Good Connery, Good
Added 5/20/2009
Big fan of Connery, so I was looking for some other films since he's "retired". This one was pretty good action/thriller with a twist at the end. However, as a movie, it's in the same category as other forgettable action/thriller movies.
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A Title Before its Time
Added 2/24/2009
Bombs are going off in London and the government seems helpless to resist ? When was this film made ? Too long ago and too shoddily to hold much interest for anyone other than Bond completists, but considering how many of them there are in the world, hopefully they all find their way to this filler. The premise is fine. Unfortunately, it doesn't even measure up either in looks or scripting to a half-decent episode of "Spooks". There seems to have been ambition behind the project. There's even a paperback novel which, sadly, this completist also owns. Where did this one come form ? Sometimes Connery lent his status to film projects in burgeoning film-makers he trusted, though he knew he would not emerge well. See "Sword of the Valiant" for example, or note the fact that his name enabled the financing of "Time Bandits" to take shape. Perhaps there was a loyalty factor involved here. Connery's peformance is fine - a Scandinavian with the customary Scottish accent, as Scandinaians do. He is focussed in the role without being dynamic, but then the role doesn't demand this. A Friday night T.V. crime flic if you take it at face value. As a probably-thought-lost must-have in the Connery lexicon, worth its few bucks many times over. Interesting side-note is that the pilot of the hijacked BOAC jet was Norman Bristow, an actual BOAC pilot, and in fact the face and voice of BOAC in all those commercials of the era when BOAC was BOAC and all that implied. Presumably, his only foray into acting, and not really a stretch as he jams on those brakes. Sean in a fur hat. Sean in nay hat is always worth a look. A curiosity. Be curious.
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In this 70s international thriller Sean's not the only heavy hitter on board -- Jerry Goldsmith scores and it's shot by Sven Nyqust. The pictures not bad -- Sean's temperament fits the bleak Scandinavian setting -- you can imagine him in the role of Martin Beck. (Although the cynical twist at the end does render his character a bit of a hothead.)
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An efficient Saturday night thriller
Added 1/17/2008
Caspar Wrede's Ransom (retitled The Terrorists in the USA) is an entertaining enough cat-and-mouse yarn from 1975 if you have an hour and a half to spare, helped immensely by a commanding performance by Sean Connery as the Scandinavian security chief having to deal with a hostage crisis and an airplane hijacking by Ian McShane's terrorist. There are some neat plot twists, Sven Nykvist's cinematography makes good use of the snowbound locations and there's a strong Jerry Goldsmith score that helps drive the film along nicely, although it is rather disconcerting to hear John Quentin speaking with Malcolm Terris' voice in a particularly noticeable bit of dubbing. All in all, an efficient Saturday night thriller that doesn't aim high but does deliver.
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A rare find
Added 12/4/2007
Decided to get the little unknown films where our favorite start, Sean Connery is involved. The Tterrorists is a rare find. Sean Connery plays the part of the head of security and has to get involved with terrorists demanding much in exchange for the hostages they are holding, a British Ambassador and his servants.
To make matters worse, the Ambassador has a heart condition. As the plot develops, we see Connery determined to make sure the terrorists do not get away with their demands. Connery soon finds out that not all is what it seems, for there are many involved in their own games. The end of the movie is rather interesting. We highly recommend this thriller, especially if you like Sean Connery as much as we do!
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