Stars: Sadie Frost, Ray Winstone, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee, Kathy Burke, Denise Van Outen, Rhys Ifans

Director: Dominic Anciano

Summary: Jonny has dreams of leaving his job as a courier by getting in with the toughest gang in North London...

Jude (Jude Law) and Johnny (Jonny Lee Miller) are best friends on the mean streets of North London. Johnny is working as a courier, and he knows that it's going nowhere, so Jude hooks him up with the toughest gang in town, thanks to his crime boss Uncle Ray. New guy Johnny is so eager for action that he instigates a feud with a South London gang, which soon turns deadly and reminds him that the streets are not a playground. After a murder at Uncle Ray's wedding, he and his South London rival decide to stop Johnny, whatever it takes.

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It must have seemed like fun at the time: a group of mates got together to play gangsters, ran around London's streets waving guns, dishing out beatings and shouting profanities at the top of their mockney lungs. It's the kind of game that any group of lads with a camcorder and a six-pack might indulge in on a Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, these particular mates happen to be famous, so the result--Love, Honour and Obey--actually saw the dark of cinemas.

Ray Winstone is Ray, head honcho of a North London crime outfit; Sean Pertwee is Sean, leader of the South London pack. Their organisations co-exist with a minimum of fuss, based on respect for each other's turf. Then Ray's nephew, Jude (Jude Law), introduces his mate, Jonny (Jonny Lee Miller), into the firm and the equilibrium goes up in gun smoke. Jonny's a hothead who disrespects Ray's rules and instigates a private feud with Matthew (Rhys Ifans), his opposite number in Sean's gang, and soon there are gun battles raging through the capital.

Perhaps directors Dominic Anciano and Ray Burdis regard their work as avant-garde, a deconstruction of the movie-making myth or a dissection of genre--or maybe they are just having a laugh at our expense. Either way the result is tortuous, egotistical film making. To be fair, Love, Honour and Obeyis at least a step up from their last effort, Final Cut, in which much the same cast again paraded under their own names and made utter fools of themselves, but that's like saying the Zeebrugge ferry disaster wasn't as bad as the Titanic. Still, at least it's not all boys playing with their penis extensions: there's also Sadie Frost and Denise Van Outen. --Jamie Graham

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive menu
Year:	1999
Release Date:	May 5, 2008
Runtime:	94 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	9020482
Keywords:	Love, Comedy, Honour, General, Obey
Genre:	Comedy