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Posted by Colin Auty (Member # 231) on September 19, 2012, 06:44 AM:

Went to our local Apollo Cinema last night to watch the new Sweeney movie an update to the classic 1970's cop TV show with John Thaw and Denis Waterman.
Detective Jack Regan (your nicked!)is played by Ray Winstone and his side kick Sergeant George Carter by Ben Drew (aka rapper from Plan B)- both give convincing roles in this Nick Love,down to earth, 2012 take on the Scotland Yards Flying Squad ,making good use of London locations.
A simple story line , plenty of action, old fashioned shoot outs, and plenty chase sequences are here, the film is a blast(and doing well at the Box Office)- just wish they had kept the original music theme for the end titles- rather than an updated remix version which did'nt quite do it for me...but then I remember and watched the original TV series....

Posted by Adrian Winchester (Member # 248) on September 19, 2012, 07:14 AM:

Thanks for the review - I was wondering whether I should see it. I haven't seen the original Sweeney feature film (or Sweeney 2) so I wondered if this film is in any way a remake of the first one, or is it an entirely new story?

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on September 19, 2012, 05:04 PM:

There's an old saying that you can't go back, the original TV show
was one of the first in the UK to display hard hitting ( pardon the
pun ) police work fairly realistically with villains not always being
caught.This was a new concept for a TV police show that hadn't
been tried before, and coupled with the added violence was a
big hit over here,which is at odds as the 70s was a very violent
decade in the UK.Somehow,however much I like Ray Winstone,
his version of Jack Regan will never come close to John Thaw's
interpretation,likewise with Dennis Waterman's DCI Carter.Here
were 70's coppers, with hairstyles of the time.The two features
that were spinoffs from the series are still griity and are a social
comment of the time.Tough as it was in the 70s,I wish I could
return to them.

Posted by Rob Young. (Member # 131) on September 19, 2012, 08:58 PM:

Decided to delete post as maybe not the most appropriate place for it.

[ September 21, 2012, 12:10 PM: Message edited by: Rob Young. ]

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