The Sweeny (2012)
I'm a big fan of the Sweeny, seen all of them, most of them more than once. There's no bad episodes and lots of brilliant ones. So you've got to wonder what they were thinking with this pile of shite, shite so bad even Ray Winston can't save it.
Of course London is like Disneyland now, all the crumbling Victoriana and the bomb sites surrounded by corrugated sheeting are long gone so it's not possible to create the same atmosphere as the series but even so you have to wonder if whoever wrote this had ever seen an episode. In fact it could just be any generic cop film script with the names changed to Carter and Reagan. I wonder if that isn't what happened. At one point Reagan is asked to hand over his 'badge and gun.' His badge? Where are we now, Dodge City? And the climax to the film takes place in a trailer park.. draw your own conclusions there.
The action scenes are risible, the characters do stupid things just to advance the plot - which is the same tired old shit about Internal Affairs pursuing a maverick cop who gets results. The romantic sub-plot with Reagan is lame and just slows the whole thing down even if you fast-forward through it. The bloke playing Carter looks and sounds like he's drugged-up.
Really it's a total insult to the genius of the writing, directing and characterisation of the original. All copies of this shit should be burnt, blown up and then the remains dumped in the sea.
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