Life couldn't be better for entrepreneur and Mod, Danny.
That is until he's introduced to Mad Mike, an unhinged underworld mobster who is determined to coerce Danny into pulling off an illegal drugs runoff him.....
To be someone is one of those wannabe gangster films that were rife in the late nineties and early naughtiest, thanks to one Guy Ritchie.
We get the smug voiceover, we get the silly introductions to all the major characters in the film, either by explanation featuring a flashback, or for some unknown reason, by a song from the character in question.
This is supposed to be zingy and fresh, a lads adventure for the lads, with a couple of people who were in the original Quadrophenia, to get fans of that film yearning to see this. The problem is, it ain't Quadrophenia.
After the boring introductions that try and make perverts and prostitutes look cool, we get into the meat of the film, with a villain who 'SHOUTS REALLY LOUD' to be terrifying, needs our main character to pick up some pills that were hidden in the Isle Of White,
Luckily for our gang, some silly Mod festival is happening, so they won't draw too much attention.
Add bent coppers, hardiest, and a haunted tomb, you get a very strange film that just seems like it's trying too hard to be something that it cannot be, a film that can stand along side Lock, Stock..... and be fresh and add something new to this, very worn out, sub-genre.
On the plus side, some of the music is pretty good, and the haunted tomb scene did raise a few smiles, but don't be deceived by the DVD cover and quotes, it's a pretty bland affair.....
That is until he's introduced to Mad Mike, an unhinged underworld mobster who is determined to coerce Danny into pulling off an illegal drugs runoff him.....
To be someone is one of those wannabe gangster films that were rife in the late nineties and early naughtiest, thanks to one Guy Ritchie.
We get the smug voiceover, we get the silly introductions to all the major characters in the film, either by explanation featuring a flashback, or for some unknown reason, by a song from the character in question.
This is supposed to be zingy and fresh, a lads adventure for the lads, with a couple of people who were in the original Quadrophenia, to get fans of that film yearning to see this. The problem is, it ain't Quadrophenia.
After the boring introductions that try and make perverts and prostitutes look cool, we get into the meat of the film, with a villain who 'SHOUTS REALLY LOUD' to be terrifying, needs our main character to pick up some pills that were hidden in the Isle Of White,
Luckily for our gang, some silly Mod festival is happening, so they won't draw too much attention.
Add bent coppers, hardiest, and a haunted tomb, you get a very strange film that just seems like it's trying too hard to be something that it cannot be, a film that can stand along side Lock, Stock..... and be fresh and add something new to this, very worn out, sub-genre.
On the plus side, some of the music is pretty good, and the haunted tomb scene did raise a few smiles, but don't be deceived by the DVD cover and quotes, it's a pretty bland affair.....