Alongside Get Carter and Performance, one of the greatest hard edged 70s British gangster films. Despite being hugely influential on more trite post Lock Stock fair, this is a hugely complicated screenplay, with massive, almost Shakespearean themes as a never better Bob Hoskings, goes through a proto-Uncut Gems nightmare. With deals he cant hang onto anymore than what he already has. Visions of a fading and rising Thatcherite UK merge into a fever dream - with a stunning soundtrack - as Hoskins and a superb Helen Mirren, realise too late, the Barbarians at the gate are more than they can handle.