--- title: "Rollin' with the Nines" year: 2006 kind: "film" canonical: "https://film.one/film/rollin-with-the-nines" fi1m_id: "rollin-with-the-nines" imdb_id: "tt0437459" tmdb_id: 10084 wikidata_id: "Q3940360" fi1m_score: 42 critics_score: 40 critics_reviews: 4 published: "2026-10-01T19:28:46.045682+00:00" updated: "2026-10-01T19:29:10.416419+00:00" region: "SA" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Rollin' with the Nines (2006) Directed by Julian Gilbey · 1h 36m · Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller ## Identity Rollin' with the Nines - **Canonical:** https://film.one/film/rollin-with-the-nines - **Type:** Film - **Fi1m ID:** rollin-with-the-nines - **IMDb ID:** tt0437459 - **TMDB ID:** 10084 - **Wikidata ID:** Q3940360 - **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437459/, https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10084, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3940360 **Fi1m score: 42** · Critics 40 (early) from 4 reviews *In a sentence:* Lock, Stock with the jokes removed and nobody left to like > Julian Gilbey can stage a chase, and there are two here worth the price of admission. Around them is a gangland film in which everybody is horrible, every scene arrives on schedule, and faces from better British gangster films turn up to remind you of them. ## Synopsis London, the present day. Too Fine (Simon Webbe) fronts a garage crew with Pushy (Robbie Gee), Finny (Vas Blackwood) and Rage (Roffem Uzong), and he wants off the estate by way of a record deal rather than a gun. A night out ends in a shooting, and Too Fine is dead before the first act is over. His sister Hope (Naomi Taylor) will not let it rest. With Pushy and Finny she sets out to find the men responsible and, to pay for the hunt, moves the crew into the drug trade. Detective Andy White (Terry Stone) is on the case and on the take, and Capt. Fleming (Jason Flemyng) is above him. The first act shows the club, the estate, the first deal and a police force that behaves like another gang. ## Review *Rollin’ with the Nines* is a British gangster film about a garage crew that goes into the drug business, written by Julian Gilbey and Will Gilbey, directed by Julian, and cut by both. It has a car chase and a chase through woodland that are as well put together as anything in a British crime film of its budget, and almost nothing else. Most of its running time is spent with people we did not want to be near, saying things we had heard before. The cast is the most familiar thing about it, and the film plainly hopes that familiarity will do some of the work. Blackwood plays Finny as the nervous one, and he is the most watchable of the crew because he is the only one who seems frightened. Gee’s Pushy is louder and does less with it. Flemyng, as Capt. Fleming, has a handful of scenes and spends them looking as if he has wandered in from a better-lit film. Terry Stone’s Detective Andy White is the part people will remember. Stone plays him big: a bent copper who enjoys being bent, leaning into every doorway, grinning at people he is about to rob. It is not subtle, and we are not sure it is good, but it is alive, and in a film this grim that counts. Naomi Taylor’s Hope is the steadiest thing on screen. Taylor underplays where everyone around her overplays, and the few scenes about a woman who has lost her brother are the only ones with any feeling in them. The craft is why it is not a write-off. Ali Asad shoots the night scenes in hard orange streetlight and deep black, so that faces come out of nothing and go back into it, and the daytime scenes are drained of colour until the estate looks like a place the sun has given up on. The car chase is cut by Will and Julian Gilbey with real discipline. We always knew where both cars were, and the shots are held just long enough to register before the next one hits. We sat up for it. The pursuit through the woods is nearly as good, handheld and breathless, and it is the one stretch where the film stops telling us how hard everyone is and simply shows people running for their lives. The script is the problem, and it is a problem in every scene the cars are not in. The dialogue explains what we have just seen and announces what we are about to. Every character is exactly as nasty as the genre requires and not one degree more interesting. We flinched at the first killing, and we were meant to. By the fourth we had stopped flinching and started checking the time. Violence in a film like this has to cost something, and here it is just the next thing that happens. Nataasha Van Kampen’s flats and lock-ups look like places people actually live and hide things, and Shireena Facey has dressed the crew without a single wrong trainer. Sandy McLelland’s music and the garage tracks carry a good deal of the mood that the writing does not. These are the marks of a crew that cared, working on a story that did not give them much to care about. *Bullet Boy*, from 2004, covered the same London ground with half the gunfire and a great deal more to say about why young men pick up guns. The reviews so far have split, with one trade paper warmer than the rest, and we are nearer the cold end: there is talent here, and two sequences that prove it, and a film around them that treats its own people as targets. If you want a chase, the one on the road is worth finding and the one in the woods is a bonus. The 18 certificate is earned early and often, and the 96 minutes feel longer than they are. *Fi1m score 42, published 1 October 2026.