Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson team up as a father and son criminal team with Gleeson being the brains, while Fassbender doing all the leg work. Gleeson as Colby is so deep in the game that he knows nothing else and refuses anything else, an attitude he expects from his son Chad, played by Fassbender but Chad has enough of a foot outside the game to know that he desperately does not want his young son Tyson to follow down this bloodline, even if Colby sees nothing wrong with the hand Jesus gave him (Colby is a God loving crook).

The film is about Chad being stuck in his outlaw life style. He wants it to be over but he has no options as he can't read or write, which blows my mind that a man in this day and age has no grasp at all of the language he's speaking, but it happens, and he's doing everything he can to make sure his son is educated.

One really cool thing I should mention about the film is the fact that it has some really awesome car chases in it. Not the main purpose of the film but Fassbender does play a getaway driver and his getaway driving was great.

It's a great performance piece coming from all the actors with Fassbender and Gleeson leading the charge. It really has that going for it as it's very small and really sweet and met to hit a nerve with those who know what it's like to be stuck and want better but just seem incapable of doing it.

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TRESPASS AGAINST US is a typical kind of slice-of-life story following the misadventures of a gypsy family who find themselves constantly in opposition to the local police force. It's basically a vehicle for the assembled stars to show off their various levels of magnetism, and in this respect it works. Michael Fassbender gives a likeable turn as the bad boy hero, well supported by Brendan Gleeson (less sweary and more thoughtful than usual), a typically kooky Sean Harris, and ROME's Lyndsey Marshal as his put-upon wife. The lack of a proper storyline hurts it somewhat, as it's very episodic in nature, just sort of bubbling along until very much a non-ending.