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A crude, reactionary crime-comedy with little dramatic payoff, more interested in lad-culture provocation than character growth. The tone and humor seem to alienate as many viewers as they entertain, and the film’s transphobic and bitterly retrograde attitude is a major liability.
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Fri · 1h 36m
Director: Nick Love
Starring: Danny Dyer, Stephanie Leonidas, Calum MacNab
Middle-aged Jack, arrested for drugs, strives in six weeks to repair his marriage, curb a bullying in-law, and guide his stepbrother in the right direction, but all efforts fail as his life spirals further out of control.
Nick Love
Danny Dyer, Stephanie Leonidas, Calum MacNab
A crude, reactionary crime-comedy with little dramatic payoff, more interested in lad-culture provocation than character growth. The tone and humor seem to alienate as many viewers as they entertain, and the film’s transphobic and bitterly retrograde attitude is a major liability.
Marching Powder plays like a throwback to the ugliest strain of British geezer cinema: loud, crude, self-satisfied, and convinced that offensiveness is the same thing as wit. It follows a middle-aged man trying to fix his life, but the premise quickly gives way to repetition, bluster, and a worldview that feels stuck in the past.
The reviews suggest a film that mistakes provocation for personality, with the comedy landing as tired banter rather than sharp social observation. Even when it reaches for chaos or pathos, it seems to undercut itself with the same macho, resentful energy.
If you like your crime comedies ugly, aggressively local, and built around laddish swagger, there may be a sliver of appeal here. For most viewers, though, this looks more exhausting than entertaining, and more embarrassing than transgressive.
delia (2★) · 673 likes
DAY IN THE LIFE OF A TRUE BREXIT GEEZER 👴🏻 Wake up and meet the wife Susan 👵🏻 My little princess, isn’t she beautiful 👸🏼 Time to take George to Football ⚽️ Rev up the Bughatti wheyyyy 🚗 Quick stop at Toby’s and load up that plate 🍽️ Get a pint 🍺 Pitch looking lovely today lads 🏟️ Just a bit of banter 🤣 Chippy makes a 38-0 loss better 🐟 Pop down local pride, good old pie look at that 🥧 Susan made dinner, lovely 🍴 Pop down and have a couple pints with the lads 🍻🍻🍻
Sethsreviews (1★) · 416 likes
Diabolical. awful. a project created exclusively for middle-aged 3/4 short-wearing blokes who spend summer sat topless outside the local green king drinking Carling. As the great Thomas Gray once said, “All the lads. Lads, lads, lads!”
⋆.ೃ𖥔 ݁ ˖laura ⋆˚࿔ (1★) · 391 likes
had my head in my hands within the first 30 seconds
Jim Caddick (3★) · 314 likes
The 18+ warning at the start warned us about foul language, violence and sex references For a film literally named ‘cocaine’, luckily there weren’t any drugs
Joe Sutherland (1★) · 240 likes
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