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The Anderson Tapes is an excellent heist film directed by Sidney Lumet. Sean Connery stars as a recently released thief who decides to rob his girlfriends swanky apartment block, some great performances and an early appearance from Chris Walken along with a tight snappy script make this one fine film. And another nail in the coffin of the Sean-can't-act argument. Be warned the Quincy Jones soundtrack veers from pretty good to ruddy awful.


Wolverine next, well I'm calling it that as it's proper name is stupid and frankly the film is pretty stupid too. The action is ok I guess but the plot is dumb,the script is perfunctory and it tries to cram heaps of characters in regardless of common sense - ho hum. Liev Schrieber and Danny Huston were good though and Jackman does his usual.

The Offence - another Lumet-directed Sean Connery film - is another classic and IMO criminally underrated. This, however, is a much darker, more intense film than The Anderson Tapes to say the least. Connery plays, brilliantly, a burnt out police detective who murders a suspect in a child molestation case played by Ian Bannen. The film is peppered with flashbacks and some disturbing imagery as he descends into his own memories. I can't think of another film of such quality with two Scotsmen in the leading roles apart from maybe The Hill ( also directed by Lumet )