Kidulthood is a movie that isn't going to be everybody's type of film. The movie does focus on teenager's becoming adults and what the movie does so well is showing what's really happening with teenager's in Britain. Some teenager's do join gangs and do horrible things, it's the ugly fact of life.

The movie has a solid cast and the acting is pretty damn good. The directing is pretty good as well. My only problem with the movie is it's ending and it's character's. But overall, Kidulhood to me is a solid drama and this movie isn't for everyone as I said before.

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24 hours in the lives of a group of British teens, Kidhulthood errs on the side of edginess, lacking in any real authenticity to accompany its high drama. It has all been done before, and more successfully, with the only real standout being a quality UK rap soundtrack. The very definition of inessential viewing.

That’s not the West End I remember...

Honestly, I don't understand why people act like this.

A shaggy but heartfelt drama about growing up in modern west London, doing a British Boyz n the Hood meets Dazed & Confused, on the day after a young victim of bullying kills herself. Red Madrell deserves to be a bigger star than she is on the strength of this one- she's the most valuable player here, but Noel Clarke glowers against type as Sam in a way that would be more fully explored in the sequels than Alisa.

Having watched the whole trilogy this week, I think this is also the only one that has to be truly ambitious with its budget- I have no idea how they managed to get some of those shots on Oxford Street at December. Aside from the logistics, it patents a whole style and sets a tone for the films that followed, whether direct sequels or pale imitators in the same new genre.

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The 13 year olds at school who thought this was the best movie ever all had kids by the age of 16. Which says more than I ever could.

Larry Clark's 'Kids' meets 'La Haine' (Dir. by Mathieu Kassovitz), only British and not quite as good.

Ah England, proud home to druggie 15 year olds, bullies driving girls to suicide, expectant mothers snorting coke and dirty pedos who give teen girls drugs for sex. PROUD TO BE BRITISH 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

This film is such a product of its time. Inspiring a whole wave of British ‘hood’ films. Growing up in North London, my older sister and cousins were at the right age and the right time for this film. I kinda saw it then but I didn’t remember it much up until now, being more familiar with what came afterwards. 

This film definitely takes almost wholesale from La Haine. Problem is, the style is so much more bland. The script and performances are a bit pants as well. What I will say though, is having Dizzee Rascal and The Streets and other early grime classics leads to an S tier soundtrack

I like the hood trilogy and although I think this is probably the weakest in the series and has some rather big flaws its still an enjoyably surprisingly real look at the youth of London. First, the bad, the acting really isn’t too great, the line delivery often feels stilted and can sometimes distract. But other then this, the editing is what shines, its very energetic and exciting which can help keep you involved. The story and characters are quite brutal which I think adds to this realist element and overall although a lot is quite meandering it all helps to develop everything.

chekhov’s drilled gun

For a film with a budget of £600,000.

To me they did the best they could.

Stylishly and excitingly directed by Menhaj Huda, and I think pretty well written by Noel Clarke, especially towards the end of the film, I think the whole climax of the film is great. There are a lot of themes dealt with very realistically and unflinchingly, but I think with a lot of them it doesn't explore them enough, quite a lot of it is surface level. There are a lot of strong performances in the film, especially Aml Ameen, Red Madrell and a great early performance from Rafe Spall, but there are also a few slightly dodgy performances too.

Like a wired mashup off skins, some CBBC pseudo-adult drama and a 00s grime video.

Still kind of liked it for some reason

loved it but the ending was so cliche let the boy ready to improve his life live for once !!! also why did noel clark have a fucking baseball bat like he isnt a teen in london like thats not suspicious

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