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Brendan Foley (writer)
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Stop running. Face the future.
Plot:
Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison... more | full synopsis
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Cast

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Vinnie Jones ... Johnny Doyle
Patrick Bergin ... Flynn

Eriq La Salle ... Julius

Samantha Mumba ... Rita
Lennox Lewis ... Ras

Roger Daltrey ... Jimmy

Laurence Kinlan ... Michael
Wilson Jermaine Heredia ... Sparra
Mark Asante ... Nathan

Sam Sarpong ... Skipp

Charles Porter ... Diggs
John Fashanu ... DJ Fash
Colin Stewart ... Druggie
Emma Little ... Cafe Waitress (as Emma Lyttle)
Gerard Carlin ... Dead Junkie
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Rated R for violence, pervasive language, drug use and brief nudity.
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USA:93 min
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Lennox Lewis spent his honeymoon in Belfast filming the movie less than a week after the wedding in Jamaica. more
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Anachronisms: In the shootout scene with the police in chapter 10, the white police Vauxhall Vectra has the registration number ATM 874L, this is a 1972 registration and the car is clearly post 2000. more
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References The Godfather (1972) more

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cleaning house, 24 September 2006
9/10
Author: wrlang from United States

Johnny Was is a great Irish movie about criminals doing the right thing. Jones plays an ex-IRA operative trying to lay low after a bombing gone wrong until he can make a new life. Two of his old buddies (Bergin, Daltrey, Kinlin) who escape from prison and track him down to get revenge. They meet up with La Salle who is a drug dealer and Lewis the Rasta radio jock with a huge local following and Mumba who plays the drug dealers girl. They make try and scam each other until it all catches up with them in a very well thought out climax that left me with a smirk on my face. Not particularly fast paced, but the end is worth the wait.

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