All in all a good, watchable film with good all round performances but the stand-out performer here is definitely Tamer Hassan as Charlie, the drug-kingpin of Marbella. The Business echoes films like Sexy Beast and the part where Charlie and his goons are shooting at each other (they are wearing bullet-proof vests!!) is very much like the rabbit shoot in Sexy Beast. It is very obvious that The Business was intended to be a British Goodfellas and that is the only failing of the film. It is definitely not the comedy crime flicks that Lock, Stock and Snatch were but that is because The Business is a serious look at the British cocaine epidemic of the excessive eighties and a fictional look at the type of people behind it. Tamer Hassan along with Manish Patel (Triads, Yardies..) is fast becoming a rising star in the British acting scene.
Review of The Business
