Un detective empedernido en el escuadrón aéreo de la policía metropolitana de Londres. Basado en el programa de televisión británico de los años 70.Un detective empedernido en el escuadrón aéreo de la policía metropolitana de Londres. Basado en el programa de televisión británico de los años 70.Un detective empedernido en el escuadrón aéreo de la policía metropolitana de Londres. Basado en el programa de televisión británico de los años 70.
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Elenco
- Premios
- 5 nominaciones en total
- George Carter
- (as Ben Drew)
- Dirección
- Guionistas
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Opiniones destacadas
Opening scene was beyond stupid. The bit in the middle was daft as hell.
And the less said about the ending the better.
Great acting, just very poor script and the director should go back to film school.. (does a director not have any control??)
Note to writer/director.. Never give that kind of daft opening if you want to be taken seriously..
Or daft ending..
Or daft middle bit...
The Sweeney are The Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan Police, tasked with cracking down on violent crime and armed robberies. They're loud, cocky, and vicious and, if the cases we're shown are anything to go by, very, very bad at their job.
Regan (Winston) is head man and a law unto himself, his sidekick Carter (Drew) and the rest of his special ops team are housed in a swish crow's nest of Scotland Yard with all mod cons. While Winston and Drew have an unmistakable chemistry on screen they really didn't have much to work with. Drew delivers his lines painfully slow, as if inebriated but you have to give it to the guy, he's not bad when it comes to fisticuffs. The gung ho ways and abysmal record of their squad attracts the attention of Internal Affairs, who are just waiting for a reason to shut them down. The wait isn't very long.
England's capital is largely deserted for the duration, which again beggars belief. There's a monumental hot pursuit and shoot out on an almost empty Trafalgar Square with just enough passers by to be pushed violently to the ground by both the fleeing criminals and the cops themselves, by the third time, it was comically so. It would appear that The Sweeney have been trained at the Storm Trooper Shooting Range as London town is shot up in relentless gunfire but not one bullet reaches its target. Think Hot Fuzz not Miami Vice.
The plot is convoluted, the cases needlessly complicated and for the life of me I couldn't get excited about a Serbian Georgie Burgess as the bad guy. While Nick Love is renowned for his cockney gangster offerings, unfortunately this time round he didn't think to bring either a decent story or a coherent script to the table.
The Sweeney is somewhat enjoyable but it borders on parody far too often. It's outdated and overplayed with enough product placement have an accompanying catalog. It would have made a decent TV special but for a big screen outing it's a meh from me.
Alone it makes a good action movie with one or two good car chases and gunfights. The storyline was reasonable even though its the sort you would see in an episode of the original series. Although Ray Winstone does well for himself, his interpretation of Jack Regan is different to how John Thaw portrayed the character if it doesn't lack any background. The interpretation of Detective Chief Inspector Frank Haskins isn't as robust as it should have been and doesn't get much screen time. Instead, a completely new character is introduced and appearing to have more emphasis than the Haskins character. One thing the makers of the movie did was capture bird's eye views of London which one could argue was a bit unnecessary. Even though a lot of movies have it and I personally don't get offended by it at all, a lot of the profanity in the dialogue was also on the unnecessary side.
I like the original television series but I'm a much bigger fan of movies, particularly action movies which is why I enjoyed it. I can understand that a lot of people who were fans of the TV show may not find this much to their satisfaction. But as far as I'm concerned, I got what I wanted from it.
¿Sabías que…?
- TriviaThe presenters and production team from Top Gear assisted in planning and filming the car chase scene. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May were credited as stunt performers.
- ErroresDuring an arrest scene one of the characters says to the suspect: "You have the right to remain silent..." This is part of the Miranda used by United States law enforcement and would not be used in the UK. In Britain the caution that must be given at the time of an arrest begins with, "You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defense if you do not mention when questioned something that you later rely on in court..."
- Citas
[Carter chases an armed robber and, after grappling with him, slams him against a partition wall in an office. As the robber draws a knife, two arms suddenly punch through the wall and grab the robber by the neck. Cut to a shot of Regan on the other side of the wall]
DI Jack Regan: [menacingly] We're the Sweeney, shithead. You're nicked!
- ConexionesFeatured in Unforgettable: The Sweeney (2012)
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Sitio oficial
- Idiomas
- También se conoce como
- Thám Tử Tài Ba
- Locaciones de filmación
- Queenborough, Kent, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(car chase)
- Productoras
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Taquilla
- Presupuesto
- GBP 3,000,000 (estimado)
- Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 26,650
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- USD 20,321
- 3 mar 2013
- Total a nivel mundial
- USD 7,708,312
- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 52 minutos
- Color
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 2.35 : 1