WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY is another low budget British gangster thriller, a bit better than most thanks to some smart casting. As leads we get old timers including Chris Ellison, James Cosmo and Ian Ogilvy, making this a gangster version of THE EXPENDABLES mixed with a dark HARRY BROWN-style revenge plot if you will. The film suffers from a poor script that favours the usual kind of expletive-filled nonsense over much in the way of the wit, although there are some funny lines here and there. Way too much screen time is given over to some truly loathsome characters, more than they deserve, which makes some of this hard to sit through, and Dani Dyer has no discernable talent. But given the constraints of the budget this could be a lot worse; two sequels have followed.

This is a London based vigilante film that features almost cartoonish street hoodlums who the director goes out of his way to make utterly despicable such as casual raping and at one point threatening to throw a pram and baby over a building.

An old man Charlie (Steven Berkoff) is kicked to death by a gang called E2 as he tries to help a young woman from being raped. However Charlie was a respected and also a feared former gangster. To get revenge his brother Richie (Ian Ogilvy) returns from Spain and gets together with his old lags to gain revenge.

The hard guy pensioners go old school as they catch several members of E2 and torture them as they try to find out the whereabouts of their gang leader. The police in the mean time act like dummies not even able to find out that the gang put Charlie's beating on YouTube.

It is nice to see former Saint, Ogilvy returning to headline a film and trading his posh accent for a gruff cockney one. He still looks smooth for his age which is more than I can say for the female co- stars Alison Doody and Lysette Anthony who are unrecognisable from their bygone years.

At least the hard assed veterans seem to be having fun getting back to torturing their victims like the old day although I did it find it hard to believe that the youthful scum did not start squealing after one punch.

The film is derivative, enjoyable and plain daft in equal measures. The shoot out at the hospital was almost bizarre.

The E-2 gang on the East side are a bunch of Hooligans who killed the wrong man (Steven Berkoff) in an alley. It seems he was part of an old gang from that neighborhood that has since retired. Upon hearing of his brother's murder, Richie (Ian Ogilvy) returns to the old neighborhood, revives what is left of his group as they enact revenge.

It seems there is a demand for old guys getting physical even when Stallone, Arnie, or De Niro aren't involved. I like this film. The acting was good, although Aaron (Danny-Boy Hatchard) looked far too stereo-typical with his hoodie and stretching his arms out like a rapper every time he speaks. There is a nicely added twist at about 50 minutes into the film which didn't add as much to the film as it could, but nonetheless made it more interesting.

The ending climax was a bit anti-climatic as I was hoping for something a little different. Better than the "Harry Morgan" vigilante film. Good crime drama.

Guide: F-bomb. Attempted gang rap. No sex or nudity.