Business The BD [Blu-ray]

This is a quite watchable British gangster movie, but it's definitely not as good as "Sexy Beast" or even "Layer Cake". Below, more of my impressions, with some limited SPOILERS.This is the story of a young wannabe gangster named Frankie (Danny Dyer), who has to flee England and go to Spain, where he joins four real, hardened criminals - handsome "Playboy Charlie" (Tamer Hassan), psychopatic Sammy (Geoff Bell) as well as two less important characters, Ronnie and Danny. Those dangerous old timers, known as the "Peckham Four", are wanted in United Kingdom and therefore took refuge in Spain and live mostly from marijuana traffic. With time Frankie becomes a full time member of the gang, which in the meantime switched to the more lucrative cocaine business... He also attracts attention of Sammy's beautiful wife Carly (Georgina Chapman), which makes his life much more interesting - but also threatens his very survival...This is a quite classical gangster movie, about the rise and fall of a bunch of rather unsavory characters, of which the vilest and the most dangerous is certainly Sammy, a complete psychopath who is quite a fascinating person to watch, as long as he stays safely on the other side of the screen... As promised on the cover the language is particularly strong, even for a gangster movie - on another hand if you expect shootouts like in "Scarface" or "Heat", well, you will be very disappointed...It is not a bad film, to the contrary, I rather liked it, but other than a couple of real gags and some absolutely surrealistic and irresistible conversations it is nothing special. However the MUSIC in this film is absolutely PHENOMENAL - it is one of the best nostalgia trips into 80s I ever heard on the screen. Just to name some of the artists whose music we can enjoy here - Duran Duran, Blondie, Simple Minds, David Bowie, Talk Talk and of course Frankie Goes to Hollywood...Bottom line, this is a very honest watch albeit not really something extraordinary. I will keep my DVD and maybe one day I will see it again. Enjoy!

Best film ever . A must watch CLASSICAmazing sound track

Before anyone has a pop, let me just say you KNOW what you're getting with Danny Dyer, but this is an exception to the rule. This film is brilliant throughout, coupled with the genius casting of Tamer Hassan and directed by Nick Love who also directed them in Football Factory.Its like a British version of Scarface, with a much lower budget.......but it works! The comedy in it is sub-lime, VERY funny dialogue and a cast of familiar faces from other Brit flicks.Fantastic soundtrack throughout.Honestly, this is fantastic!

Good clear picture and sound quality good also. I have seen this movie many times and each time I watch it again it never fails to make me smile. Great British gangster movie with some all time favourite actors.

One of my favourite films.A bit rude / very gangster / druggy but brilliantly done.Classic film.

Has become my favourite crim flick over the years while I've gotten older and none the wiser.Fun fact - the femme fatale and love interest is none other than the future Mrs Harvey Weinstein.Brilliant 80s styling and music. Great fun.

Good acting generally except overplayed shooting scenes and unlikelihood of crooks decapitation inn the grounds of the mayors house - spoilt the story. Ladies a bit heavy on the over-acting too.

What's not to absolutely LOVE in this classic movie about a bunch of gangsters hiding out in the South of Spain as they attempt to re-energize their continental criminal careers? I am biased on this one, really, since it is filmed in the place where I have my holiday house (Nerja, Spain) and both myself and my oldest son speak Spanish - we all love it there.Therefore, here is my advice - if you love Spain, can't get enough of it - great stuff, this will be a 5 star movie for you all the way. If however Spain - and in particular the South of Spain - is not quite your thing - then give this one a quiet pass. :)

Ein Super Gangsterfilm, der in keiner Sammlung fehlen darf.Weil er im Zorn seinen Stiefvater erschlagen hat, muss Frankie schnellstens aus London verschwinden. Da kommt ihm das Angebot, dem Gangster Charlie eine Tasche voller Geld zu übergeben, gerade recht. Dieser, und sein brutaler Partner Sammy, haben sich mit Prostitution, Drogenhandel und Geldwäsche an der Costa del Sol ein florierendes Geschäft aufgebaut. Während Charlie Frankie unter seine Fittiche nimmt und ihn in alle Geheimnisse des “Business” einweiht, macht Sammy mit seinen Gewaltexzessen Frankie das Leben schwer. Nach und nach wird aus dem anfangs schüchternen Jungen aus London ein größenwahnsinniger Ganove, der sich immer mehr gegen seinen einstigen Mentor Charlie stellt.

Kultfilm. Hammer Musik.Top Bild und Ton.Pflichtkauf.

