6.3
The Seven-Ups
1973
“A better life is there for the taking.”
Gassed Up (2024)
February 9, 20241h 42mEN
5.3
6 votes
Overview
Set during the peak of a wave of moped crimes sweeping London, 20-year-old Ash, who is trying to earn money to raise his 14-year-old sister and send his mother to rehab, gets caught up with an organized crime ring led by a young and charismatic Albanian immigrant. As the crimes get bigger and the attention becomes addictive, Ash struggles to keep his head above water. Soon, he has to choose between the people he loves, and having his whole life come crashing down around him.
Director
George AmponsahWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
Albanian
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N/A
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Production Companies
Ascendant Fox
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User Reviews
CinemaSerf
6.0"Ash" (Stephen Odubola) lives at home with his young sister and his permanently absent or stoned mother. His dream is to start a business of his own (he likes to fix things) and to get her into rehab. To that end he's mixed up with four of his mates in a snatch 'n grab scheme using mopeds to pinch mobile phones and handbags from unsuspecting folks on the street. They sell these on to "Shaz" (Jelena Gavrilovic) who happens to be the cousin of the gang's leader "Dubz" (Taz Skylar). "Ash" finds the shoebox under his bed is gradually filling up, but when he's told his mother's medical costs are li…
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r96sk
7.0Most certainly not perfect, I'm not convinced by it I won't lie, but... <em>'Gassed Up'</em> narrowly does enough. Making your lead characters criminals is always a brave choice, you're almost setting yourself up for failure from a film point of view. I'm personally cool with a movie's main lot not being total good guys, like <em>'The Fast and the Furious'</em> is literally one of my favourite flicks ever, but it does make it more difficult to root for the people onscreen. In this execution of making the audience do the aforementioned, I think this film doesn't do the best job. I appreci…
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