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A humid Sunday night at the cinema, and what's to watch? Well, this weekend, The Business was the most appealing out of all of the new releases. I'm kind of a secret fan of the star of the movie, the always underrated Danny Dyer, who sparkled in 1999's Human Traffic. Here he plays Frankie, a young lad who flees England to deliver a 'package' to playboy Charlie (Tamer Hussan) in Costa del Sol. Upon his arrival Frankie is right away seduced by the glamous lifestyle that Charlie and business partner Sammy (Geoff Bell) enjoy courtesy of, well . . . the business.

The film is directed by Nick Love, the guy responsible for last year's The Football Factory - a movie that I wasn't overly fond of. It wasn't the violence of that piece that put me off, for some reason I just didn't vibe with it. Certainly not as much as I did with this film. True, The Business isn't a classic, and relies heavily on Goodfellas structure and storyline (Dyer's Frankie provides the movie with a voice-over, very much like Liotta's Henry Hill and then there's the whole rise to power and fall from grace and the love affair with cocaine - all of which mirror the Scorsese classic). Hell, Love even has his own Joe Pecsi in the form of Geoff Bell's Sammy.

Still The Business is extremely well paced, and as the proceedings take place back in the 1980's, (the Costa del Crime's heyday) we're treated to tons of fantastic eighties music, which flows throughout and serves to segue the scenes together in a fluid manner. Love's movie takes us into the Thatcher era from over twenty years ago, and here he uses some superb camera movements, setups and exposures - a fitting nod to his obvious inspiration. In fact, I've heard that the movie was shot on HD and transferred to 35mm film, which gives the film a superb saturated, grainy effect, which works wonders with the bright colors, cheezy attire and blazing hot Spanish sun.

But the true dynamite part of the movie, and the glue that holds it all together is the performances. Particularly that of Dyer and Hussan. As I said at the head of the review, I'm a fan of the young actor Dyer, and can't understand why Hollywood hasn't been calling sooner. His strong, but understated and humble Frankie is, for my money, going to be up there with the best turns of the year, and he manages to bag some of the better lines in Love's script. "He was so hard, his nightmares were scared of him." Oh, and the subject of that line - Geoff Bell's character Sammy - is one of the most menacing characters I've seen since Ben Kingsley graced the screen a couple of years ago in the similarly themed Sexy Beast. Pure evil.

A credit to Dyer's achievement is also the performance of Tamer Hussan. Without the, I suppose you could say chemistry between the two characters, or the bond they form if you prefer, this movie wouldn't work, and the two work extremely well together. You can't help but root for them to pull it all off. I love the scene in the quarry where the three main actors are testing bullet proof vests - dead funny.

The Business is refreshingly violent (hell, there are too many movies that shy away from what they're insinuating), and it's riddled with the most colorful facking language in any film so far this year and it is, at one point, bloody gory (you'll know which scene I'm referring to when you see it). But it's also extremely funny, engaging and above all entertaining. A great night out, and worth it for the comedy one-liner and the eighties music on it's own!

Good to see a British film out there with a big pair of balls for a change.