There have been a couple of previous films about the Essex Range Rover murders. Both were pretty forgettable but neither are anywhere near as bad as Bonded by Blood. It's quite a rare thing to have a film where every actor on display is no good. You usually get one stand out performance but with this movie everyone stinks. Tamer Hussan plays his usual role as Mokney Cockney Essex wide boy and you wouldn't expect any different from a one trick pony actor like him but it grates on you when there are people trying to out " Essex " him on screen. Terry Stone and Neil Maskell are so over the top with their acting it's laughable. I also have problem with the director of this mess. It must have taken great skill for Sacha Bennett to make a film look such a mess.It has no form or structure and events happen with no explanation while other threads are dropped and forgotten about. The only good thing about Bonded by Blood is that the Essex tosser Danny Dyer isn't in it but that's hardly a reason to watch this trash. Avoid

Oh a British gangster film ? Do they still make them ? Maybe they do but they never ever meet with commercial success these days . Don't think I've seen a decent one since RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER that was based on a true story and featured Terry Stone playing a character called Tony Tucker and here Terry Stone is playing another character called Tony Tucker . Wow what a coincidence having the same actor playing a different character with the same name ! It get worse because he's not only playing a character with the same name he's playing the exact same character and the only difference is he's got a slightly different hairstyle !

This shows the banal insipid lazy thinking behind British film production . RISE OF THE FOOTSOLDIER didn't fare very well at the box office but I rate it as a tough British thriller . I can understand why critics didn't like that 2007 with the somewhat formulaic with an excess of characters screaming " FAHK " and " KHANT " and perhaps a little too much interest of portraying on screen violence that culminated in the 1993 Rettendon murders . If you've seen that film then there's little need to watch this one which is inferior to its predecessor apart from Mr Stone's hairstyle

BONDED BY BLOOD follows the criminal career of several characters who sell drugs , beat people and eventually meet a sticky end . There's not a single sentence spoken that doesn't involve the F or C word . What does it bring to the table that hasn't been done before or better ? Absolutely nothing except to state that the people serving life for murder might be innocent so what better than to show them committing a triple murder on screen . Yeah I'm sure that's going to get the case to the court of appeal

This is actually the third film to use the Rettendon murders as it theme after the heavily fictionalised ESSEX BOYS from 2000 and the aforementioned FOOTSOLDIER . Unbelievably earlier this year there was a fourth entry of the case committed to film called THE FALL OF THE ESSEX BOYS . Really British film producers need to get a grip and make up their own stories

In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex.

The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England. Maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.

There is something comforting about a film starring Tamer Hassan. You know you are going to get swearing, and you know that you are not going to have to concentrate a lot, but you know you will enjoy it in some sort of masochistic way.

And when you get the added bonus of it being about gangsters, and also completely 'true', films like this are a must.

You can tick all the boxes to any brit gangster film released in the last lifetime.

There is a torture scene.

There is a woman crying at a phone box with a kid

There is driving with drugs and a blonde woman

There is a murder at point blank range with a shotgun

and there is a man killed at the beginning, and then him narrating the film, and then at the end, the same scene at the beginning played again.

For those who like these kind of films, it's effortless, made at the Nick Love movie school for geezers, and wears this on it's sleeve.

Not original, not clever, average performances, but worth watching.