saw it on tv yesterday,not as good as I remembered

I wasnt aware of the dates of the showing and the sentences but im not surprised about that. I worked with a girl who used to work for a tv production company, researching and putting together production ideas that are then sent to broadcaster for commissioning.

Many of the programming creatives are instigated by doing desk research for events and where their anniversaries fall into the year. I wouldnt be surprised if a documentary or such like was rejected but the date was pencilled in to show the film.

Anyways, perhaps you are right about your criticisms of the film, but i hadnt seen this one before, so for me it was a real gem discovery. Highly stylised to the point it could perhaps keep company alongside more celebrated films like Get Carter. Very inventive too, i wouldnt be surprised if the mini offload from the removals lorry with the prison break scene, influenced the italian job. I dont know this to be the case but it stands to reason as likely.

Reading around i found out that the car chase scene led to the director being brought into to do Bullitt. Yeah all in all the film is a quality flik, and a real gem if like me you had never happened on it before.

Yeah, I liked the film a lot, but in most part the fun stopped after the job was pulled - a film that had been so deliciously intricate and detailed to the smallest minutiae, suddenly decided to take something of a shortcut to the ending. Not sure why. Maybe they thought the running time was getting too excessive to hold attention or whatever... which, of course, was a miscalculation right there as the film was breezing by like, well, a freight train. Engaging stuff from minute one as it was, with all the complicated pre-planning shenanigans dished out at a swift and steady clip, no bullsh-t or waste of time. Up until the post-robbery phase, I thought it ain´t no worse in any way than the best films of its sort, Rififi and all that... well, that saw a tiny bit of revision. But in the end it´s still a near-great caper since there´s nothing overtly ´bad´ about the last act as it were - it just coulda been more. Allaround fine acting, too, and Peter Yates as a crime movie director appears to be unduely overlooked - Bullitt, The Friends Of Eddie Coyle and this one here are all rather outstanding in their genre.



"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

Pretty good - 7.5

"She let me go."
~White Oleander

I liked it

my rating 7/10