Genre

The genre of the film Rise Of The Foot Solider is action/gang wars.

Conventions: violent/chase scenes.
Music is upbeat to go along with action.
Scenes with blood or murders in them.

Subversion's: The language in the film is colloquial and cockney.
Our protagonist (hero) has a break down and starts crying as if he is beaten and in our "everyday" action films the main character always wins.

Characters:
Ricci Hartnett plays the role of Carlton Leach. Leach is dressed in denim jeans a t shirt and a leather jacket. He starts off as a respected football hooligan then becomes a bouncer of a club were he built up his army of men and then onwards he became Essex's nortoious gangster.
Terry Stone who plays Tony Tucker is an "old timer" as they call them. He has been a Essex gangster for years in the film and brings Leach up the criminal ladder in the film by giving him the right links. However, he dresses the same as Leach and gets "his hands dirty".
Billy Murray who plays Mickey Steele is a friend of Tony Tucker who dresses differently to him and Leach. Mickey wears suits in the film which portrays that he is a weathly gangster which brings up enigmas in the audience's mind of what is he doing to get all this money?

All these actors play the perfect gangster as they have stared previosuly in soaps and films with the same criminal/villian role such as Eastenders, The Bill etc.