London Heist (2016) – Mark McQueen.

'He's a no good, dog cunt wrong 'un!!!!'

Charismatic man-cake Craig Fairbrass plays formidable blag artist Jack Cregan, the brawny brains behind a successful series of high profile heists in Mark McQueen's pacey gangland thriller London Heist. While the serviceable plot and dialogue aren't too lively, they are given additional pep by a fine cast of familiar faces, with national treasure James Cosmo being on chillingly understated, especially menacing form. With a couple of enjoyably boisterous set-pieces, London Heist proved far more compelling that I had imagined, and to the director's credit, the lairy, lad-tastic shenanigans climaxes bloodily in a thrillingly muscular manner. If you're going to hire someone to repeatedly snarl 'Slimy Cunt!', and other equally savoury epithets, you certainly can't do much better than Steven Berkoff! I must hereby confess to being an avid fan/collector of the Brit-Thug milieu, so in many instances I tend to be a trifle overgenerous with my praise, so I think fellow fans will appreciate London Heist more than those who wouldn't know a Long Boat from a cushty portion of Salmon Rushdie.