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Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison, hell bent on derailing the Irish peace process with a few well-placed bombs. Unable to escape Brixton, they are trapped together in Johnny's anything-but-safe safe house,sandwichedbetween aRastafarianreggae pirate radio station upstairs and a West Indian `Yardie' crack-dealing gangster, Julius, downstairs. As the charismatic Flynn findsCommon Groundwith the Yardies, Johnny fights to realize a peace process of his own, but makes the mistake of falling for Julius's girlfriend Rita, causing all-out war. A thriller in the vein of Lock Stock and The Long Good Friday, in which questions of race, morality, identity and loyalty play out against a great sound-track of reggae, rock, new wave and soul.
Johnny Doyle擺脫了在愛爾蘭罪惡的過去到倫敦隱名埋姓生活下來，不料他從前的精神導師Flynn從布里克斯頓（倫敦南部一地區）監獄逃出，並且計畫在一些地方放置炸彈以擾亂愛爾蘭和平進程。由於一直無法逃離布里克斯頓地區，他們只好躲在Johnny的安全得不能在安全的藏身之處，不過卻夾在樓上一家塔法里教（牙買加）的盜版雷鬼音樂電台和樓下一名叫做Julius的西印度“亞迪（牙買加人販毒運毒集團成員）"幫成員之間。當善於交際的Flynn與那名亞迪成員慢慢混熟時，Johnny卻在想盡辦法脫身，不幸的是他錯誤的愛上了Julius的女友Rita，從而引發了一場混戰。本片是一部帶有《兩桿大煙槍》和《漫長美好的星期五》特色的驚悚片，片中有著對種族、道德、人性和忠誠的反思，影片配樂也很精彩，都是非常好聽的雷鬼、搖滾、新浪潮和soul音樂。
