
The New York Times
The Long Good Friday has a lot to recommend it, chiefly in the fine performances of Bob Hoskins... and Helen Mirren...
Full reviewIn the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organisation, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
The Long Good Friday has a lot to recommend it, chiefly in the fine performances of Bob Hoskins... and Helen Mirren...
Full review(Hoskins') Harold Shand is an exactingly poured, mixed and shaken molotov cocktail of hope and despair...
Full reviewAs a collage of glossy gangster conventions and one-liners, The Long Good Friday explodes with energy...
Full reviewHoskins is a seething ball of ambition and aggression; part strutting Napoleon, part Reggie Kray, while Mirren and Constantine offer customary sterling support.
Full reviewAlthough The Long Good Friday is firmly rooted in a very different era the film still feels fresh and uncompromisingly tough.
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