Johnny Was

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Johnny Was is a British gangster movie directed by Mark Hammond and written by Brendan Foley and made by Ben Katz Productions, Borderline Productions and Nordisk Film in 2005 and released in the UK by Sony Pictures and in the US by First Look Studios.

1 Synposis
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[edit] Synposis

Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, hellbent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escape Brixton, they are trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house, sandwiched between a Rastafarian reggae pirate radio station upstairs and a West Indian Yardie crack-dealing gangster, Julius, downstairs.

As the charismatic Flynn finds common ground with the Yardies, Johnny fights to realize a peace process of his own, but makes the mistake of falling for Julius's girlfriend Rita, causing all-out war. A thriller in the vein of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and The Long Good Friday, in which questions of race, morality, identity and loyalty play out against a soundtrack of reggae, rock, new wave and soul.

Variety raved about the original reggae soundtrack by Adrian Sherwood.^{[citation needed]}