choice language, or blood (vampires excepted); I really enjoyed this film! No mere fest of foul language, tough guys, hot chicks, dangerous drugs, big guns, oh, and a Porche for good measure - although it's all there - "Bonded by Blood" has much more going for it. Cleverly directed by Sacha Bennett, this film has excellent touches of visual humour, some very funny lines, and a number of intense performances. There is even a Shakespeare reference - but don't let that put you off! Tamer Hassan as Pat Tate, high on cocaine and drunk on machismo is superbly scary. You have to duck when he starts pumping out the expletives. Altogether a much classier offering than previous efforts in this genre.

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