The Sweeney 2011

rednik

Nick Love is directing a new Sweeney movie. Ray Winstone will play Regan and Ben Drew will play Carter. I am a huge fan of the tv series and the 2 previous movies. The movie will be set in the present day, hopefully a good one.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/plan-b-joins-cast-of-the-sweeney-2608697.html

Rubik.

What, no Danny Dyer?

JP Liz V1

Ben Drew is Plan B :eek:

mike65

Sounds underwhelming, a one trick "hack" director who's bound to employ Danny Dire for some role or other! Ray Winstone is actually rather too old for Regan he and Carter were both in their mid-late 30s.

LittleBook

Up 'til late last year, Danny Dyer was playing Carter, hopefully he's out of it altogether.

Not that I can see this working if they set it in the present day ... there's no way they could put in the stuff The Sweeney got up to in the 70s!! :eek:

Shut it!! :pac:

JP Liz V1

Trailer is out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlzjvIS9pmg

mike65

Jesus, Regan and Carter must be spinning....

Mickeroo

Looks terrible. I'm sure Winstone will be good in it though.

Nick Love's films are all rubbish.

Mickeroo

Mickeroo wrote: »

Nick Love's films are all rubbish.

I'd have to disagree with that, bar Outlaw (which has the greatest audio commentary of all time) all Love's work has been rather bloody good. Goodbye Charlie Bright, The Business and the Firm are all very good films and The Football Factory isn't all bad either. Love gets a lot of stick, most of it seems to be stem from his casting of Danny Dyer (who isn't all bad eithere, check out the excellent Malice in Wonderland) rather than the film as a whole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5h9ZPBuBEs

As for The Sweeney, well I'm a long way from convinced. There's a lot of potential as the series remains one of the all time greats, I'm currently rewatching it and being constantly surprised by how far ahead of it's time it was. It tackles some very serious topics but much like Miami Vice people have very selective memories of it. Had they set the film in the 70s I would have far more interest but I guess there is the fear that had they done so people would have accused it of ripping off Life on Mars. Shame that Dennis Waterman isn't getting a cameo and that Plan B was cast in his role of Carter. As generic as the trailer looks it's biggest crime is giving Plan B a title card but then not bothering to give either Damien Lewis or Steven Mackintosh one.

To get rid of the bad taste that the trailer left in everyones mouth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmUOee7fRRQ

OldeCinemaSoz

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and the Firm are all very good films

I'm assuming you mean alan clarke's classic original with gary oldman?!?!

:eek:

if not then...total...credibility...lost...in the soz' manor...

pixelburp

Most interesting thing from the trailer was that it features moments from a car chase the Top Gear gang filmed. Or more specifically, Clarkson supposedly filmed the chase while Hammond arsed about.

Otherwise, the film looks frickin' terrible & shows Hollywood aren't the only ones capable of butchering an old franchise. If I didn't know better I would have guessed the trailer was some sort of parody of British films

JP Liz V1

Poster

mike65

Looks like a Terminator (with pies) flick!

/weeps....

Dempsey

That trailer looks terrible

Duggy747

Looks more like a pilot for a revamped Sweeney series on ITV than something cinematic.

It's da Sweeny, yeah? Baw, wiv added realism and is well gritty, a'right? Safe bruv......

MrStuffins

...................

is that Plan B?

Just back from this and I rather bloody enjoyed it. There isn't a hint of originality to be found in the film and there's not one moment that hasn't been done a dozen times before but Love manages to turn in a damn fine film. It lacks the intelligence of the original and Regan and Carter's relationship is nowhere neat as developed as in the TV show but both Winstone and Drew are good in their roles. Shame though that they mumble most of their lines making it hard to understand what's been said at times.

Plot wise, well it cribs scenes from a variety of genre classics, the shoot out is the one from Heat only in London's most famous square, the car chase is Ronin and the French Connection, the blossoming love story could be from any one of a dozen films and the score, sound-wise and the manner in which it's used is straight out of the last two Batman films. Yet all things considered it's a damn fine film, performances are good, the action is expertly well handled and the way they shoot London is quite impressive. It fells more like the first episode of a new Sweeney television show than a film and the always excellent Lewis is underused but at the end of the day it promised 2 hours of old fashioned police brutality and action and it more than delivers.

mike65

and all on 3 million quids.

Still won't watch it until its on ITV4 though.

Table Top Joe

Saw this last night and have to say i enjoyed it(as did my cinema buddy)it goes on a bit it too long(could have easily taken 10,20 minutes off it)but as action movies goes it a fine movie,certainly far better than we were expecting,Ray is in full on "oim a geezer inni!?" mode but it works i think,its a perfectly good "leave your brain at the door and enjoy it" job,no bad thing every now and then

TerrorFirmer

Good film, really enjoyed it. Solid action sequences and performances.

Bullseye1

I have to say the trailer on this looked pretty poor in the cinema. I think I'll wait for the rental.

Rewatching The Shield atm and realised that The Sweeney is pretty much an English based remake of the show. The film has more in common with the adventures of Mackay and the Strike team than it does the classics 70s show it's named for.

Dempsey

Got around to watching thid, surprisingly better than the trailer led me to believe. For a budget of ~£2m its very well done. worth a gawk

bodyhead

Saw this a while ago, was a fan of the series, very grity.

The movie though was terrible, the plot was laughable the shootout in the middle of London was so badly shot and executed (no pun intended) I could barely watch !

Have to disagree with the positive reviews, this was easily the worst movie of 2012, and I thought Outlaw was bad, the only saving grace is no Danny Dyer:D.