Wild Bill has charm, wit and plenty of morals (MAIL ON LINE)

Verdict: Enjoyable and Engaging

This gangster's to die for: Unlike Guy Ritchie's flippant Lock Stock, British movie Wild Bill has charm, wit and plenty of morals

By CHRIS TOOKEY PUBLISHED: 17:27 EST, 22 March 2012 | UPDATED: 05:37 EST, 23 March 2012

Just when many of us wanted never to suffer through another British gangster film, along comes the best of the lot — a picture that sums up everything that’s good about British movie-making. It’s quirky, warm and charming. It’s also well acted, beautifully written and superbly directed.

Like Billy Elliot before it, it inventively recycles dozens of tired cliches to come up with something fresh and exciting. There’s unlikely to be a more entertaining British film this year. Charlie Creed-Miles gives the performance of his life as Wild Bill, a once violent, now befuddled criminal just released after eight years in prison.

He drops in on his old council flat in East London, and discovers his wife has gone on permanent vacation to Spain with her new squeeze. They’ve abandoned Bill’s understandably angry 15-year-old son Dean (Will Poulter, the outstanding young actor from Son Of Rambow and Voyage Of The Dawn Treader) and his wayward little brother Jimmy (Sammy Williams, a diminutive urchin who made brief but memorable contributions to Attack The Block).


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