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Long Good Friday

Bob Hoskins (Actor), Helen Mirren (Actor), John Mackenzie (Director) | Rated: R (Restricted) | Format: DVD
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Intricately plotted and smartly paced, this gangster saga clicks as whodunit, social satire and explosive thriller. The piece is crowned by Bob Hoskins' career-making turn as a London mobster courting respectability and Helen Mirren's subtly detailed performance as his upper-crust mistress. Cockney wiseguy Harold Shand is a would-be burgher whose domination of the city's underworld stems from his shrewdness as a mediator and his skill at harnessing political and economic clout. As Easter approaches, he's poised to launch an aggressive real estate development scheme along the depressed Thames waterfront when all hell breaks loose: a trusted lieutenant is brutally murdered, Shand's mother is nearly killed in a car bombing, one of his pubs is blown apart and the visiting American don crucial to the pending deal is quickly growing wary.

Barrie Keeffe's original screenplay keeps the viewer a step ahead of Shand, providing us with a telling but teasingly incomplete glimpse of the misstep by his underlings that has set chaos loose. At the same time, Keeffe underlines the bourgeois pretensions of the rough-hewn, barrel-chested Shand, how the elegant Victoria (Mirren) helps serve those ambitions and the myriad parallels between Shand's minions and the local politicians and police only too willing to join in his scheme. Tart, funny dialogue and alternately playful and pungent Eastertide imagery complete Keeffe's shrewd design--two key scenes, in a meat locker and a warehouse, invoke the Crucifixion itself.

Even with lesser performances, the script and John Mackenzie's solid direction would make The Long Good Friday a keeper but Hoskins's explosive portrait of Shand and his descent toward brutal revenge elevates the film into the very front rank, earning admiring comparisons to TheGodfather, Scarface, GoodFellas and other classics of that genre. --Sam Sutherland

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5.0 out of 5 stars Must Have for Film Collectors Jun 15 2009
By C. Clarke
Format:DVD
This film is a forgotten GEM. Helen Mirrren and Bob Hoskins have a great chemistry, the story well written and Pierce Brosnan in a non-speaking part!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The british answer to the Godfather May 3 2004
By Hiram Gomez Pardo
Format:DVD
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.
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.
Helen Mirren , combines her talent and amazing beuty and Pierce Brossnan has a little cameo in the end of the movie.
Under any circunstance you can avoid watching this brilliant and even underrated film of the eighties.
A true gem.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Francis Monkman Mar 21 2004
By Raymond F. Gillis
Format:DVD
This is a fine film...tough and complicated. I'd rate it far superior to any American gangster film. It features a driving and under rated soundtrack from Francis Monkman. The acting is, of course, first rate.
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2.0 out of 5 stars A Long Goodbye to Britain
After watching the extras interview with Hoskins and the director, Mackenzie, I finally realized that this film is intended to be an allegory of Britain's alleged decline under... Read more
Published on April 5 2004
5.0 out of 5 stars STILL "EXPLOSIVE" AFTER 24 YEARS!
The second best ever Brit gangster movie is a brilliant energy-filled piece. Ritchie's "Lock, Stock... Read more
Published on Mar 20 2004 by Shashank Tripathi
5.0 out of 5 stars Great mobster flick!!! Bob Hoskins rules!!! Five Stars A+
This great British mobster flick is on of the very best, on par with The Godfather and Goodfellas!!! Read more
Published on Dec 29 2003 by Jason P. Pumphrey
5.0 out of 5 stars A briliant film
This is a classical tragedy turned inside-out: it even follows the classical unities of time, place, and action. Read more
Published on Dec 9 2003
5.0 out of 5 stars As good as film noir gets
For the Americans unfamiliar with cockney slang:

grass: (n.) informant, snitch; (v.) to inform, to snitch
agro: agravation, trouble
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Published on July 4 2003 by Robin Wolfson
3.0 out of 5 stars Good Gangster Flick
I don't know this for sure, but the Criterion edition of The Long Good Friday is probably the only halfway decent edition of the film available. Read more
Published on Dec 11 2001 by "jones5000"
4.0 out of 5 stars Bryan Marshall?
I appeared in a production with Bryan Marshall when I was six years old, and I couldn't even remember what he looked like until I watched this. Read more
Published on Nov 18 2001 by Laura
5.0 out of 5 stars Gangster Film of the Century ?
Quite simply this film has everything. Bob Hoskins is amazingly good, as are the rest of the cast. The script is gripping and the directing builds the film to its brilliant finale.
Published on Nov 17 2001 by Bob Hoskins
5.0 out of 5 stars "The Mafia? Ha! I'll s**t 'em!"
The prophetic words of Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) a small man with big ideas to revolutionise London's docklands, with a little help and investment from the Mafia. Read more
Published on Oct 15 2001 by Mr. S. A. Lukacs
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic British gangster Noir
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Published on Jun 14 2001 by Charlie Rawlins
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