Love stages the action with a panache that belies the film's relatively modest budget and the big-set piece scenes... have an exhilarating energy and punch that British crime movies rarely deliver.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 12, 2020

Its slight and simplistic narrative can't escape feeling like an overlong episode from your pick of a plethora of past and current like-minded television series.

| Aug 7, 2019

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."

| Original Score: B | Mar 1, 2019

Likely to be met with a mixture of laughter and audible groans amongst cinemagoers.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2018

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 23, 2017

It goes nowhere, lost in the thick, indecipherable cockney accents and seemingly endless shootouts and car chases.

| Original Score: C- | May 13, 2013

You'd be better off going out into the lobby for popcorn and a soda for the first hour.

Full Review | Mar 7, 2013

Pulpy Brit actioner for die-hard fans of Ray Winstone, whose close-to-camp turn as '70s 온라인카지노추천 hero Jack Regan isn't enough to warrant a booking.

| Mar 5, 2013

Let's not waste each other's time. You already know whether this sounds like the kind of top bloke you'd fancy having a pint with. If so, The Sweeney is your film.

| Mar 4, 2013

The film is just stylized enough to register as above average, but on the whole it's pretty forgettable - the kind of film you describe with a noncommittal "interesting," while walking out of the theater.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.5/10 | Mar 2, 2013

This British film's coppers are all anachronisms as are the filmmakers' attitudes toward their anti-heroes and female characters.

| Original Score: 4 | Mar 1, 2013

If you watched any of the dozens of gritty BBC crime dramas that have reached our shores over the last decade, The Sweeney looks and feels like a bigger-budgeted version of those productions.

| Mar 1, 2013

[It] feels a lot like an American-made cop movie circa 1990.

| Mar 1, 2013

This throwback to 1970s cops and robbers movies had me 'nicked.'

| Original Score: B plus | Mar 1, 2013

This is Winstone's show and it's a perfect showcase for his bluff, easygoing machismo. He was born to play this lovable scoundrel, with an emphasis on his rogue elements.

| Mar 1, 2013

Based on a '70s British program, this is a bombastic effort that, while not successful, is still as bracing as a cold pint.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2013

Maybe it worked in the '70s; it's too worn to work these days. Ray Winstone needs to find better rocks to chew on.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 1, 2013

The movie blithely repeats most of the clichés of the American badass-cop flick, only in impenetrable Cockney.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 1, 2013

This might just be a British thing that we don't understand - literally.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 28, 2013

Mr. Winstone chews on this Cockney cops-and-robbers caper with foulmouthed glee.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 28, 2013