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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Great stuff. A shameless world of birds, shooters, guvnors and cars like your dad drove..
This is how the Bill used to be before they adopted soap-opera style plots and policemen and women who look like catalogue models. The Sweeney movies are a wonderful mix of vicious villains and grumpy, randy, chain smoking, drink-driving policemen. Yes the clothes and decor are hilarious (check out Carter's migraine-inducing bathroom wallpaper in the 1st movie)but they are absorbing, exciting thrillers. Sweeney 2 is my favourite, as the action is offset by a surprising amount of humour. The bickering, occasionally bumbling policemen ( the brewery stake-out is hysterical)and the running gags of Regan and the telephonist and his frustration with his new driver make the characters that little bit more human than your average uk police show of the time. John Thaw's potrayal of shock and frustration at the bloody climax is truly moving.His rapport with Dennis Waterman makes them one of THE great double acts of '70s tv
Wonderful un-pc fun
This is how the Bill used to be before they adopted soap-opera style plots and policemen and women who look like catalogue models. The Sweeney movies are a wonderful mix of vicious villains and grumpy, randy, chain smoking, drink-driving policemen. Yes the clothes and decor are hilarious (check out Carter's migraine-inducing bathroom wallpaper in the 1st movie)but they are absorbing, exciting thrillers. Sweeney 2 is my favourite, as the action is offset by a surprising amount of humour. The bickering, occasionally bumbling policemen ( the brewery stake-out is hysterical)and the running gags of Regan and the telephonist and his frustration with his new driver make the characters that little bit more human than your average uk police show of the time. John Thaw's potrayal of shock and frustration at the bloody climax is truly moving.His rapport with Dennis Waterman makes them one of THE great double acts of '70s tv
Wonderful un-pc fun
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
There is a bit of a snooty myth going around that the Sweeney movies weren't up to much. Unpleasant cash-ins with very little to recommend them.
I must contest this view. 'Sweeney' - the most maligned - is a pretty good crime thriller. Okay, it's not Jack and George leaning on a 'snout' to get the 'blaggers' in the typical Sweeney way, however, as a sort-of political thriller, it holds together.
Regan is framed and off the force. Can he get back? Well, of course, but he also puts paid to a massive, American-led conspiracy. Diane Keen is great and, gosh, you do get to see a lot of her and the Oxo woman is a high class call girl! Goodness. Great period feel and I actually thought the ending was pretty sweet.
I was less convinced by Sweeney 2, which is generally felt superior because Troy Kennedy Martin wrote the script. Don't get me wrong, it is tremendous fun, but why these blaggers were shooting their own team members if they looked like getting caught was beyond me. Seventies blaggers were not famatics, they were professional criminals.
Nevertheless - great entertainment. Regan, drunk, trying to chat up the woman from the The Upper Hand. Superb.
Buy it and add to all those Sweeney series. You deserve it!
I must contest this view. 'Sweeney' - the most maligned - is a pretty good crime thriller. Okay, it's not Jack and George leaning on a 'snout' to get the 'blaggers' in the typical Sweeney way, however, as a sort-of political thriller, it holds together.
Regan is framed and off the force. Can he get back? Well, of course, but he also puts paid to a massive, American-led conspiracy. Diane Keen is great and, gosh, you do get to see a lot of her and the Oxo woman is a high class call girl! Goodness. Great period feel and I actually thought the ending was pretty sweet.
I was less convinced by Sweeney 2, which is generally felt superior because Troy Kennedy Martin wrote the script. Don't get me wrong, it is tremendous fun, but why these blaggers were shooting their own team members if they looked like getting caught was beyond me. Seventies blaggers were not famatics, they were professional criminals.
Nevertheless - great entertainment. Regan, drunk, trying to chat up the woman from the The Upper Hand. Superb.
Buy it and add to all those Sweeney series. You deserve it!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I've just watched Sweeney! on TV on what was admittedly a quiet night despite the plethora of channels these days - and if I sound like I was a tad reluctant it was because I remembered I'd already seen the movie years ago. What I didn't remember was just how good this film is. It's a cracker.
I was a fan of the TV series, from which the movie is a spin-off, originally back in the Seventies, so that may account for the onset of my amnesia - age taking its toll, alas. But the years have not blunted the action one jot.
If you like your heroes a bit dog-eared - by long hours on a hard job, boozing, smoking, trying to pull the occasional lady who crosses their path, prepared to give the bad guys a good smacking to get results, and above all, totally realistic, this is the stuff. Moreover, it does it so well, it deserves to be recognised as a classic. It broke new ground in UK TV/cinema, was much imitated but never bettered, and is waiting for a new audience to find, for whom the Seventies was before their time and sent up by the likes of Life on Mars, which references The Sweeney in just about every frame.
