Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

freemantle_uk In 1998 Guy Ritchie made a little British comedy gangster film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. This film mixed comedy with a crime film and had a number of story lines going at the same time. Whether by accident or by design Love, Honour and Obey came out soon afterwards.Jonny (Jonny Lee Miller) is a courier who gets his long-time friend, Jude (Jude Law), to introduce him to his uncle, gangster Ray Kreed (Ray Winstone). Jonny comes up with a good scheme to steal credit cards but slowly he gets bored with the gangsters. When the North London firm run into conflict with a South London gang run by Sean (Sean Pertwee), Jonny ends up disliking one of his henchmen, Matthew (Rhys Ifan). Jonny with Jude starts to secretly steal from Sean's gang so they can cause a war between the two gangs.Love, Honour and Obey is a strangle film, mixing comedy with direction that at times is gritty scenes, with realistic violence. Some of the comedy can raise a smile, but others are forced and drawn out, like when the North London gang dress up as Middle-Eastern shrieks and have large erections after taking Viagra. Like Ritchie's gangster films there are a number of sub-plots, like Ray's relationship and up-coming marriage to actress Sadie (Sadie Frost) and Ray the bodyguard's (Ray Burdis) impotence and troubled sex life with his wife (Kathy Burke). But whilst with Ritchie films the subplots do interlink, in Love, Honour and Obey it more a way to stretch the plot.The direction by Dominic Anciano and Ray Burdis is very disjoined. They use a hand-held style with few cuts, giving the film a edgy feel and attempt to make the surroundings and violence realistic: but this is put next to comic scenes like Ray the bodyguard experimenting with sex toys. There is also a surreal sequence when Jonny comes up in to explain events that happened dressed as a clown (which is explained at the end). That sequence itself reminded me of Bronson (a film released 9 years later), but it was more fitting in Bronson. The film cuts quickly between scenes, not willing to focus on one element for very long, audiences need a little build up. The film also shows to have a limited budget, with some actions being done off scene and others being explained. There is a good action scene which is a gunfight at a building site, but seeing that had men with shotguns and AK-47s and one of the men is meant to be a former soldier, it is remarkable no one was killed. It did not help the film when there are people being beating up and the sound effects are stupidly over the top and the LSD experience one of the characters has is one of the worst put to screen: it was like the directors could not be bothered.The acting in the film is fine: Ray Winstone is basically a thug for hire. No one was bad but it was only Rhys Ifans who really stood out in the film and you properly end up routing for him more then Jonny because Jonny is unlikable little toad. One think that annoyed me was almost all the characters use their own names and I wonder what's the point. I bet the writers/directors would argue they did it to give the film a more real/documentary feel, but I believe the real reason is that they were too lazy to do basics like develop characters when writing the script.I think there were basic elements that could have worked in a better film, like a young man who has a good idea for a scheme joins a group of gangsters and ends up going in over his head when violence and more messy crimes start to happen. Or they could be a story about a low level gangster secretly starting a war with another gang because he was bored or did not like a rival gangster or killing a man he simply did not like starts to escalates matters. Or even a more simply a violent psychopath joins a major gang/crime firm. Some of these idea are similar to A Fistful of Dollars and Yojimbo but they could work in a modern context. I also thought that the gang itself was going to be a family affair, like the Mafia, which would have been an interest dynamic for a British gangster film.Overall. Love, Honour and Obey is a typical mediocre British gangster that the low budget companies often produced. These films tend to overly violence with a rudimentary plot, set out to either cash in on a big fan base or simply a stepping stone for an actor or director.

Stuart Johnson A stellar cast cannot save this horror show "mish-mash" of genres, that can never be sure what it wants to be. The comedy is crude, lazily written and totally unfunny, and the plot is a complete mess of meaningless "what shall we do next" storytelling, that goes nowhere. Jonny goes from courier to killer in a matter of frames, the violence is actually so bad that the punch and gun fire noises sound like they have been stolen from a 50's western. The words "small budget crap" sum up this tosh. I guess this would only appear on the CV of Miss Van Outen, the rest of them would surely be too embarrassed. Lock Stock this certainly isn't!

Gargnano Does this movie suffer from confused tonality? Absolutely not. The comic undertones,fancy dress and karaoke all work perfectly within the context of the plot and within the carrier provided by the well-drawn characters. If you're looking for Hollywood plot lines, bad guys in black hats, and predictable 'hero walking into the sunset endings' then skip this movie. If, on the other hand, you want a highly entertaining, very well-written, wonderfully acted drama with an extremely well-chosen soundtrack then Love, Honour and Obey is a perfect choice. Johnny Lee Miller never disappoints and is perfectly convincing in the lead role. Ray Winstone is, as ever, flawless. Together these 2 actors represent everything that is classy about the British film industry.The rest of the cast are just as strong. Dominic Anciano and Ray Burdis deserve huge slap on the back for this movie. I will be searching with interest for any further works by this talented team.

boomyphoenix Love Honour and Obey. What can I say. I'm female and I thought that this film was absolutely brilliant!!! I've never laughed at a film so much. The plot is not the most important thing about this film but the humour outclasses it. I have so many favourite bits in this film i will try to keep it to a minimum.1. Kathy Burke shouting 'Oooohh Giorgio Armani, Christian Dior, Vidal Sassoon' whilst she is being 'done' hanging out the window has me every time.2. Denise Van Outen's oral display with a cucumber. Classic! 3. Rhys Ifans head being skimmed by a bullet, then Sean smacks it, to which Rhys screams' Oh Me Hole, Me Hole' is just sheer genius.I could go on but i think i'd be here all night. If there's one film you have to see before you die, it's this one. CLASSIC!!