Storyline
Based on the '70s UK TV show, The Sweeney is an action-packed British police thriller from the director of Football Factory. Jack Regan (Ray Winstone), a hardened cop who doesn’t play by the rules, is confronted with a criminal from his past. With sidekick George Carter (Ben Drew aka Plan B) they are put on the case of a jewellery store heist that ends in a killing. But is that killing really an execution in disguise? With pressure from his boss and the fact that Regan is having an affair with that boss’s wife, it’s not going to be easy for him to stay out of trouble.
Directors
Writers
Cast
Allan Corduner, Ray Winstone, Damian Lewis, Paul Anderson, Michael Wildman, Hayley Atwell, John Warnaby, Caroline Chikezie, Steven Waddington, Alan Ford, Steven Mackintosh, Lee Whitlock, Ben Drew, Allen Leech, Ronnie Fox, Kara Tointon, Kevin Michaels, Tayo Walker-Allen, Ed Skrein, Nick Nevern, Max Bennett, Dean Harrison, George Anton, Marina Niel, Joan Blackham, Zora Suleman, Josh Myers, Florence Brudenell-Bruce
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Reviews
75
A down-and-dirty genre picture that manages a couple of decent plot twists, a couple of passable car chases and two epic shoot-outs.
70
Don't look for The Sweeney to win any awards. It's not going to, not even close. But that doesn't stop it from being a briskly involving British crime entertainment of the old school. You've seen the type, and more than once, but the genre still has enough juice to take us for a ride.
60
Simon Dennis’s photography is glossy and crisp, and a lengthy foot chase — making excellent use of the National Gallery — is inventively choreographed. And if the villains are little more than fireplugs in balaclavas, the violence they provoke is satisfyingly vicious.
50
Somewhere in the laundry list of clichés, there is a movie here that we have already seen and forgotten.
50
The movie has a certain integrity and creates an interesting atmosphere, largely thanks to the soundtrack, of all things, which gives most moments a dreamy undertone.
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