Kidulthood (2006)

Noel Clarke writes and stars in Kidulthood. After the suicide of a young schoolgirl bullied at school and harassed by Sam (Clarke.) The students are given time off school the next day to mourn.We follow the youths as they criss cross each other throughout the day. There is casual bullying, drug taking, stealing and sex.Sam is riled when a group of lads break into his house and goes out looking for revenge. However one of the lad's has an uncle who is a vicious gangster, a plot strand that will develop later in the trilogy.Kidulthood is a low budget gritty look at inner city London but it is also a look at life of young people that is becoming cliched as red London buses and city types wearing bowler hats.Clarke's writing is raw but it does have an energy to it. However some of the characters look too old to be at school and too many of them are just nasty all the time, so you really do not care about them.

Kidulthood is another film that makes people want to see it, by advertising a star that's in it for all of five minutes, Nick Hoult of Skins, About A Boy, and X-Men fame. He's the reason I gave this film a chance, because honestly, the plot isn't really something that interests me. This film is so far out there and so strange, that I can't even tell you what it's about! A bullied girl in a London high school kills herself and the kids get time off from school. After that the story splinters into a million different pieces of kids running wild in the streets of London and most of it makes absolutely no sense. Kidulthood tries to become the British version of Boyz In The Hood, but completely fails. The British gangstas, aren't exactly gangsta, and things move so unbelievably fast that it's impossible to keep track of who is who and who is doing what. To sum it all up, there's no real plot, meaning there isn't much of a point to this movie. There are also far too many characters, many of whom look a like, and very few that can actually act worth a damn. Kidulthood is one big blur of violence and F-bombs without a theme, a plot, or a point. This is just another example of a movie that tries to attract people with foul language, unnecessary violence, and a marquis name that barely makes a cameo. It's a complete waste of two hours!

I -Like- this movie, why the low low low ratings, some people say its unrealistic But.... its real to me, iv gotta say this to those people who say its unrealistic, when I was 15 years old we robbed shops, people getting stabbed and stuff.... But in a place like this its easy to get up to no good "aha Just Saying" people try not to judge because stuff like this happens all the time, if you cant enjoy or relate to this, then, you missed out on your childhood and id say 70% of this was meant to be funny with a mix of innocence, life lessons, gritty, underground, grime life styles this is worth watching listen learn and try get to grips with the "Super Super Story" 3+1=5

I was lucky to catch this on BBC Three a couple of weeks ago... it was worth it! The writing can go from funny and menace and then to sorrow and sadness. It packs-a-punch. The three best performances of the film are from Aml Ameen (Trife), Jaime Winstone (Becky) and the writer himself, Noel Clarke (Sam). Ameen's character goes through a range of different emotions throughout the whole film, and Ameen does well to capture this. Winstone is brilliant as a girl who does not know how to respect her body and Clarke gives a menacing performance as the school bully. The rest of the cast led by newcomers Adam Deacon, Femi Oyeniran, Cornell John and Red Madrell, but also contains some famous faces (Rafe Spall, Nicholas Hoult, ex-CBBC presenter and presenter of The Gadget Show, Ortis Deley and John Simm's wife, Kate McGowan) is a brilliant cast that is full of different actors from different backgrounds, which is what makes Kidulthood stand out... because it has diversity! Kidulthood is a harrowing look at the lives of young children in the UK and what they go through. You will not regret this.