Plot: An attractive gang girl is harassed and assaulted by her gang. A elderly witness tries to help her and it's the last thing he does. Turns out that he and his brother, who now lives a life of quiet luxury on the Spanish Coast used to run everything illegal in this same area many years ago. All acting is good, but there's no brilliance there since everybody are playing charactures of themselves. This high quality production uses a few sets to establish that the new gangs are absent any values or redeeming qualities. The script has the audience wishing for a resurgence of the more moral gangs of the past. The brother comes to London for the funeral in a chartered, or private, helicopter. He amasses his old lieutenants (those still alive) and vows justice. His former mistress still lives in the hood and finds a filming of the double assault on the darknet. So the brother has an target for his revenge. The film is fun, but it has its weaknesses. First, the old gang is almost portrayed as Romantic and Noble especially when compared to the callous, contemporary youth gangs who are naive to the area's history. The former mobsters are cliches pulled right out of dozens of movies/books. Ah, but so what?... We need an anti-hero to clean up this neighborhood! It turns out the assaulted remains loyal to the gang and her boyfriend who's reluctantly in the gang, and who by-the-way is the daughter of the police inspector investigating the murder. The mother is clueless that her daughter was in the middle of it. Maybe the handsome but elderly monster will help her like a fairy godfather and not tell the well intentioned but hapless, beautiful blond inspector. For those the hardened fan of justice and mobster films, we are rooting for the old guys. And the writers leave an opening for a sequel or series of them. A little too cliche, but a good way to spend 90 minutes.
Review of We Still Kill the Old Way