* ## Straight answers **Is Rollin' with the Nines worth watching?** *Rollin' with the Nines* is not worth an evening for most people, and we scored it 42. Julian Gilbey stages a car chase and a pursuit through woodland with real skill, but the script around them explains everything twice and gives us nobody to care about. Fans of British gangster films wanting one good chase may find that enough. **How long is Rollin' with the Nines, and what is it rated?** *Rollin' with the Nines* runs 1h 36m. It is an action and crime film. **Where can I watch Rollin' with the Nines in Saudi Arabia?** *Rollin' with the Nines* is not on any streaming or rental service in Saudi Arabia at the moment. It is available in 2 other countries; change your country at the top of the page to see where. Availability is checked daily. **How violent or frightening is Rollin' with the Nines, and is it suitable for children?** *Rollin' with the Nines* carries an 18 certificate in the UK and earns it early and often, with repeated shootings, drug dealing and a bent police force. It is not suitable for children or younger teenagers, and the squeamish should stay away. The violence is frequent rather than frightening; we stopped flinching by the fourth killing. **How does Rollin' with the Nines compare to La Haine?** *Rollin' with the Nines* and [*La Haine*](https://film.one/film/la-haine) both spend time on a housing estate with young men and the police, but *La Haine* is the better film by a wide margin. Kassovitz gives his three friends humour and a friendship worth caring about; Gilbey gives his crew guns and dialogue that announces what comes next. Watch *La Haine* first, and probably instead. **What should I watch after Rollin' with the Nines?** After *Rollin' with the Nines*, try [*La Haine*](https://film.one/film/la-haine) (1995, Fi1m 90): A day on a Paris estate, shot in black and white, with a fuse lit. Then [*City of God*](https://film.one/film/city-of-god) (2002, Fi1m 86): Rio’s favelas across two decades, cut like a bullet and about something; and [*Top Boy*](https://film.one/tv/top-boy) (2011, Fi1m 81): The east London drug trade as a slow, patient series rather than a shootout. ### Reviews we read (4) - **Variety**, Leslie Felperin (70/100, inferred): Felperin finds the film a hard-edged, credible street drama with rough spots in its performances and script. She singles out its panache, especially a niftily edited car chase and crisp, noirish cinematography. [Read](https://variety.com/2006/film/reviews/rollin-with-the-nines-1200516823/) - **The Guardian**, Philip French (35/100, inferred): French gives a mixed-to-negative verdict, praising the handling of the action sequences while criticizing the acting and lack of retakes. He also singles out Naomi Taylor’s performance as alluring. [Read](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/apr/23/philipfrench7) - **Time Out**, Trevor Johnston (30/100, inferred): The review is negative, finding the film a familiar take on the gangster genre. It singles out its gunplay and car chases as part of that overfamiliar package. [Read](https://www.timeout.com/movies/rollin-with-the-nines) - **Empire**, Nick de Semlyen (25/100, inferred): The critic finds the film shallow and unpleasant despite a few entertaining moments. He singles out Stone’s corrupt-cop role and a lively forest pursuit, while faulting the unsympathetic characters and clichés. [Read](https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/rollin-nines-review/) ## Details - **Director:** Julian Gilbey - **Director:** Julian Gilbey - **Writer:** Julian Gilbey, Will Gilbey - **Cinematography:** Ali Asad - **Editor:** Julian Gilbey, Will Gilbey - **Music:** Sandy McLelland - **Production design:** Nataasha Van Kampen - **Costume design:** Shireena Facey - **Producer:** Geoff Austin, Alex Rofaila, Rebecca Knapp - **Cast:** Vas Blackwood as Finny; Robbie Gee as Pushy; Terry Stone as Detective Andy White; Jason Flemyng as Capt. Fleming; Naomi Taylor as Hope; Billy Murray as David Brumby; Dominic Alan-Smith as Det. Ed Haines; Simon Webbe as Too Fine - **Runtime:** 1h 36m - **First release (the UK):** 21 April 2006 - **Genres:** Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller - **Budget:** $500,000 ## Where to watch in Saudi Arabia Not streaming, renting or buying in Saudi Arabia at the last check. Also available in: CA, US. Add `?region=XX` to this URL for another country. ## If you liked this - *Bullet Boy* (2004): Hackney, one gun, and a film that asks what it costs to pick it up - *La Haine* (1995), Fi1m 90: A day on a Paris estate, shot in black and white, with a fuse lit — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/la-haine.md) - *City of God* (2002), Fi1m 86: Rio’s favelas across two decades, cut like a bullet and about something — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/city-of-god.md) - *Ill Manors* (2012): Plan B’s Forest Gate, told in rhyme, angrier and more honest than most - *Top Boy* (2011), Fi1m 81: The east London drug trade as a slow, patient series rather than a shootout — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/tv/top-boy.md) --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/film/rollin-with-the-nines