This movie is absolutely sh-t. It is a disgrace to the late, great, John Thaw and the writers, producers directors and rest of the cast of the original Sweeney. There is about 3 lines of plot and about 5 minutes that is understandable. The characters have no depth and Regan seems to be a murder obsessed thug with Carter being as thick as 30 planks. The actors have no talent at all. One gets the feeling that the writer wrote this during a severe hang over. Seriously if I was on a 12 hour pane trip and there was nothing to do but watch this movie or a golf championship, I would become an avid golf follower. To quote The Guardian's review: "The writer Ian Kennedy-Martin based the original television series The Sweeney on the hard-drinking escapades and questionable methods of a real-life Flying Squad copper, but this remake doesn't feel like it's based on anything remotely real. It doesn't even feel like it's based on The Sweeney."
Review of The Sweeney
