Album Review

Pimp –

• 19th May 2010

Danny Dyer takes a back seat in this Soho set video drama that follows a Soho Pimp around his business in London’s sex underworld, before being dragged into something altogether all the more dangerous.

Our protagonist Woody is followed around by a camera crew as he encounters the likes of common colleagues, clients, his boss Stanley (Dyer), staff and even Chinese gangsters as his world starts to crumble around him.

Then things start to get dangerous as he is subjected to performance tapes that end in the mutilation and death of one of his girls. Things indeed get all the more serious for Woody as he tried to untangle himself from a lifestyle that suddenly seems an ill fit.

Dyer takes on more of an extended cameo in this film – but he’s at his foul mouthed cheekie chappie same old. The rest of the supporting cast get to pretend to be all docu-drama by talking to camera as they are interviewed as being part of Woody’s world. The editing style is livened up to try to inject a bit of interest – but in reality you are watching a very turgidly shot video.

Anyone interested in the Soho sex world might get a glimpse of knowledge here and there about it – but the dramatic angle of this film isn’t a very strong one.

The title is likely to appeal in part to Dyers hard core fan base – but otherwise is likely to shift higher numbers when it’s actually placed on the shelves in the area it depicts.

Pimp has been given a very limited cinema release on 21st May before it hit’s shelves on the 24th.

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