Ich muss gestehen ich bin ein Fan der GTA Spiele und wenn man Vice City mag, dann mag man auch diesen Film!Der Film hat vom Anfang bis zum Ende eine tolle Atmosphäre und ein cooles Flair... Auch die Schauspieler sind wirklich gut passen einfach rein.Ist echt empfehlenswert.

Ein Film für Fans

Excellent, love it

Zum Inhalt ist ja schon genug geschrieben worden und auf dem DVD-Cover werden Vergleiche mit Mafiaklassikern wie "Casino", "Good Fellas" und "Scarface" gemacht, was natürlich lächerlich ist.Dennoch handelt es sich bei "The Business" um einen gelungenen und souverän inszeniertes Mafia-Kleinod, dass sich selbst nicht allzu ernst nimmt. Und genau das ist es im Zusammenhang mit dem richtigen Timing für Humor, was den Film so sehenswert macht. Was auch klasse ist, sind die verschiedenen 80er Jahre Soundtracks, welche zwischendurch in den Discoszenen eingespielt werden (Blondie, David Bowie, Simple Minds, uvm.)Fazit: Erwartungen nicht zu hochschrauben und wenigstens mal ausleihen aus der Videothek.Achtung: Bei Kauf darauf achten, die ungeschnittene Version zu bekommen die mit FSK 18 eingestuft wurde. Es gibt auch eine gekürzte 16er Fassung.

Eines Vorweg: Mir hat der Film gut gefallen. Trotzdem: gegenüber den großen US Produktionen dieses Genres (BLOW, SCARFACE...) merkt man diesem Machwerk schon ein wenig das fehlende Budget an. Alles ist ein wenig kleiner, weniger gut gespielt und ausgestattet. Aber vielleicht trägt dieser Umstand ja auch ein wenig zum Flair dieses Films bei.Soundtrack ist top. Die Story wird mir gegen Ende ein bisschen zu "ungenau", das Ende ist ein bisschen gar arg unbefriedigend. Aber : die bösen Brits in Spanien machen "Spaß". Nice!

Ein Höhepunkt britischen Humors! Im Spanien der 80er Jahre versuchen sich ein paar möchtegern Profis als Drogenschmuggler. Das geht natürlich voll in die Hose. Bekannte Gesichter mit einer Menge kuriosen Einfällen, einfach super!

Although not a fan of gangster movies, I love English and Irish films. I first saw Danny Dyer in "Severance" and then without realizing it recognized him in "The Football Factory". As I looked to see what other movies he was in, one of them was "The Business". I didn't think I'd like it because it was described as a gangster film but I loved it. Just because the guy he is supposed to meet is called 'the playboy' in the very beginning doesn't mean anything. He's never called the playboy any other time throughout the movie. It is such an upbeat movie-the music alone makes it entertaining to watch. I thought it was very different than an American gangster movie. Danny's character, Frankie and the supposed gangster, Charlie, become real friends, not just gangsters shooting everyone and trying to make money. I thought it was a great movie! I've come to buy all of Danny Dyer's films but this one, I can watch over and over again and I still love it!

love the soundtrack to this movie especially from frankie goes to Hollywood welcome to the pleasuredome listenin to this song gave me goosebumps

I'd give zero Stars if possible. These blue Ray movies Will not play on blue ray players in the united states,I imagine it's because they are from the uk and probably only play on their players. I tried a regular blue Ray player next ps3 and last c box one. I though it might have been the disk but I purchased another movie from them same distributor and it was the same thing. I'm very disappointed and I should have known better than to buy things from overseas and these were awesome movies...

Great movie, quirky.

saw this for the first time in high school once, then could never find it again. so happy i found it. it is a mixture of blow and goodfellas for sure and the ending is the best unlike both of the other movies i mentioned this movie has a great ending. the characters also are the best part they are all so real while your watching and the way the picture is shot is great. all around awesome movie deff. worth a watch.

great

Although the DVD was received in good time and in excellent condition its worth mentioning to overseas buyers to always check the region code of the DVD's you purchase. A DVD coded for the US market or for European will not automatically play on a DVD player which coded for Australasia. Many DVD players can be code broken but its not a certainty. My old DVD player had been decoded to accept all regions but a few months ago I purchased a new player and then had to go through the exercise of surfing the web in order to find out if it was possible on the new Phillips 3D DVD player. Good news for this purchase was that I could decode for standard DVD's but it's not possible for Blue Ray or 3D discs.