The thousand faces of Craig Fairbrass

[rubbershoes]

There are three Craig Fairbrass films on netflix. I've watched them so you don't have to.

Rise of the Footsoldier 3
Fairbrass plays a hardman in this prequel to Rise of the Footsoldier, about the 1995 Essex Range Rover shootings. Poorly scripted and plotted , I'll give it 2/10

Avengement
Fairbrass plays a hardman whose brother has escaped from custody and wants a word. This one is extraordinarily violent but at least tries to explain what's going on. 4/10

Villain
Fairbrass plays a hardman just out of prison trying to save the family pub. There's a bit more to this. 6/10

 

[8ball]

He's too sexy for your film reviews.

edit: ah, the pic does clarify things somewhat

 

[danny la rouge]

He’s deeply dippy.

 

[Elpenor]

You can rely on a footsoldier film to have at least one scene with Fairbrass romping with a blonde glamour model with some guns and 5kg of coke close at hand.

 

[Numbers]

Villain is quite good.

 

[rubbershoes]

Villain is quite good.

Have you seen Wild Bill? Really good , even though there's no Fairbrass in it

 

[keybored]

Have you seen Wild Bill? Really good , even though there's no Fairbrass in it

Wild Bill is superb. On topic though Avengement does have Fairbrass in it and while not as good as Wild Bill imo, it's still much better than most things with Fairbrass in them.

ETA: Oh my bad, you already mentioned it in the OP

 

[AverageJoe]

This might well turn out to be my favourite thread ever

 

[Sue]

Well i've just looked up his filmography and I have not seen any of his films (he was an uncredited extra in Scum but .)

 

[AverageJoe]

47 films and 23 tv shows and 10 computer game voice overs

And we never hear about him in the press really.

He's the James Milner of media.

What a G.

 

[danny la rouge]

Well i've just looked up his filmography and I have not seen any of his films (he was an uncredited extra in Scum but .)

No, be never heard of him either, and his face means nothing to me. I have no plans to change that.

 

[AverageJoe]

No, be never heard of him either, and his face means nothing to me. I have no plans to change that.

He's like, smaller than Ray Winstone but bigger than Danny Dyer in terms of roles.

 

[Sue]

He's like, smaller than Ray Winstone but bigger than Danny Dyer in terms of roles.

And yet I've seen various Danny Dyer films, God help me.

(More than one but they all had the same plot. )

 

[Dystopiary]

I only know him from Eastenders.

 

[AverageJoe]

"Hi, I'm Craig Fairbrass and might know me from these films and TV programmes"

Scum
Cliffhanger (main baddie vs Sylvester Stallone)
Rise of the Footsoldier plus sequels 2-5)

Or maybe on tv in

Tuckers Luck (showing our age now)
Emmerdale
No Place Like Home
Three Up, Two Down
London Burning
Prime Suspect
The Bill
Eastenders (137 episodes!)

Or maybe as the voice of six Call Of Duty games.

One of those guys you could walk past in the street but when you see him on TV you'll go "ooh, what's he been in before?".

 

[danny la rouge]

"Hi, I'm Craig Fairbrass and might know me from these films and TV programmes"

Scum
Cliffhanger (main baddie vs Sylvester Stallone)
Rise of the Footsoldier plus sequels 2-5)

Or maybe on tv in

Tuckers Luck (showing our age now)
Emmerdale
No Place Like Home
Three Up, Two Down
London Burning
Prime Suspect
The Bill
Eastenders (137 episodes!)

Or maybe as the voice of six Call Of Duty films.

One of those guys you could walk past in the street but when you see him on TV you'll go "ooh, what's he been in before?".

That’s a list of programmes I don’t watch, and films I haven’t seen, so nope.

 

[AverageJoe]

That’s a list of programmes I don’t watch, so nope.

Exciting times Danny. EXCITING TIMES!!!!

 

[danny la rouge]

Exciting times Danny. EXCITING TIMES!!!!

I remember Tucker’s Luck being on telly though. I can’t remember a thing about it, or whether I watched it.

Is this guy really related to Right Said Fred?

 

[xenon]

I am tempted to watch avengement later. Which I know really is a mistake. But the name, the title is just so compellingly stupid.

 

[WouldBe]

Cliffhanger (main baddie vs Sylvester Stallone)

That's where I recognise him from.

 

[porp]

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There are three Craig Fairbrass films on netflix. I've watched them so you don't have to.

Rise of the Footsoldier 3
Fairbrass plays a hardman in this prequel to Rise of the Footsoldier, about the 1995 Essex Range Rover shootings. Poorly scripted and plotted , I'll give it 2/10

Avengement
Fairbrass plays a hardman whose brother has escaped from custody and wants a word. This one is extraordinarily violent but at least tries to explain what's going on. 4/10

Villain
Fairbrass plays a hardman just out of prison trying to save the family pub. There's a bit more to this. 6/10

That range rover shooting seems to be
the closest we get to ye olde mythmaking in real time that I've noticed. I would say that its an event that gets retold in popular culture, but it's not really popular culture. It's marginally popular culture as represented in too many remaindered geezer memoirs in discount bookshops and lottery and tax scam financed 00s films that graduate from LondonLive to Netflix.

 

[Sweet FA]

Muscle is good.

Muscle

Cavan Clerkin and Craig Fairbrass star in Gerard Johnson's bodybuilding drama. Read the Empire review.

www.empireonline.com

 

[Humberto]

I could have him.

 

[rubbershoes]

Well i've just looked up his filmography and I have not seen any of his films (he was an uncredited extra in Scum but .)

Apparently he was often a studio dancer on Top of the Pops. I doubt if wore the same scowl then as much as he does onn screen now

 

[JimW]

Avengement isn't even a fucking word

 

[krtek a houby]

Avengement isn't even a fucking word

You tell that to Craig, mate

 

[Orang Utan]

Muscle is good.

Muscle

Cavan Clerkin and Craig Fairbrass star in Gerard Johnson's bodybuilding drama. Read the Empire review.

www.empireonline.com

I’ve had a copy of this for ages. Does sound like a cut above the usual material - made by The The’s Matt Johnson’s bro iirc

 

[DaveCinzano]

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There are three Craig Fairbrass films on netflix. I've watched them so you don't have to.

Rise of the Footsoldier 3
Fairbrass plays a hardman in this prequel to Rise of the Footsoldier, about the 1995 Essex Range Rover shootings. Poorly scripted and plotted , I'll give it 2/10

Avengement
Fairbrass plays a hardman whose brother has escaped from custody and wants a word. This one is extraordinarily violent but at least tries to explain what's going on. 4/10

Villain
Fairbrass plays a hardman just out of prison trying to save the family pub. There's a bit more to this. 6/10

Avengement is a Jesse V Johnson action movie vehicle for Scott Adkins. Fairbrass' part isn't the lead. It's not great, but it is accomplished and functions as intended. It has slightly higher aspirations than many of its ilk. It's a solid 6.

Villain, as I have not yet tired of saying, is a good movie. It tells a story, its characters do things they would in the story, and it is well made. It's not 'just' a genre geezer movie - it's about a man who strives but fails to overcome his limitations. A 7 or an 8.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Also there is much to commend in the filmography of Danny Dyer for anyone who wished to explore it

Search results for query: Danny Dyer

www.urban75.net

 

[Elpenor]

Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins is on Prime

Watch it now, you faaking mug