- Actors: Sadie Frost, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke
- Directors: Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
- Writers: Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis
- Producers: Dominic Anciano, David M. Thompson, Jane Tranter, Jim Beach
- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Import
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Lions Gate
- Release Date: April 17 2001
- Run Time: 103 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000059HAW
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In the wake of Quentin Tarantino's genuinely inventive and impressive Reservoir Dogs, American indie "rebels" saturated the market with raw, violent, self-consciously clever crime thrillers and caper films. The overkill buried the genre, but the British have filled that much-needed void in the years since with such films as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. Love, Honor, and Obey is one of the most disposable entries, which is too bad considering the caliber of the cast. Jonny Lee Miller is the wannabe gangster who cajoles his best buddy Jude Law into getting him into big, bad Ray Winstone's mob. When he gets bored because "everybody is busy poncing about" he decides to ignite a gang war with rival Sean Pertwee. The versatile Kathy Burke is funny as the frustrated wife of an impotent gunman, Sadie Frost is largely wasted as Ray's not quite blushing bride, and Rhys Ifans leers and sneers as a hotheaded thug. Ostensibly the movie is a comedy, full of smarmy sex jokes, tough guys goofing in karaoke numbers, baffling scenes of sadistic violence played for laughs, and Miller narrating in full clown make-up. Dominic Anciano and Ray Burdis, who not only write and direct but costar as bouncers with an Abbot and Costello patter, play the whole thing like a comedy improvisation gone horribly wrong. It's oddly fascinating in parts but ultimately so awkward and unfocused it dissolves away in mean-spirited meaninglessness. --Sean Axmaker
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1.0 out of 5 stars
A GHOUL-ASH OF GIGGLES AND GUFFAWS,
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This review is from: Love Honor & Obey (VHS Tape)
Unlike "Donny Brasco," a very gripping treatment of a smilar theme, I doubt "Love, Honour & Obey" was ever intended to be more than an amusing parody of life in a mob, a production intended to ensure its producers a reasonable, risk-free return on their investment. As such, the characters are caricatures whom one recognizes but does not relate to, the situations are sterotypes with predictable outcomes, and the whole pastiche is seasoned with liberal measures of sex and vulgarity to satisfy the lowest common denominator of the unreflecting masses. A triumph of mediocrity!To be sure, here and there a light sprinkling of the patrician seasons this otherwise plebeian dish, as when (1) one of the mob leaders orders his men to "fix bayonettes," thereby terrorizing the rival mob, or (2) the two mob leaders kill each other's troublemakers and live happily ever after. But this is not enough to transform turkey into truffles, and so I rate it at 1 star: not without merit, but not far from it; a ghoul-ash of dead parts seasoned with giggles and guffaws. This is not to deny that "Love, Honour & Obey" is a truly unique flim, but to affirm that the industry could probably not support another of its caliber. .
1.0 out of 5 stars
I never walk out of a movie but...,
By Patrick (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: "Love, Honour And Obey (Widescreen) " (DVD)
The only reason why I rented this movie was because Jude Law is in it. It just goes to show that all actors star in horrible movies from time to time. Watching "Love,Honour and Obey" is like watching a movies deleted scenes without watching the actual movie. Deleted scenes are often of low quality, there's no point to them and they're very boring. That sums this movie up in a nut shell.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't waste your money,
By A Customer
This review is from: "Love, Honour And Obey (Widescreen) " (DVD)
What do you get when you cross an impossibly confusing (yet boring) plot with awful directing? "Love, Honour, and Obey"The movie flows like it was filmed in about 2 days and thrown together in someone's basement editing room. (I'll admit, I only rented it because Jude Law was in it. In actuality, he's not even the main character.) Unless you'd particularly like to watch an hour and a half of unmotivated killing, bad dialouge, and old people having sex, take my advice: don't waste your money on this one.
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