A disappointing conclusion to Noel Clarke's fine trilogy which started with KIDULTHOOD so long ago. The first two films were very good indeed, gritty, on-the-street thrillers, whereas this one's all over the place. It has a light-hearted feel to it and some performances which feel more at home in one of those indie gangster flicks than a real movie. Once again the vendetta between Sam and Curtis propels the plotline, but there are too many extraneous characters, many of whom have no real reason to exist (such as the Stormzy character). The dialogue veers towards the crude one too many times and generally you feel that there's not much intelligence on offer here. Clarke does try hard and things do pick up for an impressive climax, but until this point you can't help but feel that they're just treading water and going through the motions.
Review of Brotherhood
