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Sweeney! Movie Collection (Sweeney!/Sweeney 2) [1976]
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Shut it!
Review date: 2008-04-19 Rating: 8 out of 10
Great stuff. A shameless world of birds, shooters, guvnors and cars like your dad drove..
This is how the Bill used to be before they adopted soap-opera style plots and policemen and women who look like catalogue models. The Sweeney movies are a wonderful mix of vicious villains and grumpy, randy, chain smoking, drink-driving policemen. Yes the clothes and decor are hilarious (check out Carter's migraine-inducing bathroom wallpaper in the 1st movie)but they are absorbing, exciting thrillers. Sweeney 2 is my favourite, as the action is offset by a surprising amount of humour. The bickering, occasionally bumbling policemen ( the brewery stake-out is hysterical)and the running gags of Regan and the telephonist and his frustration with his new driver make the characters that little bit more human than your average uk police show of the time. John Thaw's potrayal of shock and frustration at the bloody climax is truly moving.His rapport with Dennis Waterman makes them one of THE great double acts of '70s tv
Wonderful un-pc fun
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Reviews
Half good half bad
Review date: 2007-10-13 Rating: 6 out of 10
A shame that the first film is bundled with the second. Sweeney! rattles along with some of the same urgency as the TV series.
Sweeney 2 is a terrible waste of time, with so little pace the director appears to have left the camera running in the hope the cast will improvise some better dialogue. A plot that makes little sense and a so-called climax that doesn't even happen near the end. First film Deft, second one DULL!
Great stuff from the sweeney boys
Review date: 2007-06-04 Rating: 8 out of 10
There is a bit of a snooty myth going around that the Sweeney movies weren't up to much. Unpleasant cash-ins with very little to recommend them.
I must contest this view. 'Sweeney' - the most maligned - is a pretty good crime thriller. Okay, it's not Jack and George leaning on a 'snout' to get the 'blaggers' in the typical Sweeney way, however, as a sort-of political thriller, it holds together.
Regan is framed and off the force. Can he get back? Well, of course, but he also puts paid to a massive, American-led conspiracy. Diane Keen is great and, gosh, you do get to see a lot of her and the Oxo woman is a high class call girl! Goodness. Great period feel and I actually thought the ending was pretty sweet.
I was less convinced by Sweeney 2, which is generally felt superior because Troy Kennedy Martin wrote the script. Don't get me wrong, it is tremendous fun, but why these blaggers were shooting their own team members if they looked like getting caught was beyond me. Seventies blaggers were not famatics, they were professional criminals.
Nevertheless - great entertainment. Regan, drunk, trying to chat up the woman from the The Upper Hand. Superb.
Buy it and add to all those Sweeney series. You deserve it!
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Dennis Waterman
Ian Bannen
Colin Welland
Barry Foster
John Thaw
Creators:
John Thaw (Primary Contributor)
Dennis Waterman (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Optimum Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
EAN: 5060034579137
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 2
Format: Anamorphic, PAL,
Release date: 2007-02-12
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audience rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 198 minutes
Language: English (Original Language)