The Sweeney (Blu-ray + DVD) R
Act like a criminal to catch a criminal.
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Blu-ray Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 2, 2013
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: Momentum
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ray Winstone, Ben Drew, Hayley Atwell, Steven Mackintosh, Paul Anderson, Alan Ford & Damian Lewis | |
Directed by | Nick Love | |
Edited by | James Herbert | |
Screenwriting by | John Hodge & Nick Love | |
Composition by | Lorne Balfe | |
Director of Photography: | Simon Dennis |
Entertainment Reviews:
[A] briskly involving British crime entertainment of the old school....THE SWEENEY benefits greatly from Ray Winstone's performance as Jack Regan...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2/4 --
This might just be a British thing that we don't understand - literally.
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San Francisco Chronicle
You'd be better off going out into the lobby for popcorn and a soda for the first hour.
East Bay Express
Rating: B --
The Sweeney as a film has a not-so-secret weapon in leading man Ray Winstone, who plays Jack Regan, head of the "Flying Squad."
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Assignment X
Rating: C- --
It goes nowhere, lost in the thick, indecipherable cockney accents and seemingly endless shootouts and car chases.
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The Patriot Ledger
[With] a kinetic visual style that imbues contemporary London with all the glossy swagger of a Michael Mann production, THE SWEENEY feels muscular and dynamic...
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 2/5 --
Love may have plonked his protagonists in the modern world but they still feel trapped in a long-gone era, when police brutality was commonplace and women knew their place.
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Eye for Film
Product Description:
Flying Squad detective Jack Regan (Ray Winstone) breaks all the rules while racing to stop a major bank heist, and also catch a former enemy who's determined to set the streets of London ablaze as the long-running British police drama makes the leap to the big screen.