Straight up from the start, the only reason I'm giving Top Dog any stars at all is because it's way more entertaining than it ever should be given the sum of it's parts. I genuinely think that it's Brit gangster film's first "so bad it's good" classic. Despite most of the cast acting well most of the time, and the highest of high grade cinematography constantly conspiring to give the film legitimacy, it's laughably bad script and plot undermine it at almost every possible turn. Join the protagonist on an almost completely pointless voyage of vengeance that unsurprisingly causes his life to completely fall apart in the film's car crash of a third act. Keen eyed viewers will note their own laundry list of characters making nonsensical choices and plain weird stuff, such as the obligatory argument in a back room of a pub that's so marred by mumbling it makes no human sense at all, or the sobbing sound that's supposed to be coming from an adult man that sounds like a nervous puppy.
