Pimp
PIMP (18)
D: Robert Cavanah
Revolver/Stealth Media (Robert Cavanah, Paul de Vos, Crispin
Manson, Matthew Stardling & Royd Tolkien)
UK 2010
91 mins
Crime
W: Robert Cavanah
DP: Steve Annis
Ed: Rob Redford
Mus: Tom Hodge
Robert Cavanah (Woody), Billy Boyd (The Chief), Martin
Compston (Zeb), Scarlett Alice Johnson (Lizzy), Barbara Nedeljáková (Petra), Robert Fucilla (Vincent), Danny Dyer (Stanley)
This low-budget British crime film uses a mock documentary
style to uncover the seedy side of prostitution in Britain's capital in a way that Belgium focused on criminal gangs and murders in Man Bites Dog (qv). The difference is that was good and Pimp is
awful, especially with its casting of Danny Dyer as a godfather-like kingpin.
In fairness, it's an easy film to ignore, bombing at the box
office, pulling in an embarrassing £205 & pulled from cinema screens after just one showing.
It's only really worth watching so you can poke fun at Dyer's
laughably pathetic performance.
1/10
