Rating: R
Genre:
Action
Release Date: 12/02/2008
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 119 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Lionsgate
Julian Gilbey's fact-based
crime saga
Rise of the Footsoldier traces one man's meteoric ascension from a lucrative soccer career, through the ranks of organized crime, to the status of Britain's most omnipotent drug lord. The tale begins in the 1970s, when hooligan
Carlton Leach (
Ricci Harnett) finds himself implicated in a series of violent skirmishes on the soccer fields of England. Prompted to leave this activity and enter another trade,
Leach self-incorporates as a company called ICF - a front for the young entrepreneur's drug-dealing activities. Soon,
Carlton's business flourishes - first with cocaine, then with ecstasy and heroin (as time rolls forward from the self-serving 80s into the 1990s), but with it comes severe addiction and, disturbingly, wave after wave of nerve-wracking violence. More hardened, more severe criminals turn up to do business with
Carlton's associates, forcing
Carlton to recruit tougher and more psychopathic elements to protect himself - particularly when the goods from a heroin shipment disappear and Turkish thugs begin closing in.
~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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