Reviews

Yes, we get it; he's a no nonsense Englishman and will be damned he's going to submit to the contrary traditions of the Japanese.

Terrified in a foreign land? Not him, the great bold Englishman! He'll question ever illogical sacrifice, fight his way through the intrigues of the dastardly Portuguese, and with good old plain English straight-talking he'll shake the cobwebs from the rigid politics of feudal Japan.

Well done, sir. WELL DONE SIR I SAY! Rule Britannia and Rule Cliche.

And we can add to this the ludicrous overacting of the main character, which were he not a Brit I would put down to parody as opposed to jingoism.

The opening ten minutes are dedicated to telling us, to the background of a very annoying parody of Irish traditional music, that the two 'saints' are really, really Irish. They lark around. They swear. They fight at work, sometimes even with girls!

And then the Russian mobsters come into the bar, and of course two Irish pranksters just have a joke by setting them on fire. It's just Jack the lad stuff and no one would see this as anything more than the jovial Irish being jovially Irish.

Then a toilet gets dropped on a mobster's head, then the most annoying police detective arrives on the scene, then even the usually spectacular Willem Dafoe fails to save the film.

(I should add that I didn't know the two guys were meant to be Irish given their accents were so bad).

And then I put it off.

Oh Troy Duffy you really hit the mark here. The Irish-American people must have died a little bit inside when this garbage was released. .

I've just watched this film for the first time since the cinema, when I believed it was pretty decent if not fabulous.

I now believe it's better than I thought (and this is nothing to do with my awe for the Austrian Oak in all his guises). I found it amusing, the right length, to the point, and at times very profound. Moreover it wasn't overburdened with interminable action scenes without getting to know the characters first, or multiple endings (as in some new scripts just when the baddie dies, a 'profound' moment occurs and another's turns up for another half hour of the same).

Stunned at the bad press this film received. I think, and I hope, that these opinions will change over time.

Crom!

Just started this and almost being put off. Does the editor know that this Toy Silver is a monotonous boring weirdo? Cut cut cut.

Remainder of review to follow.

It's hard to avoid the cliche 'genius' when describing Norsemen.

Through seemingly ludicrous, over-contemplative characters, Norsemen questions how we view medieval Europe in the present. It's so original it even sees fit to mock cliched figures of speech, and is both finely, intelligently acted, and well scripted.

The most impressive comedy I've seen in a long long time. It's criminal that the fourth series was cancelled.

Magnificent, breathtaking, perfect. Score, cinematography, are masterful, and characters are flawless mix of style, ambiguity, and selfish indifference amid the all-or-nothing of the US Civil War.

The best Western ever filmed, and my personal choice for the best film ever made. Spectacular.

Police spoofs begin and end with Naked Gun. So too does the art of deadpan. Lesley Nielsen's performance will never be bettered for as long as humans try to make each other laugh.

In short, I love it.

Thank you for the memories, Lesley.