Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

witster18 Rare do films slip past my radar like this, but a netflix research project where I listed about 10-fairly well-received films that I hadn't seen, led me to watch "Wild Bill".The formula is rather simple, and certainly nothing we haven't seen before, but then why in the heck does this work so well?So only super-mild spoilers here in a 1 sentence synopsis;nothing you couldn't have gathered from reading the plot summary above. Bill returns home from a 8-year prison stint to find his two sons living unsupervised.What makes "Wild Bill" work so well is the characters and their journeys. Bill, his eldest son, the youngest(Jimmy), and Bill's girlfriend all go through serious changes in the film. Every character-arc fits perfectly into the film's storyline, and the acting is spot-on to boot. Nothing seems forced or unrealistic.Another great thing about the movie is the ending. It really builds towards a crescendo, and the ending is bittersweet. There's something magical about the emotional scene late in the film where Bill has no other choice, just the primal instinct to protect his boys.At a point midway through the film, something clicks with Bill. We see two boys believing they were men when they really weren't, and one man not realizing how to be one until the moment when he recognized what was actually worth living for.. "Wild Bill" is a soulful, heart-breaking and mending story with some solid performances, a nice soundtrack, and great ending.It's a Full Monty meets Green Street Hooligans, and it's every bit as good as both.HIGhly recommended.78/100

Adam Peters (58%) To make yet another low budgeted cockney based crime drama is a bit like making yet another low budget zombie horror, it's something that has been done and done and done. So to stand out from the pack it really needs to be a sizeable step up from the more average entries. And I'm glad to report that this is. The first time feature film director Dexter Fletcher really has created something that shows the near impossible situation ex-cons face, and not in the more lazily way of gang intimidation to get back into a life of crime, but home and family life too. It also helps that the writing feels like something that was actually worked on rather than scribbled down on a bit of paper during shooting. While the performances are all pretty good, even if a couple of the side characters are a little underwritten. Overall a really quite solid crime drama with more than a few nice touches of comedy, a cool soundtrack, and more than a bit of heart, all set in the backdrop of a harsh London neighbourhood that's constantly changing.

shejiang1019 1.I must admit that this British movie make my long and black night smooth and gender, because you can see the process of love, gender and growing up in this movie, especially the characters in this movie are carving so lovely, deeply,realistically and vividly. Bill was portrayed so well, within restraining his behavior and following the rules as a rightful person, even though there is a monster in his mind.2. This movie makes me feel smooth and comfortable, especially when you feel the fathers' deep and warm heart to their son. It is really good and happy to see a separating family reunion together after the process from distrust to trust, the angry face to sending coffee slinking to his father, the decision of leaving to a new city to staying with their children. These beautiful story and scene really make me resonate with this special British movie. 3. The good movie doesn't need strong or immense story structure, but it is really important to find the right position of the movie and build a great story based on this position. For example, if the director focuses on the tender feeling side of the story, the fighting scene and the angry and revenge showing after teasing for a long time could be regarded as bedding to the tender side , within dealing as beyond endurance and fearing to the reality and losing their children. 4. Actually this is a tight and realistic movie, especially when Bill would rather admit his feeble to the leader of the gangster in front of his children and realistic happy ending is supported by this movie, because Bill was taken by the police,within a big smile when he saw his children and family waiting for him. The happy mood at that moment was shown by comparison by Bill talked the story to his children that he was bullied in the prison.

Prismark10 Actor Dexter Fletcher turns to directing and armed with a small budget he seems he has turned to some friends such as Sean Pertwee, Andy Serkis and Olivia Williams to make cameos who appear for a scene or two in the film.The main performances are from Charlie Creed-Miles who is Wild Bill, and his two sons played by Will Poulter and Sammy Williams. Creed-Miles plays a man released from a eight years stretch under licence and finds out that his two young children living alone for the last nine months as their mother has hopped it to Spain.In order for them not to be taken into care he has to be a father to them and gain there respect as he had had no presence in their lives due to his stint in jail.Poulter who is better known though the Narnia films and We're the Millers gives the best performance as a 15 year old who has to work in a building site and fend for his younger sibling. He is matched by Creed- Miles who has to take responsibility maybe for the first time in his life whilst try to keep in the straight and narrow by avoiding the low life who want him to go back to drug dealing and deal with the trouble his youngest son has got himself into.The film is set in Stratford in the shadow of the London Olympic Stadium, its setting is a year before the 2012 Olympics. It does have a very cliché looking urban tower block London setting. It kinds of reminds you of all those Death Wish type films of the 1970s set in New York where you have muggers, drug dealers and rapists in every corner, far outnumbering just ordinary people getting on with their lives. What is worse you have some white people speaking black patois which is very irritating.It is low budget movie making, the film has heart, a very good staged fight scene set in a pub and apart from a paper plane flying scene very little cinematic flair, it could be something British directors such as Alan Clarke could had knocked out rather easily 30 years ago for Play for Today.