Top Dog *
Dir: Martin
Kemp. With: Vincent Regan, Leo Gregory, Ricci Harnett. 94 mins. Cert: 18
Low-level
ladsploitation, directed by Spandau Ballet’s Martin Kemp and adapted by Green Street writer Dougie Brimson from
what’s billed as his “cult novel”, with family man Leo Gregory running into
trouble amid the North London protection rackets. “This is all a bit Lock, Stock, isn’t it?” muses one ne’er-do-well,
raising early hopes the genre might finally have become self-aware, but Kemp
assembles the subsequent rucking in taprooms and damp backalleys with scant
style or wit: the incidental music’s particularly offensive, and it’s forever
dubious around women. DVD beckons, yet the content is so leaden as to
make that Spandau reunion seem creatively worthwhile.
Top Dog opens in selected cinemas today, ahead of its DVD release on Monday.
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