What can I say? 2 hours of class! This is a film which pretty much tells it how it is. The gangster world is not glamour, it's not a world we should dream about being in.
This film is gritty and realistic, it's one of the best pictures ever to be released from the U.K.
Bob Hoskins is in terrific form here, so damn perfect. Helen Mirren is stunning, great actress and rather eye-catching!!!
Pierce Brosnan is hardly in the picture, he was unknown at the time. There are a few faces which you'll recognise, most of them appeared in famous British Television dramas!
The film setting is gritty and shows the real London underworld in the early Thatcher years.
The direction is confident as is the script, and by the end you'll realise that they had guts! The film score is wonderful, it's always in my head.
This film is class!
