Rent Marching Powder (2025)

Marching Poo-der - Marching Powder review by AER

Danny Dyer is back from TV land to hit UK cinema screens with this unfunny comedy about an ageing football hooligan. It's a shame as it's determinedly anti-woke stance would've been used to puncture pompous attitudes to the working-class but it misses easy targets left right and centre. What could've upset a lot of liberals by having something to say, fails to be clever. It's sweary, right-wing, embarrassing and has maybe two lines that raise a smile. This also works as a sequel to director Nick Love's earlier FOOTBALL HOOLIGAN, you jils.

This particular liberal-minded viewer was disappointed there was no fight in the dog. Just bluster.

PS: My local Big Issue seller was telling me he'd gone to the cinema for the first time in years and his mate chose this for them to see. I quote, "Marching Powder put me off going watching films for life, mate..." It's not quite that bad. But you get the picture.

Unfunny, Unappealing & Ridiculous - Marching Powder review by GI

This is a typical Nick Love directed film, one that suffers from a need to go over the top and results in a film that only people who behave and have the limited intelligence of the characters in the film will enjoy. The sort of people who will believe the main character, Jack, is some sort of hero. Danny Dyer plays Jack, a middle aged, unemployed thug addicted to cocaine, a poor father and husband and reliant on his somewhat nasty father in law (Geoff Bell) for his house and income. His only redeeming feature is that his wife (Stephanie Leonidas) unbelievingly still loves him, although her patience is running thin. Jack hangs out with a load of beer swilling, drug addicted likeminded thugs whose only passion is attacking rival football thugs. After being arrested Jack is given a chance to sort himself out or go to jail but he struggles to let go of the life he has chosen. If this is meant to be a social commentary narrative then it fails completely. Drug use here is seen as a wonderful thing and so too is children's access to hard core porn which Jack freely allows his young son to watch. The comedy here is limited, the odd laugh mostly as Jack breaks the fourth wall, but this is a ridiculous film about ridiculous people. Outrageous this is clearly meant to be but I fear the result will be the opposite of what is intended.