The plot's intrigue builds inexorably. When an informant's girlfriend apparently commits suicide, he asks Detective Inspector Regan (the truly superb John Thaw) of Scotland Yard's elite Flying Squad, to look into the matter as a favour. Initially sceptical, when the number of people who knew the girl suddenly ending up dead starts to grow, Regan begins to change his mind, and we're flung into a complex web of conspiracy with powerful and totally ruthless villains, some of them in very high places. Regan and his side-kick Sergeant Carter (Dennis Waterman) and high-class call girl and potential witness Bianca (a gorgeous Diane Keen) are all in mortal danger.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the movie is that - obvious fashion items and other period detail aside - it has not dated at all. The action is breakneck, the violence terrifying and the antagonists fearsome. It was shocking stuff back then and it still is now. Again, it's the realism that socks home - you don't see actors scrambling down a whole flight of stair in a Bruce Willis movie to escape a machine-gun-toting killer. It's that kind of authenticity that gives the film its gritty, edge-of-the-seat, bite-your-nails-right-down grip.
It certainly lifted an otherwise flagging Friday night, I can tell you. Excellent stuff.
I was a fan of the TV series, from which the movie is a spin-off, originally back in the Seventies, so that may account for the onset of my amnesia - age taking its toll, alas. But the years have not blunted the action one jot.
If you like your heroes a bit dog-eared - by long hours on a hard job, boozing, smoking, trying to pull the occasional lady who crosses their path, prepared to give the bad guys a good smacking to get results, and above all, totally realistic, this is the stuff. Moreover, it does it so well, it deserves to be recognised as a classic. It broke new ground in UK TV/cinema, was much imitated but never bettered, and is waiting for a new audience to find, for whom the Seventies was before their time and sent up by the likes of Life on Mars, which references The Sweeney in just about every frame.
The plot's intrigue builds inexorably. When an informant's girlfriend apparently commits suicide, he asks Detective Inspector Regan (the truly superb John Thaw) of Scotland Yard's elite Flying Squad, to look into the matter as a favour. Initially sceptical, when the number of people who knew the girl suddenly ending up dead starts to grow, Regan begins to change his mind, and we're flung into a complex web of conspiracy with powerful and totally ruthless villains, some of them in very high places. Regan and his side-kick Sergeant Carter (Dennis Waterman) and high-class call girl and potential witness Bianca (a gorgeous Diane Keen) are all in mortal danger.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the movie is that - obvious fashion items and other period detail aside - it has not dated at all. The action is breakneck, the violence terrifying and the antagonists fearsome. It was shocking stuff back then and it still is now. Again, it's the realism that socks home - you don't see actors scrambling down a whole flight of stair in a Bruce Willis movie to escape a machine-gun-toting killer. It's that kind of authenticity that gives the film its gritty, edge-of-the-seat, bite-your-nails-right-down grip.
It certainly lifted an otherwise flagging Friday night, I can tell you. Excellent stuff.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Bit of a let down
I got this as a Sweeney fan and although my curiosity has been sated, in some ways I'm sorry to say I wish I hadn't bothered. Read more
Published 4 months ago by windywill
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Great films, hadn't seen the first one before, second was just as good as I remembered it.So for all you hairy arsed villians out there, shut it and watch.
Published 4 months ago by Colvin
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What can I say, a damn good film, I never tire of the Sweeney, just don't make them like this any more, The Late John Thaw and Dennis Waterman are brilliant, just fantastic, making... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Simon
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Great product at a great price, delivery was quick, I live in Spain and it only took three days to arrive.
Published 7 months ago by Hayhoe
Sweeney Sweeney 2
absolute class films, they don't make films like that any more. captured the true spirit of the 70's regan and carter were the best cops on tv no nonsense policing
Published 8 months ago by cloughie
Good drama
These two Sweeney films are mixed bags, with the first (a semi-political thriller) being the better of the two. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Junius
Sweet as a nut guv
I am a baby boomer and have watched my complete set of Sweeney TV episodes many times. Gritty and iconic cop series, excellent cast and all those seventies cars, clothes and the... Read more
Published 13 months ago by MikeB Cambs
Sweeney Todd-Flying Squad.
Detectives Regan & Carter investigate the suspected murder of a prostitute and find that there is major corruption, blackmail and murder bubbling under the surface. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Spike Owen
The Sweeney is Keeney! :)
Love going back in time to see shows like The Sweeney. Definitely good fun during those long and rainy days when there's nothing else to do. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Doc
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excellent entertainment from one of the best police series ever made very good action sequinces and acting especially from thaw and waterman but back up casts are also very good. Read more
Published on 18 May 2010 by Rodney Mitchell
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