City Rats

2009

1 hr. 34 min.

Comedy

Drama

Romance

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Lost souls try to find a connection as they wander through their dreary lives.

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sonny p

A vile and pointless viewing that sets Dyer's career back decade… so makes decidedly little difference.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/07/23

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Christ that was hard to get through. The final half hour there's almost no dialogue, just whimsical looks played to a piano soundtrack. Arguably it's the highlight of a terrible film. One of the worst British films I've ever seen. Pointless, dreary, dumb. Painful.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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laurie s

I can't believe the reviews from the spoiled overfed critics. They must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed and had a row with their spouses. It was intricately woven into something worthwhile to watch though and each character played their part well to a good story. Very nice movie.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

City rats 27.2.21 7.3/0. Not what I expected. Liked it but got a bit confused with characters looking the same. D.B.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Having bought this on DVD in hopes of a sort of action drama, it wasn't at all near that. The acting was alright, nothing to critic there. The overall movie was just depressing though and not my cup of tea.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Audience Member

Worst film I have ever seen

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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Steven M. Kelly

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Tamer Hassan

Jim

Ray Panthaki

Dean

Danny Dyer

Pete

Susan Lynch

Gina

Kenny Doughty

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David Jenkins

Time Out

It's a terrible film, so blithely wrong-headed in its execution that some scenes are quite entertaining in an 'is this really happening?' kind of way.

Rated: 1/6

Apr 25, 2009

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

There really is no film as terrible as a terrible Britfilm, and here is a depressing example that I can only compare to Madonna's legendarily abysmal Filth and Wisdom.

Rated: 1/5

Apr 25, 2009

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Dominic Wells

Times (UK)

City Rats is an old Trabant: depressing, prone to stall, its parts not properly welded together.

Rated: 2/5

Apr 25, 2009

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Edward Porter

Sunday Times (UK)

Although Kelly displays imagination as well as technical skill, his film can't be taken seriously.

Rated: 2/5

Apr 28, 2009

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Philip French

Observer (UK)

The factitious tale of eight Londoners from the lower reaches of the East End who pair off to go about their tedious, unconvincing ways with Canary Wharf usually in the background.

Apr 28, 2009

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Jon Fortgang

Film4

A low budget drama by a writer and director both making their feature debut, it's an uneven but ambitious enterprise which, like its characters, never knows which way to turn, or how best to exploit its own strengths.

Rated: 2.5/5

Apr 25, 2009

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Synopsis

Lost souls try to find a connection as they wander through their dreary lives.

Director: Steven M. Kelly
Screenwriter: Si Fantauzzo
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 17, 2016