The Long Good Friday
 

Hadn't seen it for a while but picked it up on DVD recently. Still as entertaining as ever, the performances are spot on (although some of the characters seem a little cliched now- thank you very much Guy bloody Ritchie!) and the score is a synth gem. Love the ending

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Overrated gangster thriller, Hoskins gives a strong performance and the locationwork is impressive. Also, it succeeds in anticipating the Thatcherite entrepreneurialism of the 1980s, albeit, in a criminal form. However, the film remains entirely superficial, parading Hoskins' relationships with the mafia, big business, local politicians and the IRA, but never developing them in any depth.

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Yes, the film isn't quite the masterpiece it is sometimes made out to be and I agree that it plays out on a purely superficial level. Regardless, it's still a nifty little crime thriller in my opinion

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Nice theme song, Hoskins is pure gold, but the plot etc feels just like P.Gough said, a bit under developed.

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I haven't seen this flick since we ran it when it opened in the 80's. I'd love to see it again for my man Eddie Constantine.

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I'd rate it with the greatest gangster movies of all time and I'm surprised no one's agreeing with me. It's tight, tough and uncomplicated. I just sat watching it thinking "yeah I've had days like this."

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Of course it's a masterpiece! Hopkins is more than awesome (the last few minutes are among my all time favorites, the film itself is my favorite gangster film), and the film is lean, not underdeveloped! It's just doesn't bullshit, goes right to the point. The whole thing happens during one day, what do you want, childhood memories?

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I'm with Wostry. I think this is an extraordinarily powerful movie. The closing scene makes it, in my opinion: look at Hoskins as he realises what has happened.

I watched DANNY THE DOG fairly recently (possibly my favourite film of the year, if not nudged out of the running by BATMAN BEGINS), and Hoskins is just as powerful in that movie: he's essentially playing a very similar character. He's a vastly underrated actor who, for whatever reasons, very often found himself 'slumming it' in the 1980s and 1990s (SUPER MARIO BROS, anyone?). However, he was good in MONA LISA too: now that's another corker of a movie.

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I agree with you as regards Hoskins in The Long Good Friday Paul, but as for 'Unleashed' (Danny The Dog) I hated it, thought it was terrible.

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I recently picked this up at a clearing-out of old VHS tapes from a video place. I'm going to have to check it out. Hoskins is a solid actor, and this sounds like a good flick. Roger Ebert, in an old book of his I have FOUR STAR MOVIES, praises this film. This, and MONA LISA, also with Hoskins, I am going to have to check out, although I'm still looking for MONA LISA. Anyone seen it?

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Mona Lisa is excellent Zane, well worth checking out.

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I love both of these films but I think I prefer Mona Lisa, it just seems more powerful and the ending is brilliant.

Re: The Long Good Friday
 

Great movie!
Bob Hoskins gives an excellent performance.
Realistic, down to earth stuff...just look at his face at the ending of the movie...