The Sweeney (2012)
6/10
Not a Bad Movie!
28 November 2012
I liked this, it was fast paced, plenty of action from the word go with mainly realistic (mainly) characters.

The biggest flaws I had with it was the naming of the main leads as Reagan and Carter - it kept reminding me of the original series and in my opinion would have worked better if they had just made up 2 new characters.

One thing that did really put me off was Winstone and Hayley Atwell and the "love scenes" It kind of made my stomach turn watching overweight Winstone, looking somewhat like a Grandfatherly pig in heat - it didn't work and was just gross to watch, better left to the imagination.

The only other niggle really was the choice of Ben Drew as Carter, he looks about 12, tries to act more like Eminem and has such a problem in speaking English that he was barely understandable in many places.

As he shouts out as they leave the office - "Armed wobbewy in pwogwess!"

Other than those minor points an all round decent piece of film making - nothing to tax the brain, good entertainment.
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