646f9e108c Mean, gritty, dirty and low and that's just the Policeman Gary Keltie (Ken Stott) out for retribution for the horrendous crimes against the helpless people of Edinburgh during the nineteen seventies, by notorious, torturous, and killer, debt collector Nickie Dryden (Billy Connolly). This ishardthey come; giants of their professions one with a trade that needs to be kept secret and the other holding a grudge. Shot around the beautiful City of Edinburgh years later, with it coarse language and criminal underclass, we see the wrath of spite, hate, jealousy and violent vengeance all in the final showdown of justice and with it its uncompromising final debt to society. This movie really jumps away from your usual good guy bad guy characters for this genre of film. It places Nickie Dryden's character in a position where the viewer doesn't know weather to like him or not. The movie can be a little disturbing at times, but the performances by the main actors are marvelous. Billy Connely really sets a standard of good acting in this piece, and it demonstrates how broad his profile really is, ranging from brilliant comidian to this sometimes dark and un-questionable character in The Debt Collector. I really can't believe how highly rated this film is on these pages. The plot seemed to be unnecessarily full of very obvious twists (who actually thought that the policeman had killed Dryden's son?) The climactic stabbing scene was too awful to watch apart from on fast forward, and the attempt at a happy ending just lodged in the throat. All the male participants were mentally unstable which ment that there was no sympathy for any of them. I can't believe that my local paper described it"funny", surely some mistake?
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