9/8/2023 0 Comments Sas red notice![]() ![]() Characters smoke too, and alcohol is consumed on occasion. The leading roles are incredibly brave, and one in particular, Sophie ( Hannah John-Kamen), a doctor and hostage, is offered the chance of escape but stays to help the other passengers, putting her own safety at risk. Corruption and double crossing is prominent, with characters betraying their friends and their nation. The distinction between right and wrong is clear, though both sides are flawed. The language is incredibly strong, with one use of the "C" word, while there are multiple uses of the word "f-k," often used in an aggressive, threatening way. ![]() There is also a scene involving a sexual assault where a woman places her hand on her victim's crotch. Elderly women and young girls are also victims. The majority of victims are nameless villains and henchmen, but innocent people lose their lives too, with one specific scene, concerning a train conductor, being a particularly emotional watch. ![]() A multitude of different weapons are used, with death from bomb explosions, knives, guns, flamethrowers, grenades, and choking. Starring Sam Heughan as a former special forces soldier, the movie is set on a train traveling under the English Channel, which becomes hijacked by a group of terrorists led by Grace Lewis ( Ruby Rose). Less of a film than a TV special, SAS: Red Notice feels wholly un-cinematic at every turn – too clean, too dull and too cheap to ever match the boyish bravado of the book.Parents need to know that SAS: Red Notice is an entertaining action thriller that contains unrelenting - sometimes graphic - violence and strong language. In fact, it seems like everyone is trying their best here apart from director Magnus Martens – saddled with a corny script but still completely unable to add any sense of authenticity, humour, excitement or drama to an action film that actually has a decent setup. Sam Heughan plays a no-nonsense super soldier in ‘SAS: Red Notice’. Elsewhere, Serkis reliably steals every scene with his barking army sergeant schtick that seems weirdly borrowed from that character in King Kong. Ruby Rose gets a decent audition for a better film here too, channelling Lisbeth Salander from The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo to give her generic gun-nut baddie a punk edge that just about makes up for all the slow-motion squinting. A lot of credit has to go to Heughan (whose name is often in the mix for the next 007) for wringing as much charm out of the script as possible, and for making Buckingham seem sort of fun, even if he isn’t remotely interesting. Time for Buckingham’s one-man-army to go all John McClane and sneak around the top of train carriages, save all the hostages, and beat up a load of giant henchman with nothing but his wits and his fists.īuckingham is the kind of guy with two expressions – either smirking as he shoots people, or pulling Joey’s “smell the fart” face as he considers his next move – written as a comically unemotional hero for an audience who presumably miss the old Bond movies before Daniel Craig made him cry in the shower. ![]() To make things worse, Buckingham’s girlfriend ( Hannah John-Kamen) is on board the train, and the bomb threat interrupts their plans for a nice weekend in Paris. In fact, almost everyone in SAS: Red Notice is a potential double agent, and it falls to Buckingham to save the day single-handed when The Black Swan escape, hijack a Eurostar and threaten to blow a hole in the middle of the Channel.ĭuring a fight scene in new action thriller ‘SAS: Red Notice’. Andy Serkis is somewhere in the background too – chewing as much scenery as possible as an aggressively cockney commander who may or may not be a secret bad guy. He’s taking out gardeners/goons in Hampstead Heath because his squad has zeroed in on a terrorist cell known as The Black Swan – headed by Tom Wilkinson’s ( Batman Begins, The Lone Ranger) crazy millionaire and his psycho daughter, Grace ( Ruby Rose). “Those are primroses, not pansies!” quips SAS super soldier Tom Buckingham (Sam Heughan, best known for Outlander) as he snaps the neck of a security guard who was stupidly trying to get away with posing as a gardener. Read more: Ruby Rose: “I’ve been injured a bazillion times – I have a bionic neck!”.Attracting some decent acting talent and featuring a great idea for a claustrophobic action set-piece, SAS: Red Notice is so close to being fun that it’s a real shame to see it let down by a lousy script, lazy directing and enough army cliches to fill a dozen Call Of Duty cutscenes. Andy McNab’s Channel Tunnel thriller gets the TV-movie treatment and comes off like a bargain bin version of Die Hard, Mission: Impossible and James Bond all rolled into one. ![]()
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