In this crime drama based on the 1970s TV series, Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast), Damien Lewis (TV's Homeland) and Ben...
In this crime drama based on the 1970s TV series, Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast), Damien Lewis (TV's Homeland) and Ben Drew (Brit rapper 'Plan B') star as part of an elite police unit. Winstone is Regan - a hard-assed Flying Squad detective with an unconventional approach to coppering, on a personal mission to take an old nemesis off the streets. But with bureaucracy and downsizing getting in the way of his particular brand of law enforcement, will Regan get his man before the changing police force gets him?
A play on Sweeney Todd, the title derives from the cockney rhyming-slang nickname for the Flying Squad, a branch of London’s Metropolitan Police first set up in the 1920s to tackle armed robbery and violent crime.
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44 %63 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
44 %6,485 reviewsAudience score rating
"Much of the action is routine, although the central setpiece, chasing masked criminals through London's Trafalgar Square and National Gallery, is a praiseworthy highlight."
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Variety
Variety"There's not much more we could ask for in a contempo police procedural - except maybe subtitles to overcome the heavy, dense cockney accents."
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Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile"Might just be the guiltiest of guilty pleasures."
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Total Film
Total Film"It's Winstone who keeps 'The Sweeney' on the right side of duff."
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Time Out
Time Out"Ray Winstone is well cast, but that's about the only thing this remake gets right."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Sweeney? Pony, more like."
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Little White Lies
Little White Lies"An infantile cops-and-robbers fantasy."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"The action's arresting but the dialogue's not much cop in this well-played and enjoyable hardboiled British police thriller."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineThe Sweeney | Details
- Rating
- MA15+, for violence and language throughout and some sexual content
- Runtime
- 111
- Genre
- Action, Drama
- Country of origin
- UK
