Johnny Was

[Nomad]

This wasnt a great movie but it was worth the rent. The soundtrack alone was worth the $. If you like reggae that is.

Nomad's rating:

Johnny Was (2006)

Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, hell bent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escape Brixton, they are trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house, sandwiched between a Rastafarian reggae pirate radio station upstairs and a West Indian 'Yardie' crack-dealing gangster, Julius, downstairs. As the charismatic Flynn finds common ground with the Yardies, Johnny fights to realize a peace process of his own, but makes the mistake of falling for Julius's girlfriend Rita, causing all-out war. A thriller in the vein of Lock Stock and The Long Good Friday, in which questions of race, morality, identity and loyalty play out against a great sound-track of reggae, rock, new wave and soul. Written by Anon

Trying to escape a violent past in Ireland, Johnny Doyle hides out in Brixton, London's toughest West Indian neighborhood but when his sociopathic former comrade and mentor Flynn escapes from Brixton prison determined to derail the Irish peace process, Johnny faces not only being dragged back into violence and away from his new love, but also igniting a simmering feud with his 'Yardie' (West Indian drug gang) neighbor. Questions of race, morality and loyalty play out against a great sound-track of reggae, rock and soul. Written by Liam McDowell

[Patsy Warnick]

Many times I enjoy the sound track more than the movie.

I haven't heard of this one. Well sounds like you enjoyed it. - cool

My husbands absolute gavorite movie is Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.

We have to watch everytime its on - I do like it - my husband knows every word of what Redford will say and Paul Neuman etc.. - funny

Patsy

[Fibonacci]

Sounds like my kinda movie! I'll have to check it out.



Thanks Nomad.