Basic Plot
The film opens with the gang initiation, involving the taking of drugs and holding a pistol, of a boy on a council estate in South London, in another scene right after apparently filmed on a mobile phone, three gang members harass and shoot dead a mother walking her child while joyriding around the estate on a motorcycle. While fleeing the murder scene, they speed across a road in front of an oncoming truck and are also killed. The titular Harry Brown (Caine), an elderly former Royal Marine and Northern Ireland veteran and Royal Marines Commando, suffering from emphysema, wakes to news of these deaths over the radio. With his wife sick in hospital, in order to visit her Harry must cut through a public underpass which is a gathering spot at all hours by local thugs and gang members.
Basic Plot
Sam (Noel Clarke) is released from jail after six years for the murder of Trife (Aml Ameen). Sam soon realises people are out for revenge, namely Jay (Adam Deacon) and Trife's cousin, Sam visits the graveyard where Trife is buried. He is followed by Trife's cousin who attempts to stab him but is beaten. We encounter Dabs (Ben Drew), Omen (Jacob Anderson) who is actually Sam's brother and Henry (Arnold Oceng). Omen heads off while Dabs and Henry visit Ike (Nathan Constance) and Andreas (Pierre Mascolo), who run a stolen goods pawnshop. Jay arrives looking for a gun to kill Sam but is convinced instead to hire Dabs, and his friends to do the job, despite knowing that Omen is part of the crew. Henry doesn't want to be involved in the plot. He and Dabs fight and he's left unconscious.
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