Turnout is the latest London based Blockbuster to come from the revolutionary UK film company, Revolver.
The film is reminiscent of British favourites such as ‘Snatch’ and ‘Rock ‘n’ Rolla’ with a ‘24 hours to sort my life out’ theme.
George (Russo) is a 27 year old lad from London who likes to drink, party, sleep in and chill with his friends for most of his waking hours. He also seems to have a little problem with staying away from illegal substances.
He has been dating the gorgeous Sophie, (Lovibond) a classy working city girl, for three years. George still can’t believe that he has such a gorgeous girl – who has a bigger bank balance than he could ever dream of. Not that he would ever dream of taking advantage of her finances, right?
Wrong. Men are so stupid. When Sophie suggests the couple take an exotic break to Barbados, she leaves £1200 at her boyfriend’s house to pay for the £2000 trip. When George loses his savings to a dodgy drugs deal, he takes the advice of his ‘friend’ and invests all of Sophie’s money in an illegitimate deal that was inevitably going to go wrong from the beginning.
After his plan to make money goes from bad to worse and friends take advantage of his situation, he realises his mates aren’t as good for him as what he once assumed and he is alone in his dilemma. As time runs out before he has to go to the travel agents to pay for his trip, he ends up losing his mates and losing his girl after she discovers his deceit and finally grows tired of his partying ways.
As George goes through his transition from a boy to man and tries to redeem himself, will he gain his friends and girl back? And will he finally get himself a real job?
I won’t ruin the ending for you, but what I will say is the film steers away from clichés as the film’s plot escalates and the moral consists of so much more than just getting the girl.
Turnout is a great piece of work which really captures London in its realest, grittiest form.
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