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- Although packed with story and some fun characters, even at 90 minutes the film feels too long. While the performances are excellent, perhaps what keeps "Going Off, Big Time" from completely satisfying is its 'gangsterness'.
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Sep 21, 2000 · Going Off, Big Time (2000) Jim Doyle's film opens engagingly enough. Following a gangland shooting, gangster Mark Clayton hides out in the home of his solicitor and reminisces on his life as a ...
8/10. Excellent British crime film. Robin Kelly 28 November 2000. Having endured the horrors of the recent spate of cockney crime capers I had equally low expectations of this scouse crime caper but it proved to be one of the best British films of the year.
Sep 22, 2000 · Going Off Big Time: Directed by Jim Doyle. With Neil Fitzmaurice, Dominic Carter, Nicholas Lamont, Nicholas Moss. After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world.
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Jan 1, 2000 · Going Off, Big Time Review. After nastiness in a Liverpool pub, fresh-faced Fitzmaurice (who also scripted) narrates flashbacks that explain how an accidental jail spell turned him into a...
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Kaleem Aftab The List. The film places a lot of emphasis on the comic element of the lives of these wanna gangsters. This is very amusing in parts and...
Scouse bloke Mark Clayton (Fitzmaurice) has kept out of trouble all his life, until he accidentally hits a cop and get four years in jail. Helped by old timer Hill, he learns survival skills ...
Apart from the change of location from London to Liverpool, this is just the same old, low budget, gangster cliche. 26 September 2000 1:19PM. Recommend?
