VENGEANCE is the name of the game in Outlaw, when some mild-mannered men are driven to the edge by yobs and the increasing plague of gang mentality in Britain.

The group of men is led by Bryant (Sean Bean), a disillusioned soldier who returns from Iraq to discover his wife having an affair and then, hours after touching down on British soil, gets confronted by a gang of yobs on a street corner.

He finds out about other men who have had enough and want to stop the rot.

One is a student who is viciously beaten and slashed across the face by a trio of brutes and left permenentaly scarred and terrified.

Another is beaten after a car accident and has to watch as his fiance is viciously punched in the face.

And a third has to face life after his wife and unborn child are killed by hoodlums involved in a court case.

The men think they can bring some justice to a decaying England but, eventually, all they seem to be doing is adding to the depth of violence sweeping the nation.

This is a hard-hitting film which sometimes makes unpleasant watching but it's powerful and demonstrates the lengths some men will eventually go to to seek revenge.

The acting from Rupert Friend, Danny Dyer and Lennie James as the three men pushed to the edge is faultless.