Hackneys Finest
Set in the East London borough of Hackney, the film follows a part-time taxi dispatcher, part-time drug dealer as he gets into trouble when a crooked cop tries to steal a consignment meant for Welsh-Jamaican Yardies.
19 June 1965, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK
10 July 1964
10 August 1965, Nairobi, Kenya
April 17, 2015
East End cop movies are already such a tired cliche that trying to take a blackly comical approach makes this movie feel like an inadvertent spoof
August 12, 2015
t's these moments that make Hackney's Finest a lot of fun to watch and for the most part memorable.
April 02, 2015
The film-making is clunky, the voiceover from dealer Sirus (Nathanael Wiseman) is irksome and the gangster-police showdown is merely a showcase for some severed fingers and very large guns.
April 02, 2015
Despite the title, the film has zero sense of place and could have been shot anywhere with Victorian housing stock and a multiethnic cast.
