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No it fucking wasn't. Take it from an actual English person, if he was trying to do a cockney accent then he failed.
Fucking Don Cheadle in Ocean's 11 did a better job of doing a noticeably cockney accent. I genuinely had no idea Butcher was meant to be cockney
Let me guess, you probably think this is a good effort too
i mean, this is a silly thing to get upset about but whatever. idris elba is cockney. he's legitimately cockney in that he was born and raised within earshot of the bells of st. mary-le-bow. but you get people who haven't grown up hearing that accent everyday and they just do a michael caine impression with cockney rhyme and move on. it's like doing an impression of sean connery and saying you're doing a glasgowegian accent.
so is it decent in the sense that people NOT really familiar with an actual cockney accent? yeah it's fine. what the cockney accent represents and what it actually is are two different things really. people relate cockney accent to blue collar everyman, the same way people NOT from new york consider the new york accent the blue collar everyman. it's not really, but that's what people hear.