FountainPen With a strong, positive message to youth BUT instead it's just a loud, noisy, trashy piece of cr*p, with loads of emphasis on violence, drugs and sex. A real shame. I rate it 1 out of 10. Don't bother with it. I rate it 1 out of 10. Don't bother with it. I rate it 1 out of 10. Don't bother with it. I rate it 1 out of 10. Don't bother with it. I rate it 1 out of 10. Don't bother with it. I rate it 1 out of 10. Don't bother with it.

blanche-2 Four young female friends in England (Ophelia Lovibond, Shanika Warren- Markland, Emma Roberts, Tamsin Egerton) have individual adventures, all of which end up connected to a huge diamond heist.Cassandra (Egerton), from a wealthy family, travels to New York City for an audition with an important piano teacher and also to meet her Internet boyfriend. Jo (Roberts), to help her family, has to work in a 7-11 type store at night. Kerrys (Warren-Markland) is a lesbian rebelling against her family, particularly her half-brother; and Shannon (Lovibond) is desperately unhappy, feels she has no one to talk to, abandoned by her mother, and contemplating suicide.Using the Pulp Fiction-Jackie Brown format, we see how each woman becomes involved with one another over three nights and what leads them to their involvement in a diamond heist, which during the film is being broadcast on TV in many scenes. I thought this was well done and appeals to a young crowd. The friends are beautiful and going through passages like losing virginity, trying to get accepted in an important school, parents breaking up, blended families, driving tests and the like. When Cassandra, a stunning blond, goes to New York for her audition, at one point she is walking around wearing a long sweater. That's it, a long sweater and nothing on her long, gorgeous legs. No woman walks around New York City like that. I don't mean to imply that you're "asking for it" - no - but for most women, the harassment, the men following you, and the whistling can be scary and/or annoying and not worth it, especially for someone new to the city.There are very funny as well as dramatic sections; this winds up as an entertaining film, a little longer than it needed to be, but fun.

lllolaaa I've not watched Adulthood or Kidulthood so perhaps I might have missed out on some background information on this film, but I thought this was a load of rubbish. There are some scenes that so disbelieving that there was no way I could take this film seriously. For example there was a scene where one of the main female character was upset for some reason decided to sit on the ground huddled up next to an empty bench. Then two guys come and sit on the bench talking about a crime unaware that she's is there. No they didn't have white sticks either. Then while into the midst of their sensitive conversation, oh look, they 'suddenly' spot the girl even though she's only about a metre away! Then question and chase after her, didn't catch her even though it was two tall men and one upset girl with big coat and bag! The main part of this storyline is some stolen diamonds. So where and how do they get these stolen diamonds? Outside Westfields where a guy hands a bag of them to one 'badguy1' to which badguy1 then slowly examines one of the diamonds by holding up to the light in broad daylight..... outside the busy Westfields..... in front of all the shoppers and the four girls there.... stolen diamonds..... I got up to 20 minutes of the DVD and couldn't take anymore. Everyone tries too hard, so I guess this was an instruction from the producers or writers of this script than poor acting. It felt like an Eastenders version of Sex of the City with some over hyped view of 'estate ganstas'.

JoeytheBrit I read somewhere that Noel Clarke decided to write a film in which the four main characters were women because he was regularly knocked for his weak writing of female characters. Well, if that's the case, he still hasn't managed to snub a nose at his detractors with this gimmicky crime thriller that has four sassy girls getting caught up in the aftermath of a jewel robbery.While the film is entertaining enough (after a slow start), the story doesn't really make a lot of sense – something that isn't helped by the fact that Clarke elects to employ a non-chronological narrative which takes us back over the events of an eventful weekend as experienced by each of the girls. Clarke also gives himself too much to do with a cast that is about half-a-dozen characters too large. Despite this, there's ample evidence of Clarke's growing talents as both writer and director – and he's by far the best actor in the film.