My wife exclaimed: Is that supposed to be Kate Adie? It certainly took me out of the movie as the actress playing her was too posh and pretty. Worse was still to come.
In the film 'Who Dares Wins' Lewis Collins played the SAS soldier, here we have Jamie Bell playing real life SAS hero, Rusty Firmin. Collins was one of the stars of the television series, The Professionals. Collins was in the Territorial Army and did marathon walks to raise money for charity such as a sponsored walk with ex boxing world champion, John Conteh. Bell is the lad from Billy Elliot and did not convince me as a crack SAS officer.
I watched the SAS storming the Iranian Embassy live on television in 1980, I was a kid at the time. I was not entirely sure for the reasons why the staff in the embassy were being held hostage but by the end of the evening I certainly knew what the SAS were capable of.
I just felt the film was rather workmanlike, a glorified television movie which told its story efficiently but lacked the excitement I felt of the events I saw on TV all those years ago.
In the film 'Who Dares Wins' Lewis Collins played the SAS soldier, here we have Jamie Bell playing real life SAS hero, Rusty Firmin. Collins was one of the stars of the television series, The Professionals. Collins was in the Territorial Army and did marathon walks to raise money for charity such as a sponsored walk with ex boxing world champion, John Conteh. Bell is the lad from Billy Elliot and did not convince me as a crack SAS officer.
I watched the SAS storming the Iranian Embassy live on television in 1980, I was a kid at the time. I was not entirely sure for the reasons why the staff in the embassy were being held hostage but by the end of the evening I certainly knew what the SAS were capable of.
I just felt the film was rather workmanlike, a glorified television movie which told its story efficiently but lacked the excitement I felt of the events I saw on TV all those years ago.