The Business DVD

Advantages: Geoff Bell as Sammy - An unpredictable permed timebomb!
Disadvantages: Nick Love's worst film yet!

= THE BUSINESS on DVD = Following the relative success of the ultimately disappointing "THE FOOTBALL FACTORY", Nick Love returns to the British film market with another predictable amalgamation of sex, drugs and mindless violence in a Costa Del Sol caper that exposes the limitations of a mediocre film director and his cast. Where Guy Ritchie took an ailing British film market and used the same ingredients to ...
...the industry further back than ever. "THE BUSINESS" is another bland testament to his shortfalls and lack of original ideas. Take the same cast, concept and camerawork from your last effort and do it all over again in the sunshine. In the words of pretty much every character to be scripted in a Nick Love offering, one feels tempted to ask that oft-coined phrase from our tepid Cockney friends. Are you trying to mug us off, or what? = THE ... Read review

Advantages: Some good performances
Disadvantages: A muddled directorial style and screenplay

...Frankie is forced to flee the country. He finds himself on the Costa Del Crime in the middle of Thatcher's eighties, where he falls in with local dope smuggler Charlie. Taken under his wing, Danny transforms from innocent naïf to Charlie's right-hand man, much to the disgust of his partner Sammy. Things are further complicated when the game changes from smuggling marijuana to trafficking cocaine, bringing with it the unwelcome attention of the local ...
...I personally don't understand the current fascination with the 1980s, having lived through the decade. As far as I'm concerned it was a tremendously shallow era indelibly etched on my brain in neon shades and forever in the shadow of unemployment, financial insecurity and the Cold War. Apparently writer-director Nick Love is of an entirely different opinion, celebrating the crass "me, me, me" attitude, the appalling fashion disasters and the incredible ... Read review

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...I first saw him in the Business, I was glued to the screen because he really is the eye candy of this film for any female. I have watched this over and over again, purely because its a great film, has a good storyline, the acting isn't too bad and it has a really good soundtrack. The story takes us back to the 80's, Frankie (Danny Dyer) is living in South London. He lives with his parents and detests his father because of the way that he treats ...
...age, where he influenced by the gangster lifestyle and thinks thats the sort of life he want to lead, an attractive yet dangerous life. Being asked to deliver a package to Malaga, he lands on the doorstep of a nightclub to deliver the package where is greeted by Charlie (Tamer Hassan). Charlie, the playboy, and also ex-con takes Frankie under his wing and gives him the opportunity to work for him. Living under his own roof, Frankie become's Charlies ... Read review

Advantages: Sunny
Disadvantages: Boring

The Business is set in the 1980s and tells the story of a young man from London who goes to work in Spain. The film is set in the Costa del Sol, The acting, the storyline and the script in this film is not very good.. I might recommended this film for the soundtrack but not much else because it really isn't that good. I rented this film without the additional disc of extras so I can't really tell you anything about them. Even so, I wouldn't bother ... Read review

Advantages: Cool soundtrack, perfect cast
Disadvantages: The misogynist director and the amount of swearing

...is a young kid on the un from the South London flats. He winds up in Malaga on an errand for an East-End gangster. He meets Charlie (Tamer Hassan) a smooth 80s playboy, and soon becomes part of his gang, entering a life of sex, drugs and violence. The film's director, Nick Love, has gone to great lengths to keep the film looking authentically 80s, from the clothes and cars to the fantastic soundtrack. Love manages to make the gang's lifestyle look ...
...is ultimately drugs which causes the lead characters downfall in the end.) nor does he preach about anything: the film isn't supposed to be a social commentary on the debauchery of the 80s, simply a heightened "slice of life". The way the film has been shot is also interesting. For example, in the "making of" documentary, Love explains that, everything at the beginning of the film when Frankie arrives in Malaga is shot so that everything looks impossibly ... Read review