The dialogue was fine and the acting was fine, but I don't believe that an elite police squad, even London police, can be so incompetent.
Is it realistic that a group of police trained in the use of firearms should not actually be any good in shooting those firearms? The action scenes remind me of the old TV show, "The A-Team", where guns are blazing but no one seems to get hurt. Or, rather, it would, except that the bad guys have apparently been paying attention at the firing range. Surely in a real police organization, people who couldn't shoot straight, whose tactics were amateurish, who had no regard for public safety, and who had difficulty with the idea of calling for backup, should not be allowed out on the streets. More than that, I find it incomprehensible that a training program would be allowed to exist that produced such people as the end result.
As fine as the actors are, this movie does no credit to the UK police service.
Plot summary
Jack Regan, a hardened cop who doesn’t play by the rules, is confronted with a criminal from his past. With sidekick George Carter they are put on the case of a jewellery store heist that ends in a killing. But is that killing really an execution in disguise? With pressure from his boss and the fact that Regan is having an affair with that boss’s wife, it’s not going to be easy for him to stay out of trouble.
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March 05, 2013 at 10:47 AM
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Implausible
Nice look but awful direction and story
The film has a nice look to it. That blue tint looks good. The actors within are okay but not remarkable. The story is utter nonsense and has no logic behind it. And then there is the action. These coppers are absolute useless. The scenes are comical and the logic is baffling. Every single scene the director allows the crooks to do ridiculous things just so the story can move on. You spend the whole film wondering if they are being serious. As for the A-Team shoot outs...heavily armed men carrying heavy bags outrunning coppers...oh come on. The sound is good, the film looks good but the big fail here is the director. He clearly hasn't got a clue! and don't get me started on the coppers ability to shoot straight. Farcical :(
Not recommended, pity
Too Much Swearing?
I was enjoying this remake of an old classic but found myself being turned off by the endless swearing, nearly every sentence has a swear word in it, its almost like the writer was trying to fill the gaps between the dialogue.
The rating was a fifteen certificate which i did not believe was high enough. I understand that realism is what they were going for, but i feel it would have been a better movie with a drastic reduction in the quota for swear words. Ray Winstone was as large as life as ever and played a good part as Reagan, i felt that the part of Carter played by Ben Drew was a poor choice and he failed to engage.
The action was fast paced and the car chases were done with realism.