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09/08/07
Sugarhouse (2007)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:5
Rotten:12
Average Rating:4.3/10
Starring: Steven Mackintosh, Ashley Walters, Andy Serkis
Reviews for Sugarhouse
1 - 18 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Three good actors get hijacked by a talky, pointless script.
08/28/07
Top CriticStrains so hard to establish some sort of rough street cred that it ends up feeling artificial.
08/24/07
The film, in the end, looks very much like an adaptation of one of those preachy plays that tries too hard to tell it like it is among the underclass.
08/24/07
Directed by Gary Love, early shots promise much but it never delivers. Essentially a Play For Today, with more crack and a syrupy ending you can see coming.
08/24/07
In Gary Love's determinedly gritty Brit-crim movie, three good actors chase around a script that keeps promising more than it delivers.
08/24/07
What justified filming Dominic Leyton's play Collision is hard to see, but the decisions taken in opening it out are what truly wreck Gary Love's misbegotten attempt to do so.
08/24/07
Dominic Leyton’s script from his play starts as a flicker of fancy words and ends as a verbose fireball consuming all reality.
08/24/07
Mackintosh's character is a bit sketchy, and his occasional, dramatic interventions were not really believable.
08/24/07
Top CriticThe script invokes sympathy for the characters only at the end – and by then the audience will probably have ceased to care.
08/24/07
Less a movie and more a sustained panic attack, Sugarhouse is so unrelentingly violent, it’s like being beaten with a housebrick for 90 minutes.
08/24/07
A low-budget Brit-flick that bucks against the usual "urban cinema" conventions while showcasing its talented cast. Although it runs out of steam, its opening energy and verve are impressive.
08/24/07
Feeling like a short that’s been stretched out and mugged of its unpredictable tensions, it’s a static slice of ghetto hell.
08/24/07
Although the writing’s exploration of common humanity across the social divide offers occasional worthwhile moral provocation, its evident theatricality also works against any sense of urban authenticity.
08/24/07
A grimy, rage-filled film. Shame about the middle bit.
08/24/07
Despite thin caricatures and dodgy dialogue, this still stands out on the street.
08/24/07
Top CriticWatchable, energetically directed thriller that doesn't quite come together, despite decent performances from Mackintosh and Walters.
08/23/07
In the bristling and brutal crime thriller Sugarhouse, Andy Serkis delivers a performance that makes his turn as King Kong look like Johnny Vegas's knitted monkey sidekick.
08/21/07
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