Recently Watched Films

Quite a nasty little movie. Love the mantrap.

Slow-burning neo-noir set in the 1990s. Ambiguous ending. Liked it overall, definitely better than it's ratings would suggest though there may be some Denzel Washington Syndrome going on with it. 

As for the ending, personally I don't think he did it. 

Music is a cut-throat business...

There are some genuine laughs to be had in this one.

Fucking grim. Gland I've seen it, but never want to see it again.

Stupid, tacky, but surprisingly self-aware sexplotation crap. Lots of fun!

Had potential, but ultimately it's a bit shit.

Fucking awful! There are too many technical and logic holes for this to be plausible. Too fucking dumb for words, and a strong cast look embarrassed to be associated with it.

I never knew Tina Fey could do drama, but there ya go. Martin Freeman's character is an annoying little git though.

They missed a prime opportunity to set it in the 70s, like the original TV series.

I have never seen the original show, but agreed. 

I was mainly interested in it because of the Top Gear connection (not that much, if anything, of what they shot is actually included in the film). 

I just found it quite frustrating plot wise. It feels like if they were going to kill a character, that maybe they killed the wrong one by offing Nancy, even without the stupid cliché's spelling the death out before it happens. It's like her death is supposed to motivate Jack...but how did he not have motivation to catch the crooks from the start? The whole romance subplot seems superfluous given how it ended. 

I know that Jack Regan was the main character in the original as well so this was never going to happen, but I was left feeling that the movie would have been a lot more interesting if it was Jack himself that got killed in the car park scene. That would have changed the movie completely. Kill Nancy off and you expose the romance subplot as the filler it turned out to be. It in no way changes the fact that Jack would be fully determined and committed to get the criminals just as he would be had she lived or not existed at all. Kill Jack off though, then the whole team is knocked for six and it completely changes the rest of the movie and the surviving main character's roles. 

As I said, it never could have happened that way. No Sweeney remake would have dared kill off either Jack Regan or George Carter. In a movie that wasn't a reboot of something else, such a plot would be possible. This is why many remakes end up sucking. And the more I think about this one the more it seems one of the most shittily written films I've seen it a while. 

Hilarious! Slightly surreal piss-take of teen sports movies.

Well that really fucks with your head until you figure out what's happening...