Geronimo1967
Despite the bests efforts of the usually reliable, if hardly versatile, Tom Bell to rescue this pedestrian story of Londons most infamous gangsters, this really doesnt light any touch papers. Perhaps because neither Martin nor Gary Kemp are much good as actors, nor do either of them exude any sense of menace as this rather tepid biopic trundles along for two hours. Reggie (Martin) and gay brother Ronnie (Gary) are determined to impress their mother (the underused Billie Whitelaw) with a criminal enterprise that was able to thrive as the city and the country strove to recover from the Second World War. What does work here is the exposure of the sub-culture of criminality that prevailed in what was little better than a lawless East End of Lon...