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The Long Good Friday - Criterion Collection | Year: 1982 Classification: Drama Directed: - John Mackenzie Actors/Actresses: - Bob Hoskins - Helen Mirren Harold's dilema This film possibly deserves to be in the one of the best gangster movies made club. If your collection includes Godfather 1&2, Scarface,Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction then this movie is for you. ( you sick person !) Filmed in London with advice from genuine East End Crims on how they would handle various situations, this film follows the last 36 hours of Harlod Shand as the provisional IRA decide to get even. The only problem is Harold does not know who is having a go at him or why. Don't expect fancy special effects etc, this is a movie that is made in the real world and hits the spot. I love the scene when Harold is walking through Heathrow Airport. Harold's right hand man Razors is just brilliant and the performance by Bob Hoskins as Harold is unforgetable. Some of the verbal is brilliant ! For sure this is one for the collection ! A gangster film of raging, headlong power. Until I saw Bob Hoskins in "The Long Good Friday," I thought the British were incapable of producing an actor who had the style and power of James Cagney. This movie was my introduction to the wonderful craft of Hoskins, and also--except for a couple of Masterpiece Theatre productions--to the wonderful work of Helen Mirren, here playing the upper-class moll to Hoskins's lower-class but extremely wealthy mob boss. Hoskins, anxious to go legit with a multi-billion-pound Thameside development deal, is suddenly bedeviled by acts of terrorism against his organization; in a jigsaw-puzzle style that leaves the audience as much in the dark as Hoskins, but which finally becomes plain with ferocious clarity, the identity and motives of Hoskins' attackers are revealed. "The Long Good Friday" is a marvel of good acting, witty dialogue and kinetic energy, helped by a propulsive music score and photography that manages to be both gritty and lyrical. The violence and language are appropriate to the theme, so those looking for a wholesome family film should look elsewhere. Watch for the very young Pierce Brosnan in a tiny but crucial role. The british answer to the Godfather The clever script allows to build a sollid story. Bob Hoskins surpasses all his performances, past, present or even future. He gave the best performance of his monumental career.<BR>The progressive tension around Hoskins literally overflows the screen and struggles us. That hopeless, that certainless of facing against an enemy of the IRA dimensions and the irreverent mood assumed by Hoskins in that unforgettable dialogue with his american partners lead to a smart and unexpecting ending.<BR>Helen Mirren , combines her talent and amazing beuty and Pierce Brossnan has a little cameo in the end of the movie.<BR>Under any circunstance you can avoid watching this brilliant and even underrated film of the eighties. <BR>A true gem. Buy The Long Good Friday at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on The Long Good Friday Search with the Priority Search Engine on The Long Good Friday This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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