Rise of the Footsoldier: Retribution review – never-ending hardman-on-a-mission franchise heads to Ibiza

The seventh in the series takes longstanding lead gangster Tate, played to the hilt as always by Craig Fairbrass, to the White Isle to knock some heads together The seventh instalment in this seemingly never-ending series opens with a line of voiceover from star Craig Fairbrass, summarising forthcoming proceedings nicely: “They killed my best friend, now they all have to die.” The real-life hardman Pat Tate might have been murdered in his 30s in Essex in 1995 , but that hasn’t proved a setback for his invincible fictionalised counterpart, played to the hilt throughout the entire franchise with

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