Very British Gangster (A)

A fat, violent, ugly, gay, psychopathic Catholic who, worryingly, surrounds himself with young men...

He seems to like prison, he has spent most of his life in one.

One thing in his favour, he has showmanship - he plays to and for the camera.

The whole film is overly composed and obviously staged - rendering it useless.

Noonan is simple - plain stupid. He - amply - articulates this stupidity with appropriate swearing and monosyllabic mutterings - he has nothing, of value, to say.

We can all laugh at him since, as a career criminal, he has spent most of his life behind bars - not too clever.

When not incarcerated he lives in cheap ill-fitting suits adorned with Argos jewellery... ultimately, it is all so despairingly desolate amid the tacky classlessness.

Unworthy film of an unworthy subject.

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