''The Antwerp Dolls'' is a 2015 British action/crime/ thriller film written and directed by Jake Reid and starring Jason Wing,

Bruce Payne Bruce Martyn Payne (born 22 November 1958) is an English actor, producer, screenwriter, film director and theatre director. Payne is best known for portraying villains, such as Charles Rane in '' Passenger 57'', Jacob Kell in '' Highlander: En ...

and Sean Cronin.

Premise

A ruthless businessman's payoff to the Belgian mafia is intercepted by his revenge-seeking former protegees, launching a deadly war of violence and double-dealing.

Cast

*Jason Wing as Cally *

as Ray Ferrino * Sean Cronin as Max Ferrino * Sebastien Foucan as Marco *Courtney Winston as Blacks *Jermaine Curtis Liburd as Spacey *Simon Pengelly as Steve *Ashley R Woods as Corey *Terence Anderson as Mike *Danny Cutler as Sonny *Katya Greer as Jane *Nick Orchard as George *Manveer Sohal as Amir *Sean Earl McPherson as Manny *Kate Marie Davies as Christy *Tobias Jon as Floyd

Reception

The film has had screenings at a number of film festivals internationally, including the Annual Garden State Film Festival and won best feature film at the inaugural Poinciana Film Festival. Martin Stocks stated that 'despite some inevitable technical limitations due to the limited budget, The Antwerp Dolls looked impressive and left me wanting to re-watch it'. Stocks also stated that

and Sean Cronin were 'excellent' as the Ferrino brothers, 'with Payne quietly sinister and Cronin a more brooding presence'. Mondo Squallido stated that 'there may be a bit too much going on in this film, but I enjoyed it'. In Tony Black's view 'there's only one, slight reason to watch ''The Antwerp Dolls'' and it can be described in two words:

. Black stated that 'Payne is one of those B-movie actors with such slimy, educated delivery you can't help but enjoy him chewing the scenery, even when he's given the kind of painful direlogue Reid affords him in his amateurish script; one specific court-holding monologue about monkeys and dolphins is hilarious because it's trying to be so poignant'. Black lamented that 'Payne barely appears and instead we lurch from one set of tedious, morose, cartoonish Cockney villains to the next, all mostly shouting and growling angrily as they clomp their way through a narrative that wishes it was Scorsese-clever, but feels like

Vinnie Jones Vincent Peter Jones (born 5 January 1965) is a British actor, presenter, and former professional footballer. Jones played professionally as a defensive midfielder from 1984 to 1999, notably for Wimbledon, Leeds United, Sheffield United, Chels ...

with a hangover'.

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* * 2015 films 2015 crime thriller films 2015 action thriller films British action thriller films British crime thriller films Films shot in England 2010s English-language films 2010s British films {{action-thriller-film-stub