The Long Good Friday (1980) Film Review

Alongside Get Carter and Performance, one of the greatest hard edged 70s British gangster films. Despite being hugely influential on more trite post Lock Stock fair, this is a hugely complicated screenplay, with massive, almost Shakespearean themes as a never better Bob Hoskings, goes through a proto-Uncut Gems nightmare. With deals he cant hang onto anymore than what he already has. Visions of a fading and rising Thatcherite UK merge into a fever dream - with a stunning soundtrack - as Hoskins and a superb Helen Mirren, realise too late, the Barbarians at the gate are more than they can handle.