Watch: The Smoke 2014 123movies, Full Movie Online – City lawyer Brad Walker (Matt di’Angelo) is having the worst day of his life. His high-maintenance girlfriend Sasha (Anna Passey) has left him for his so-called friend Tom (Christian Brassington) and to add insult to injury, he’s been fired too. On a night out drowning his sorrows with old friend Dean (Jeff Leach), he overhears a conversation between Phil (Darren Ripley) and Ben (Stephen Marcus) – two drug dealers working for small-time gangster Jack (Alan Ford) – that will change his life forever….
Plot: City lawyer Brad Walker (Matt di’Angelo) is having the worst day of his life. His high-maintenance girlfriend Sasha (Anna Passey) has left him for his so-called friend Tom (Christian Brassington) and to add insult to injury, he’s been fired too. On a night out drowning his sorrows with old friend Dean (Jeff Leach), he overhears a conversation between Phil (Darren Ripley) and Ben (Stephen Marcus) – two drug dealers working for small-time gangster Jack (Alan Ford) – that will change his life forever…
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Awful, and then some
I saw this film repackaged as London Payback, with a cover to make it look like a London gangster film. It really isn’t. Instead what we get is an ultra-cheap romance/crime thriller in which a young man is having a very bad day and must use his wits and experience to see him through. This film feels very much like one of those cheaply-made Danny Dyer films set in London, except it’s even worse than that. Somebody must have been convinced that Matt Di Angelo had the presence to hold a film together, but he really doesn’t – and this is from somebody who liked him in EASTENDERS.The gangster stuff that plays out is clichéd and unfunny, and features over the top performances from actors who typically play bit part or background actors in other gangster films (Stephen Marcus and Velibor Topic in particular) but are given leading roles here. Oh, and Alan Ford is on board too, playing yet another version of his villain character from SNATCH. Ricky Groves (Garry in EASTENDERS) has a cameo. From the first minute to the last, everything is predictable, and the quality of the camera-work is so poor that this looks like a homemade movie. Surely this has to be the lowest common denominator of the British gangster genre?
FREE YOUR MIND
Possible midpoint plot spoiler.Brad Walker (Matt Di Angelo) gets his walking papers in the first few minutes of the film and his girlfriend also leaves him (Anna Passey) for his friend Tom (Christian Brassington). While doing a few lines on a bowl in a nightclub he overhears about a drop-off which he copies down because…he does. Then by coincidence the car doing the drop off just so happens to stop in front of the little cafe he is sitting at…facing the license plate of said car. While the driver leaves for a quick pit stop, Brad steals the car, makes the drop, collects the cash in what would seem to be a clean get away. Not only unbelievably do the bad guys figure out it is him, but a high price mobster prostitute lands in his lap the same day.
Now I don’t mind one or two freakish events in a story. Heck, if you are going for a weird cult film, the more the merrier. However this film lacks the over the top grindhouse style to get away with a bunch of stuff that just wouldn’t happen. I found the main characters to be dull. Our two stooges who botched things up were the only decently written characters as the talked about films, i.e. “Godfather vs Star Wars.”
Could have been better.
F-bomb, sex, nudity (Lili Bordán, Anna Passey, Lindsay Armaou, Funda Önal, Nicola Kelleher ?)
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 29 min (89 min) (UK studio release cut) (UK)
Budget 0
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Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Crime, Romance, Thriller
Director Ben Pickering
Writer Darren Ripley
Actors Matt Di Angelo, Lili Bordán, Stephen Marcus
Country United Kingdom, France
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Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1, 2.35 : 1 (2019 re-release)
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