Barry Trotter A lot of reviews seem to slag of this film because it's Tarantino style, It most certainly is, does that mean it's not great, no certainly not. It's brilliant, it's funny and pathetic, it's comic book , every character is Perfectly cast. Many scenes are quite gruesome but it's all surreal ! There are only two DVD that I watch every year, Hard Men and Ghormenghast. If you have never seen this treat yourself, you will Not be disappointed.Just buy the DVD and enjoy you have nothing to lose BT

hacenea Dark, funny, inventive, sly. Loved the style, actors and overall atmosphere. Looks like that viewers who didn't like the film didn't get the very dark, dry sense of humour. Made way before Lock Stock, it's the Godfather of British gangster flicks made in the Cool Britannia era! Watch and enjoy! It's the "business"!

Gubby-Allen Spoilers (not that there was much to spoil)Hard Men often threatened to be quite good but never was. Ross Boatman was the pick of the actors & I thought the main three were all ok. The problem with the film was that the first ten minutes set up all the characters & a plot, but then that was it. Nothing new was introduced from then on, either via character or plot. Consequently, all we were left with was the group arguing amongst themselves & inevitably shooting each other until only one was left for the remaining hour & a half.4/10

synno A firecracker of a film, except that it was exposed to dampness for too long and fails to ignite. The premise is appealing enough: a 3-man gang of East London thugs do the business for the guvnor, one "sees the light" and wants out, the others get the order to eradicate him for whatever reasons. Tension, action, exploration of a conscience-troubled character would all seem to be laid out against the backbone of the plot to make for riveting viewing. However, what we get is a clumsy, crude, badly reworked mish-mash of other films, mainly plagiarising the Quentin chap. The jokes are frankly not funny and the dialogue so depressingly unimaginative. Bad language may add to authenticity, but (unless you write like Roddy Doyle) is not the key to belly laughs. "Hard Men" wavers between wanting to be uncompromising in its violence and wanting to please all by brightening things with colourful characters. Violent it certainly is, but the attempts at humour derail the carriage, leaving the viewer with a feeling of disappointment at what could have been, given tighter scripting, better actors, an engaging score and greater focus. "Lock, Stock ..." is a long way ahead of this in all stakes.