Philip French 

Shank

A study of gang warfare in a future south London lacks social insight, writes Philip French
  
  


This hysterical look at racial gang warfare in south London five years hence is competently made in a music-video way, relentlessly violent and wholly lacking in social insight. A sentimental ending that nods in the direction of West Side Story's "There's a place somewhere" possibly explains the surprising decision of the managing director of the Damilola Taylor Trust to give it his imprimatur.

 

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