Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Leofwine_draca BRANNIGAN is an engaging fish-out-of-water cop thriller clearly modelled on DIRTY HARRY. A larger-than-life John Wayne plays the jaded American cop sent to London to bring down a crime lord, and an ensemble cast of familiar faces from the era either help or hinder him along the way. I thought this was a great little thriller, with plenty of action and suspense along the way, including shootings, assassination attempts, and even a car chase for good measure. It was directed by Douglas Hickox, of THEATRE OF BLOOD fame, and has a similarly gritty look. Judy Geeson plays Wayne's partner while the likes of John Vernon and Mel Ferrer are the bads. Watch out for Tony Robinson in a youthful comic cameo.

GUENOT PHILIPPE I will never say it enough. That's very surprising that the Duke finished his acting career with two crime flicks - except of course THE SHOOTIST. Crime flicks which were never his field. And he was pretty good, in the line of Dirty Harry scheme. I would have love to see him playing with Diana Rigg, as he was initially supposed to. But the most amusing scene here is the pub fist fight, just in the John Ford or Andy McLaglen tradition. Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, Ben Johnson or Harry Carey Jr were missing in this sequence. Without the Duke this sequence would have been totally useless. Good film, but not a masterpiece.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** John Wayne as Chicago cop Lt. James Brannigan is sent off to the UK to expedite Chigago hood Ben Larkin, John Vernon, who among his other crimes was responsible for the death of Bargginan's partner who he was trying to brake in. Now with Larkin about to be cuffed and sent back to Chicago with Brannigan escorting him back there he's kidnapped by a number of British hoods and held for as much as 1.3 million in ransom. The normal thing to do is let the hoods whack Larkin and save the state of Illinois the money to try him but instead the British police Scotland Yard as well as Let. Brannigan go all out to rescue Larkin from his captors which doesn't, in regards to Let. Brannigan, make no sense at all! The film gives Let. Brannigan this 25 year old partner British police Sergent Jennifer-no relation to the future British PM- Tatcher,Judy Greeson, to help the almost 70 year old Brannigan out who in fact risks his life throughout the film saving hers. There also Brannigan's boss in the London PD Commander Swann played by Richard Attenborough in a rare tough guy role where he's later involved is a massive bar brawl where he does, in working over the drunken bad guys, an even better job then the almost one foot taller and 50 pound heavier Let. Brannigan. As for the kidnapped Larkin his release is being negotiated by his crooked shyster lawyer Mel Fields, Mel Ferrer, who's about as slimy as they, shysters, get. whom you as well as his client Ben Larkin don't know until the very last minute who's side, the kidnappers or the kidnapped victim, he's really on.***SPPOILER*** Despite his advanced age and being way out of shape John Wayne is very effective in his role and even shows he still has it with the ladies with Jennifer falling heads over heels over him as well as a number of other young and sexy ladies in the cast. Wayne is also very effective in the fights he's in especially the aforementioned bar brawl as well as a sizzling car chase all through London that's one of the best, without the use computer enhancement, ever put on film.The fact that John Wayne not Clint Eastwood was offered the part of Inspector "Dirty Harry" Calahan and turned it down must have gotten to him in jut how successful the "Dirty Harry" series was to become. In fact in the movie "Brannigan" Wayne copies off the "Dirty Harry" sequel "Magnam Force" in its opening credits having Let. Brannigan's .38 Colt Diamondback police special compete with his name in the credits on the screen like Eastwood's .44 Magnam did with his in "Magnam Force". There's also the villain in the film John Vernon as Ben Larkin who in fact played Eastwood's rival the wimpy and totally gutless San Francisco mayor in the original "Dirty Harry".

utgard14 Tough Chicago cop Brannigan (John Wayne) goes to London to extradite an American criminal named Larkin (John Vernon) but the bad guy is seemingly kidnapped before Brannigan can get to him. That's not enough to deter our hero, though. He's determined to get his man, no matter how many British toes he has to step on to do so, including those of a stuffy police commander (Richard Attenborough).A fun 'fish out of water' movie for John Wayne; his second attempt to duplicate Clint Eastwood's success at moving from westerns to police thrillers. It's a better movie than Wayne's previous attempt at a Dirty Harry-style cop flick the year before, the underwhelming McQ. It moves quicker and there are some funny lines here and there. Plus everyone in the cast seems like they want to make this work, unlike McQ where nobody seemed that into it. Duke is clearly having a good time and appears more at ease with this mostly British cast than he did with many of his later films. Vets Attenborough, Vernon, and Mel Ferrer deliver as they usually do. Judy Geeson has a nice chemistry with Duke. Thankfully (given their age difference) the film never goes "there" beyond mild flirting. Lesley Anne Down plays a prostitute and Daniel Pilon is the hit man hired to kill Duke. It's not an exceptional film in any way but it is enjoyable, especially for Wayne fans who might like to see him in different surroundings than the western plateau or the battlefield.