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Type of bind: DVD
EAN num: 5014293129459
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Sale Popularity Level: 80442
Theatrical Release Date: January 12, 1983
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Although an early eighties film, and the special effects are of that time period, it gives you an action packed look at an elite SAS operation. A great film for military buffs.
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I saw this movie on cable during the mid-late'80s, haven't seen it since then. Totally kick a**!!. Please,please, pretty please release to region 1 dvd.
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This film isn't bad in a lot of parts - the opening is great, and scenes like when a team takes down the flat (apartment) by placing charges against the wall in the adjacent flat were terrific. It also shows a lot of the SAS training going on.
The film does drag in some parts.
The US Army Ranger and the German GSG-9 characters were poorly portrayed - no Ranger would have that sort of long hair or be that unprofessional. But, hey, the film is about the SAS, not anybody else. Those two could have been left out.
Overall, pretty good action flick that reminds of earlier times, earlier terrorism, etc....Worth watching...
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Based on the book THE TIPTOE BOYS by James Follett(under the pseudonym George Markstein), this movie adaptation works on many levels. If you like movies chock full of military action and anti-terror ops done realistically without Jerry Bruckheimer-style slowmo and weepie music when some terrorist gets creamed, this is for you - straight and to the point! Even 25 years on, this movie is still as thrilling, heart pounding and relevant as ever.
In the movie, SAS officer Peter Skellern goes undercover into the People's Lobby, a far-left wing peacenik anti-nuclear organisation to investigate possible terrorist infiltration - and gets close to the group's leader Frankie Leith(well played by Judy Davis) to gather intel. Trouble is, insiders are watching him and when the group launch their attack on the US Ambassador's Residence and threaten to detonate a nuke in Scotland in the name of peace(!!??!! shows how hypocritical such radical organisations are at times when they let themselves get manipulated by extremists!!) and as if that wasn't bad enough, his wife and child are taken hostage. Watch out for Ingrid Pitt(WHERE EAGLES DARE) here, playing a cold-blooded terrorist with plenty of energy! The fight between her and Skellern's wife in front of her baby is just priceless, adding to the tension.
This movie would never be shot yesterday - if it was, by the likes of Bruckheimer or Tamahori, the politically-correct radicals would be the good guys, the Brits the bad guys and the Americans would be the heroes - and you'd get a Nashville-written corporate cheese country ballad by the likes of Martina McBride or Faith Hill at the end credits as opposed to Roy Budd's pulse-pounding action soundtrack here! Watch out as well for the scene where the American military officers are discussing tactics for world peace with Frankie and generally telling her that terrorism on behalf of the 'common people' is unjustified, almost reducing the scumbag to a wreck! Genius!
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This is one of the better movies made regarding the take down of a building in a hostage situation. The last twenty minutes are worth the price of the movie. Super job of showing what highly trained Soldiers can do. Highly encourage others to see this movie.
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