Saw it back in 1988 with very high expectations, Melanie Griffith at her peak, Sting, Tommy Lee Jones, England, etc. Tried watching it again, today, to see if it was any better.
The answer, NOPE!
What you get is a movie that turns out to be soundtrack posing as a movie. Very, very, very slow. Sort of the Miami Vice vibe TV show set in Newcastle. It doesn't work. Any of it. You keep waiting for something to happen. Nope, more soundtrack and more bands.
In the end, the ugly Americans and Reagan/Thatcher lose out to the Brits and the expatriate Polish Community.
The answer, NOPE!
What you get is a movie that turns out to be soundtrack posing as a movie. Very, very, very slow. Sort of the Miami Vice vibe TV show set in Newcastle. It doesn't work. Any of it. You keep waiting for something to happen. Nope, more soundtrack and more bands.
In the end, the ugly Americans and Reagan/Thatcher lose out to the Brits and the expatriate Polish Community.