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Summary: Harold's dilema
Review: This film possibly deserves to be in the one of the best gangster movies made club. If your collection includes Godfather 1&2, Scarface,Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction then this movie is for you. ( you sick person !) Filmed in London with advice from genuine East End Crims on how they would handle various situations, this film follows the last 36 hours of Harlod Shand as the provisional IRA decide to get even. The only problem is Harold does not know who is having a go at him or why. Don't expect fancy special effects etc, this is a movie that is made in the real world and hits the spot. I love the scene when Harold is walking through Heathrow Airport. Harold's right hand man Razors is just brilliant and the performance by Bob Hoskins as Harold is unforgetable. Some of the verbal is brilliant ! For sure this is one for the collection !
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Summary: Great mobster flick!!! Bob Hoskins rules!!! Five Stars A+
Review: This great British mobster flick is on of the very best, on par with The Godfather and Goodfellas!!! Bob Hoskins is wonderful in the title role and and the supporting cast is awesome also, which includes Dame Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan a pre James Bond role(He plays a heavy). This Criterion DVD is spectalular and the picture and sound a are first rate!!! The only extra is 2 trailers(American and British),but thats fine. Warning!!! This is a very violent film,this film is definately for adults,NOT for the kiddies!!!(This film originally had a X rating!!!) So if you like mobster flicks, this ones for you!!! Five Stars!!! A+
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Summary: A briliant film
Review: This is a classical tragedy turned inside-out: it even follows the classical unities of time, place, and action. Forget about all the English slang and the complaints about lack of translation--the meaning is plain, even if the terms are unfamiliar. The cast is brilliant, and the last 30 seconds of the movie, almost enitrely a close-up of Hoskins's face, can't be described: it's one of the best performances captured on film. The only downside is cheesy soundtrack--blame the studio for that.
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Summary: Francis Monkman
Review: This is a fine film...tough and complicated. I'd rate it far superior to any American gangster film. It features a driving and under rated soundtrack from Francis Monkman. The acting is, of course, first rate.
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Summary: not as good as I remembered
Review: This is a good film but the DVD leaves a LOT to be desired. English subtitles would help a lot. Bob Hoskins' accent is virtually incomprehensible to my American ears. Much of the dialogue in fact might as well have been in German (which I understand as well as I understand the language spoken in this movie).The English actors playing the parts of Americans are rather amusing. They don't quite get the accents right. Hoskins' scene at the end when he lectures the Americans is particularly funny, because no American would actually have any idea what he was saying. It all seems like a skit on Saturday Night Live. Worth watching this movie just for that scene.
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Summary: not as good as I remembered
Review: This is a good film but the DVD leaves a LOT to be desired. English subtitles would help a lot. Bob Hoskins' accent is virtually incomprehensible to my American ears. Much of the dialogue in fact might as well have been in German (which I understand as well as I understand the language spoken in this movie). The English actors playing the parts of Americans are rather amusing. They don't quite get the accents right. Hoskins' scene at the end when he lectures the Americans is particularly funny, because no American would actually have any idea what he was saying. It all seems like a skit on Saturday Night Live. Worth watching this movie just for that scene.
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Summary: a cool film with great music
Review: This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD version of the film. This film is a bit different for me given that Bob Hoskins is in it. The first film with Bob Hoskins I saw was "Who framed roger rabbit" I had seen it countless times before seeing this and have thought of his faked American accent in that film to be his normal one. Seeing this film, where he does a Cockney British accent is more unusual than his regular British accent. The film starts with the unexplained murder of several people. We later learn that they all are members of a Harold's (Bob hoskins) gang. He begins to have difficulty running his gang and trying to close a deal with another gang. The film also has a short appearance by Pierce Brosnan in one of his very first film roles. 007 fans would know him best. The DVD only has the British and American theatrical trailers as special features.
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Summary: A gangster film of raging, headlong power.
Review: Until I saw Bob Hoskins in "The Long Good Friday," I thought the British were incapable of producing an actor who had the style and power of James Cagney. This movie was my introduction to the wonderful craft of Hoskins, and also--except for a couple of Masterpiece Theatre productions--to the wonderful work of Helen Mirren, here playing the upper-class moll to Hoskins's lower-class but extremely wealthy mob boss. Hoskins, anxious to go legit with a multi-billion-pound Thameside development deal, is suddenly bedeviled by acts of terrorism against his organization; in a jigsaw-puzzle style that leaves the audience as much in the dark as Hoskins, but which finally becomes plain with ferocious clarity, the identity and motives of Hoskins' attackers are revealed. "The Long Good Friday" is a marvel of good acting, witty dialogue and kinetic energy, helped by a propulsive music score and photography that manages to be both gritty and lyrical. The violence and language are appropriate to the theme, so those looking for a wholesome family film should look elsewhere. Watch for the very young Pierce Brosnan in a tiny but crucial role.
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Summary: A gangster film of raging, headlong power.
Review: Until I saw Bob Hoskins in "The Long Good Friday," I thought the British were incapable of producing an actor who had the style and power of James Cagney. This movie was my introduction to the wonderful craft of Hoskins, and also--except for a couple of Masterpiece Theatre productions--to the wonderful work of Helen Mirren, here playing the upper-class moll to Hoskins's lower-class but extremely wealthy mob boss. Hoskins, anxious to go legit with a multi-billion-pound Thameside development deal, is suddenly bedeviled by acts of terrorism against his organization; in a jigsaw-puzzle style that leaves the audience as much in the dark as Hoskins, but which finally becomes plain with ferocious clarity, the identity and motives of Hoskins' attackers are revealed. "The Long Good Friday" is a marvel of good acting, witty dialogue and kinetic energy, helped by a propulsive music score and photography that manages to be both gritty and lyrical. The violence and language are appropriate to the theme, so those looking for a wholesome family film should look elsewhere. Watch for the very young Pierce Brosnan in a tiny but crucial role.
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Summary: You and Bob are just as confused
Review: You know more about what has happened than mob boss Bob Hoskins, but you have to learn more about him and his operation to piece it all together. Makes you pay attention. As the various scenes go by you and Bob know more about what's happening, but... Very interesting, has good theme music, and a bit part by pre-Remington Steele Pierce Brosnan.
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