The Sweeney
Tearing up the streets of London, THE SWEENEY is a stylish, exhilarating action thriller proving sometimes you have to act like a criminal to catch a criminal. Armed and dangerous, the Sweeney Flying Squad are old school crime fighters enforcing the law. Led by legendary detective Jack Regan (Ray Winstone) and his loyal partner George Carter (Ben Drew), they have their own unique way of operating and always get results. With a bank heist in progress and his old enemy making a reappearance on the London crime scene, Regan will do whatever it takes to get the job done, even defying orders from his no-nonsense boss (Damian Lewis).
- Director
- Nick Love
- Writers
- Nick Love, John Hodge
- Actors
- Ray Winstone, Damian Lewis, Hayley Atwell, Ben Drew
- Genre
- Action and Adventure
- Run Time
- 1 hour 52 minutes
Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
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Mr. Winstone chews on this Cockney cops-and-robbers caper with foulmouthed glee.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 02.28.2013 -
A briskly involving British crime entertainment of the old school. You've seen the type, and more than once, but the genre still has enough juice to take us for a ride.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times, 02.28.2013 -
[It] feels a lot like an American-made cop movie circa 1990.
Pete Vonder Haar, Village Voice, 03.01.2013 -
This might just be a British thing that we don't understand - literally.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 02.28.2013
