Sign up to The Irish Times Archive (1859 - 2008)My Account »

Fri 03 Mar 2007VIGILANTE FORCEREVIEWED - OUTLAW:Though provocative, Outlaw ultimately sensationalises the violence it appears to condemn, writes Michael DwyerAS Paul Anka croons the anodyne Puppy Love on the soundtrack, Outlaw opens on a deceptively idyllic sequence of a young middle-class couple on their wedding day in London. There is the briefest suspicion that writer-director Nick Love has gone all soft and gooey after his abrasive, darkhumoured dramas, The Football Factory, dealing with soccer hooligans, and The Business, set among British criminals on the Costa del Sol in the 1980s.