Gangster No. 1

(2000)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 247 votes

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime

Year: 2000

Runtime: 103 мин

Country: Germany, Ireland

Director: Пол Макгиган

Cast: Пол Беттани, Малкольм Макдауэлл, Дэвид Тьюлис, Jamie Foreman, Саффрон Берроуз, Кеннет Крэнем, Эдди Марсан, Эндрю Линкольн, Doug Allen, Разаак Адоти

Plot

An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.

A middle-aged crime boss smugly reflects back from 1999, narrating the brutality which made him triumphant - and feared. As an unnamed young hood in Swinging 60's London, he aped his mod boss Freddie Mays, and seemed to do anything for him. But his narration exposes all-consuming envy: of Freddie's supremacy, and especially his tall bird. The baby shark develops his viciousness and backstabbing, scheming to be Gangster No. 1.