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Matthew Vaughn should be in directors' jail for a while. It's his worst movie, even worse than Kingsman 2.
It's like Bulltet Train but even more boring and dull.
That was the worst film of last year for me. Genuinely awful from start to finish, didn't have a single noteworthy element to praise or enjoy.
Never seen this before, but remember it was talked about when it came out and I was still a wee lad. Given my other half's soft spot for shark movies, this one was bound to be watched at some point. Cheapo for sure, but hardly a bad effort imo.
Edit: I read about the real life events that inspired this film, one of the most frightening things I have ever read, I must say.
Before Scott Adkins, before Jason Statham, there was Gary Daniels flying the flag for blightly, as our home grown action star/martial artist.
The opening 20 minutes of Recoil is a ridiculously awesome escalation (to be fair, the rest of the film is punctuated by action set-pieces. But that opening 20 minutes really needs to be seen). What begins as a violent bank robbery, becomes a shootout on the street outside the bank, then cumulating with a car/bike chase. This is the sort of old skool action film, that can put any modern action film to shame. And it's all done in less than 100 minutes!
Found the DVD for a couple of quid in a charity shop recently.
Have fond memories watching this as a kid when it was on TV.
It's still great! Anthony Hopkins as Phillip Calvert, a British Treasury agent investigating the hijacking of cargo ships in the Irish sea. No apparent licence to kill but does a lot of it!
The film has some wonderfully harsh locations in the West Coast of Scotland and some impressive action. The Helicopter crash is pretty spectacular and some of the action is brutal. Calvert kills several baddies in cold blood!
Great entertainment, meant to be a series of films to rival 007, but poor performance at the box office put paid to that! Shame, as Hopkins is excellent as the loose cannon Calvert, and looks cool in his Naval uniform!
Great fun, I was thinking recently of upgrading my old dvd! Special mention must go to the great Robert Morley as his M like boss (bemoaning the lack of decent biscuits to go with his tea) and Angela Morley, aka Walter Stott who composed the wonderful theme music!
Yes mate, Roger Morley is great in it. Especially when Calvert gets him in on the action!
The theme music is indeed super cool! Had no idea Walter Stott lived as a female after 1972...same with composer Walter Carlos who later became Wendy Carlos (A Clockwork Orange and Tron)
C'mon Arrow, get a remastered Bluray version out!
Honestly its ok but not the best of the 80’s movies as many claim.. its kind of annoying but meh mostly harmless…. Trying to get over the whole fish out of water thing but as a historian the inaccuracy are very annoying .
Over all its fine
1. Jaws
2. The living daylights
3. Black bag
4. Running Scared
5. F/X
6. Jaws 3-D
7. A complete unknown
8. When harry met sally
9. Bill and ted’s excellent adventure
10. The Secret of my Success
11. Mystic pizza
12. superman 2025
13. Casino Royale 1954
14. F/X 2
15. Taking woodstock
16. A haunting in venice
17. Superstar
One thing I hadn't really paid attention to before though, was that the villains' backstory is never quite explained. We know Brian Cox and the Russian Oligarch are on in it together and stole $20m from the CIA which somehow made them loads of cash and depended upon the murder of Neski, the Russian politician, but it's all quite murky as to how. And then I watched the deleted scenes, and was surprised to see there's a deleted scene where Pamela Landy explains the whole thing: Neski wanted to sell off the Caspian Sea oil contracts to lots of different, reputable people- but when he was killed this plan was prevented, and the evil oligarch bought them all up with the $20m and made loads of unscrupulous cash.
Quite why this scene was deleted I'd like to know as it seems pretty essential! Probably a pacing thing, always seems to come down to that.
There's also an alternative ending which I'm really glad they ditched: the one they used was much punchier.
And it really kind of is quite shocking how much Quantum of Solace rips off its ending!
I saw this movie when it came out at a drive in as a kid, and I remember thinking it was very cool. Have not seen it since, but yesterday I ordered a Blu ray of it just because of your post. Thanks.