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double x

posted 18 years ago by paulmoran99
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I saw this film last night; like the locked-in eyeballing of the mongoose and snake, I couldn't look away. This was my redemption; I have paid my dues.
Why didn't the perpetrators, the production team, report sick? Where was common sense and reality-checking when this crime was being filmed? Where was the screen warning that the film was unsuitable for children, adults, sick dogs and all other known life forms?
It has one virtue; there has to be a totally,100% crap film, by which to judge all the other totally crap films; and this is it!
If there was a Bottom 100 Worst Film Ever, Double X wouldn't make the list.
I feel, however for Norman Wisdom, who gave so much to British comedy in the Fifties.I only hope he got some beer money from it.

[–] melsen 18 years ago

You're quite wrong, it's an excellent little funny crimer.

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[–] acameraguy 16 years ago

I did a few days as B camera focus on this film and could tell that it was going to be a turkey. I turned down a couple of weeks further shooting and took a better job instead. It was by all accounts not a particularly happy shoot involving a number of incidents some of the crew would probably like to forget. Barry Norman reviewed it on Film 92 saying that after an evening at the pub and a curry, it would just pass muster as a video when you got home, as long as you had a few cans of lager left. It was on in a London West End cinema for a few days, playing to empty seats, before it was taken off. It does come up occasionally on a satellite. It is a truly awful film.

[–] wendysamuelson 14 years ago

I am not well. why? because I actually liked this film. why do the brits talk themselves down? this is a good film , realistically shot and has a grittiness to it which gives it depth. i liked Norman's role in it, his gentleness masked with resignation at being trapped in the organization added to the film. the characters were believable- yes, they may not have been A1 as in most american movies but this was a truly british film which as with most initially criticized films will age well and in years to come be seen as a cult movie.I have a massive Brit film collection from the 1940's through to the 1970's and many of them were not fully appreciated until years later.

[–] nwobhm 15 years ago

Just watched this last night (this morning really as I couldn't sleep) and quite liked it to be honest. Was nice to the see shots of bits of Scotland I know fairly well at the start and the first half of the film was quite good. Norman Wisdom played his part superbly and managed to play his normal style of character despite being a gangster. Once he died however the plot just got silly (Too many things to mention). So 7 out of 10 for the first half, 3 out of 10 for the second i.e. 5 overall. To be honest the plot could be made into a good thriller with better direction.

[–] Prismark10 14 years ago

This one has turkey written all over it.

Its that man again!!