The consensus reads, "Michael Caine shows up to collect a paycheck, and so does everyone else in this rote, middling remake. Although he is not credited as such in the film, Caine has been acknowledged in retrospect as a co-producer.

Originally announced in 1997, Tarsem Singh and Samuel Bayer were considered to direct the film before Stephen Kay signed on, with David McKenna writing the script. Little idea what this would be going into it, other than it was the basis for one of Michael Caine's earlier - and apparently iconic - film roles. He might be booted out of the rackets forever, and he might have to look over his shoulder for the rest of his life.Hodges tried to rehearse the racecourse scene between Caine and Hendry in their hotel the night before shooting, but "Hendry's drunken and resentful state forced Hodges to abandon [the] attempt". Beechcroft stood derelict for many years and was finally demolished in December 2008, [41] despite a campaign to preserve it as a tourist attraction. Pretty much everyone Jack encounters is a filthy, smegging, lying, smegging liar and it's pretty satisfying when the parties responsible for Frank's murder get their comeuppance. not bad, but very much of its time, and I don't think I could have followed the plot if I hadn't read the book. The film was nominated for Worst Actor ( Sylvester Stallone) and Worst Remake or Sequel at the 21st Golden Raspberry Awards in 2000.

Jack confronts Kinnear, who says that he only told Paice to get the disc back from Ritchie, not kill him, and that Paice and Brumby committed the murder; Jack lets Kinnear live. And the book is very British, and very old (1970), so there are a lot of references like "a crooner in a John Collier suit was trying to sound like Vince Hall" that really told me nothing. It’s very beautifully done and we get a sense of the working class kid taking chances with himself, defying his family, going to art school and blossoming. I used to think, Christ, what a bloody idiot thing to do, start shacking up with the boss’s wife when you’re on such a good number and then I used to think about the things Aubrey could do to make me act like a bloody idiot.Hard-edged late 1960s crime drama following London gangster Jack's frenetic investigation into his brother's death 'up North'. At this time Klinger's friend Robert Littman had been appointed head of MGM Europe and so Klinger took his proposal to him. Violent and morally complex, the action plays as character study to a man who is on the edge of losing his humanity. Richard Weaver in Films and Filming praised the realism of the film, describing it as "crime at its most blatant", [89] [92] while George Melly writing in The Observer confessed to vicarious enjoyment of it, but admitted it was "like a bottle of neat gin swallowed before breakfast.