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Los Palmas 7

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29,908 posts

246 months

Thursday 2nd July 2009
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A kind of "28 Days Later" meets "Mad Max", only without any of the redeeming features of either of those films. "From the makers of Dog Soldiers and The Descent" - so I expected good things.

I didn't get good things.

Dire.

The bit that did it for me: The fact that a Bentley Continental GT couldn't outrun an old Rover SD1.

Avoid.

Racefan_uk

2,935 posts

272 months

Thursday 2nd July 2009
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Actually, I found it worth it just to stare at Rhona for an hour or so...



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Edited by Racefan_uk on Thursday 2nd July 18:24

FM

5,816 posts

236 months

Thursday 2nd July 2009
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An old V8 jam sandwhich ...driving



Edited by FM on Thursday 2nd July 19:31

Hairspray

6,225 posts

223 months

Thursday 2nd July 2009
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I love this movie. I don't know why, I just do. I'm not normally one for action, but there are savages, a car chase, guns, explosions, and old train, a castle and Scotland gets shut off from the rest of the world wink. What more could you want?!

Romanymagic

3,298 posts

235 months

Thursday 2nd July 2009
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Los Palmas 7 said:
A kind of "28 Days Later" meets "Mad Max", only without any of the redeeming features of either of those films. "From the makers of Dog Soldiers and The Descent" - so I expected good things.

I didn't get good things.

Dire.

The bit that did it for me: The fact that a Bentley Continental GT couldn't outrun an old Rover SD1.

Avoid.
Quite liked the film, suitably quirky and lots of homages to various 80's sci-fi/fantasy and taken in a certain context i.e. nonsense but fun film is quite good. I agree on the Bentley against the SD1, a quick scan of the interweb reveals various 0-60 times for both vehicles, so taking a mean average, the Bentley would do 0 to 60 in 4.5 seconds and the SD1 around 8 odd seconds. However when they meet on the road they are both already moving, however even then I agree the Bentlwy would out perform the SD1. Perhaps if they "Scots" had grabbed themselves an M5 or similar perhaps it would have gelled better.

Plus seeing Sean Pertwee grilled was in a bizarre way quite funny! biggrin

Stu_VTS

84 posts

203 months

Friday 3rd July 2009
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I watched this actually. In the films defence i thought the same about the Bentley but the second time i watch it the Solider lad says something like 'floor it, lets outrun it'

and the bint replies 'no, we cant keep running'

and she then sticks close trying to get it to crash.

Parsnip

3,170 posts

204 months

Friday 3rd July 2009
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It is funny in a "this film is really crap" kind of way.

I assume it was made a bit tongue in cheek - at least i hope it was.