The actors played their characters well. Notable character performance by Ben Chaplin. Olivia Lovibond was a nice eye-candy at the beginning of the movie.Colin plays the lead character whom struggles to get his life together again after serving prison time. The movie seemed to emphasize more on the dark-side of human nature and not enough on redemption and change for the better good.On a side note, I did hope for a severe punishment for the duo-gangster-teenagers but was totally dissappointed at the end of the movie.Colin's character (Mitchel) should have continued-on but the creators of this movie are too engross in the era of 'the Departed', 'Gangs of New York'. The movie would have been better in the hands of Guy Ritchie.