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Old 12 June 2004, 09:52 PM
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Default Tonight 10:15pm BBC1 - RONIN

Remember the A8 car chase?

Great film.

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Old 12 June 2004, 09:58 PM
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Yup one of the great car chases
Old 12 June 2004, 10:15 PM
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Great car chase it may be, but that is one CRAP film....plot is so well hidden, a bloody St. Bernard couldn't find it! There are people in that film who should be ashamed of themselves, given how good they can be.
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Funny, i thought it was a really good film, DVD has deleted scenes, and alternate ending iirc

Plot was easy anyway
Old 12 June 2004, 10:19 PM
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Just came on to post this exact thing


I'm with Sonic BTW
Old 12 June 2004, 10:50 PM
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Blimey, just me then....better re-evaluate my Barry Norman skills. My life as a film critic now at an abrupt end.
Old 12 June 2004, 11:01 PM
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This is one of my favourte films!
Old 12 June 2004, 11:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Buckrogers
Remember the A8 car chase?

Great film.
S8 wasn't it?
Old 13 June 2004, 12:01 AM
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Yes it is an S8. Great film - always enjoy watching it. Car chases are fantastic, but it is also an intelligent thriller. Not the normal Hollywood crap - you've actually got to watch the film and work it out (a rarity these days). It has the look and feel of an older film - sort of 70s action/thriller. Terrific cast aswell which shows the pulling power of John Frankenheimer as director.

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Old 13 June 2004, 12:10 AM
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Good film, well liked it
Old 13 June 2004, 12:42 AM
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Very well made, great stunts and huge scenes, very well shot chase scenes and De Niro and Reno are always great, but watching it again, you do lose interest knowing the end is quite weak, it seems the writers ran out of steam and just plopped down this conclusion, and as you really don't care about what Seamus does or is going to do with the case, it is a bit anti-climatic, and why let Deirdre go when she is a terrorist?

Think if they had had more coffee at the storyboard meetings it could have been much better!

This must lead to a link about the best car chases?

Which I will do now....
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I always like the scene with De Niro & Sean Bean and the cup of coffee
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Originally Posted by 2000TLondon
and why let Deirdre go when she is a terrorist?
There's an alternate ending on the DVD. You know when De Niro comes out of the cafe and looks wistfully up that big flight of steps? Well just before that, there's a scene where Deirdre stood waiting for him in the road at the top and gets bundled into a van by a bunch of "clava'd up" blokes - presumably Seamus's colleagues.

More realistic ending but a bit depressing as you have to wonder what happens to her...

Iwan
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