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Set in '70s Kingston and '80s Hackney, Yardie centres on the life of a young Jamaican man named D (Aml Ameen), who has never fully recovered from the murder, committed during his childhood, of his older brother Jerry Dread (Everaldo Creary). D grows up under the wing of a Kingston Don and music producer named King Fox (Sheldon Shepherd). Fox dispatches him to London, where he reconnects with his childhood sweetheart, Yvonne (Shantol Jackson), and his daughter who he's not seen since she was a baby. He also hooks up with a soundclash crew, called High Noon. But before he can be convinced to abandon his life of crime and follow 'the righteous path', he encounters the man who shot his brother 10 years earlier, and embarks on a bloody, explosive quest for retribution - a quest which brings him into conflict with vicious London gangster Rico (Stephen Graham).

Genre:

Crime

Actors:

Antwayne Eccleston, Fraser James, Aml Ameen, Rayon McLean, Mark Rhino Smith, Sheldon Shepherd, Christopher Daly, Reshawna Douglas, Alexandra Vaz, Chris-Ann Fletcher, Paul Haughton, ...»

Director:

Idris Elba

Country:

United Kingdom

Release:

2018

IMDb:

5.8

Quality:

Duration:

101 min

Hollywood Reporter

It's a pedestrian effort that could have used a serious hit of Elba's dangerous charisma onscreen.

January 24, 2018

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Sunday Independent (Ireland)

You'd never accuse Yardie...of being a particularly original yarn, but its attention to style, music and language...lends it enough verve to stand on its own.

September 04, 2018

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Irish Times

This is a film about the pressures and demands of making another country your own. Too often, however, the viewer will feel as befuddled as the protagonist.

September 10, 2018

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Variety

"Yardie" has the right look, the right sound and the right moves to play with the bigger boys of its genre; like its young, scrappy but naive hero, however, there's not quite enough power behind its posturing.

January 26, 2018

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The Mail on Sunday (UK)

Would be funny if it wasn't quite so frightening.

September 04, 2018

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The Ooh Tray

Not much to write home about, which is a pity for a film about emigres.

September 30, 2018

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London Evening Standard

If [Elba's] first film often looks good and always sounds great, beneath its skin it is short of heart and soul.

September 05, 2018

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RogerEbert.com

Throughout the messy experience of "Yardie," [Idris] Elba's interest in storytelling gets ahead of his lacking visual instincts. Though I'm curious to see what story he tells next, Elba proves to not yet have an original voice behind the camera.

January 22, 2018

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Screen Zealots

This messy, disjointed film marks the directorial debut of Idris Elba and it gives me little pleasure to state that he should stick to working in front of the camera instead of behind it.

December 21, 2018

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Observer (UK)

The performances aren't bad (Ameen's charisma eclipses the expositional dialogue), but the stakes feel low and the characters gangster-movie generic.

September 02, 2018

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Kermode & Mayo's Film Review

Obviously Idris Elba is very well-versed in the music and the style and the cultures that this story is dealing with and he evokes them in such a way that you feel that you are really there.

September 06, 2018

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indieWire

As it stands, Yardie seldom amounts to anything more than a collection of vaguely related scenes, simultaneously both too muddled and too straightforward to have any resonance beyond the moment at hand.

January 29, 2018

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