The Crew

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Adrian Vitoria directs. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Shot for just $3.6M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
• 2Released 18 years ago.
• 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
• 4Scot Williams and Kenny Doughty and Rory McCann carry the top of the cast.
• 5IMDB entry: tt1071880 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
• 6Only 70 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime

117 min · 1h 57m

Status

Released

Budget

$3,600,000

Original language

EN

Certification (US)

R

IMDB

The Crew (2008) ↗

Also by

Adrian Vitoria

• 
  Brookside: Unfinished Business

  2003 · ★ 7.0
• 
  Age of Heroes

  2011 · ★ 5.4

Trailers & featurettes

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  The Crew (2008) ORIGINAL TRAILER

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Community reviews

What people are saying

• CinemaSerf2025-02-22
  ★ 5/10

  “Ged” (Scot Williams) has made a very good living over the years and now lives an outwardly respectable life with his family in London. Meantime, though, he is investing a cool £250,000 in one last scheme to raise him millions and hopefully set him on the straight and narrow. The thing is, his lieutenants - led by “Ratter” (Kenny Doughty) are bored living on what they perceive to be the scraps. They know that there’s way more cash to be made if they start dealing hard drugs. “Ged” wants no truck with this, but egged on by his pal “Paul” (Philip Olivier), “Ratter” is determined that he will get his way - by hook or by crook. With the pressure mounting on their boss, revolution brewing amongst the troops and the deadly Serbs waiting in the wings to muscle in on this lucrative market, it’s going to take all “Ged” can muster to save himself and his family from the new world order. On the face of it, this is a solid gangster story but as to it’s execution - well that is just weak. Loads of faux-Scouse accents pepper the over-scripted drama; loads more Anglo-Saxon expletives don’t make these actors into plausible hard-men and the whole thing looks like it’s a low budget episode from a 1980s television series. Some of it is intentionally distasteful and on occasion that does work at illustrating just how odious, depraved and greedy some of this gang are, but so often those scenes seem here for their own gratification rather than to put any meat on the bones of these characters and at just over two hours, it takes far too long to get to anything like a sharp end about which I’d lost interest after some random sexually fluid brutality in a penthouse. It’s based on a fairly graphic novel and I think it’d be best just to read that and let your own imagination do the work that Adrian Vitoria doesn’t manage to do, here. This is just poor, sorry.

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Key crew

Release history · US

When it landed

• Theatrical2008-10-01R

Also known as

International titles

• Instinto asesinoES
• КомандаRU