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Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution review – never-ending hardman-on-a-mission franchise heads to Ibiza
The seventh in the series takes longstanding lead gangster Tate, played to the hilt as always by Craig Fairbrass, to the White Isle to knock some heads together The seventh instalment in this seemingly never-ending series opens with a line of voiceover from star Craig Fairbrass, summarising forthcoming proceedings nicely: “They killed my best friend, now they all have to die.” The real-life hardman Pat Tate might have been murdered in his 30s in Essex in 1995 , but that hasn’t proved a setback for his invincible fictionalised counterpart, played to the hilt throughout the entire franchise with hard-headed gusto by Fairbrass. In this one, Tate is in Ibiza, but rather than larging it, he’s intent on tracking down his enemies and exacting the titular retribution. Various arms dealers, guns for hire and, perhaps more unexpectedly, the CIA, provide a bit of grit in the oyster. The director he
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The seventh in the series takes longstanding lead gangster Tate, played to the hilt as always by Craig Fairbrass, to the White Isle to knock some heads together The seventh instalment in this seemingly never-ending series opens with a line of voiceover from star Craig Fairbrass, summarising forthcoming proceedings nicely: “They killed my best friend, now they all have to die.” The real-life hardman Pat Tate might have been murdered in his 30s in Essex in 1995 , but that hasn’t proved a setback for his invincible fictionalised counterpart, played to the hilt throughout the entire franchise with hard-headed gusto by Fairbrass. In this one, Tate is in Ibiza, but rather than larging it, he’s intent on tracking down his enemies and exacting the titular retribution. Various arms dealers, guns for hire and, perhaps more unexpectedly, the CIA, provide a bit of grit in the oyster. The director he
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution review – never-ending hardman-on-a-mission franchise heads to Ibiza, The seventh in the series takes longstanding lead gangster Tate, played to the hilt as always by Craig Fairbrass, to the White Isle to knock some heads together The seventh instalment in this seemingly never-ending series opens with a line of voiceover from star Craig Fairbrass, summarising forthcoming proceedings nicely: “They killed my best friend, now they all have to die.” The real-life hardman Pat Tate might have been murdered in his 30s in Essex in 1995 , but that hasn’t proved a setback for his invincible fictionalised counterpart, played to the hilt throughout the entire franchise with hard-headed gusto by Fairbrass. In this one, Tate is in Ibiza, but rather than larging it, he’s intent on tracking down his enemies and exacting the titular retribution. Various arms dealers, guns for hire and, perhaps more unexpectedly, the CIA, provide a bit of grit in the oyster. The director he
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