Rise of the Footsoldier

Rise of the Footsoldier is a British crime film released on 7 September 2007. The third production from BAFTA Award-nominated director Julian Gilbey, it is based on the true story of the 1995 Rettendon murders and the autobiography of Carlton Leach,[2] a football hooligan of the infamous Inter City Firm (ICF) who became a powerful figure of the English underworld.[3][4]

Rise of the Footsoldier
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJulian Gilbey
Written byJulian Gilbey
Mike Hawk
StarringRicci Harnett
Craig Fairbrass
Roland Manookian
Terry Stone
Coralie Rose
Distributed byOptimum Releasing
Release date
  • 7 September 2007 (2007-09-07)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4 million
Box office£220,868[1]

Main cast
  • Ricci Harnett as Carlton Leach — Rise of the Footsoldier and Rise of the Footsoldier: Part II
  • Craig Fairbrass as Pat Tate — Rise of the Footsoldier and Rise of the Footsoldier 3
  • Roland Manookian as Craig Rolfe — Rise of the Footsoldier and Rise of the Footsoldier 3
  • Terry Stone as Tony Tucker — Rise of the Footsoldier and Rise of the Footsoldier 3
  • Billy Murray as Mickey Steele — Rise of the Footsoldier and Rise of the Footsoldier 3
  • Ian Virgo as Jimmy Gerenuk — Rise of the Footsoldier and Rise of the Footsoldier 3
  • Kierston Wareing/Laura McMonagle as Kate Carter — Rise of the Footsoldier and Rise of the Footsoldier 3
  • Frank Harper/Stephen Marcus as Jack Whomes — Rise of the Footsoldier and Rise of the Footsoldier 3

Rise of the Footsoldier

Rise of the Footsoldier Part II: Reign of the General

Rise of the Footsoldier 3: The Pat Tate Story

Evaluation in film guides

TimeOut Film Guide (2011 edition) reviewer David Jenkinson describes Rise of the Footsoldier as "a repugnant gangland romp in which ruffians get tooled up with axe handles, baseball bats and Stanley knives then knock ten bells out of each other for two hours." After a one-sentence overview, the review concludes that "Leach is then unceremoniously swept aside as the film hastily attempts to give the Rettendon Range Rover murders a once-over in the scrappy second half."

In America, Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever also disliked it, throwing the film one bone (out of possible four) and dismissing it as "Brit crime flick, based on a true story, that has nothing going for it but violence". Indicating that "Carlton Leach goes from football hooligan in the 1980s to criminal muscle and gangster in the 1990s", the write-up ends with mention of "three murdered drug dealers who were found in rural Essex".

Sequels

A sequel, Rise of the Footsoldier: Part 2 (2013), was released in December 2013.[5] A prequel titled Rise of the Footsoldier 3 was released in 2017. The fourth part is 2019's Rise Of The Footsoldier 4: Marbella.[6]

Year Title Release Platform Gross Sales
2007Rise of the FootsoldierCinema ReleaseN/A
2013Rise of the Footsoldier: Part 2Direct-to-DVDN/A
2017Rise of the Footsoldier 3Direct-to-DVDN/A
2019Rise Of The Footsoldier 4: MarbellaDirect-to-DVDN/A

References
  1. "Rise of the Footsoldier". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  2. Leach, Carlton (2003). Muscle. Blake Publishing. ISBN 978-1-904034-48-3
  3. Chambers, Catherine (2 September 2007). "Rise of the Footsoldier". BBC Online. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  4. Gritten, David (7 September 2007). "Rise of the Footsoldier". Telegraph Online. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  5. Rise of the Footsoldier: Part 2 IMDB Page, Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  6. Heritage, Stuart (1 November 2019). "Giving Footsoldiers a bad name: why film title changes are the biggest crime of all". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
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