I'm old enough to remember the Thaw/Waterman TV series and my daughter is way too young but she's a fan of Plan B and there wasn't much else we fancied watching, so we gave this a go.
We quite enjoyed it. Our toes curled a bit in the Ray Winstone sex scenes and we giggled at the chubby middle aged Regan and his team chasing after the automatic weapon wielding gang with their little handguns ... and we raised our eyebrows at the overweight heavy smoking, heavy drinking detective not even slightly out of breath after running a mile, up and down stairs and through buildings .... so quite a lot of belief had to be suspended in order to watch this film. But once you got past all that, as a bit of escapist entertainment it wasn't half bad and although the plot was thin and the believability factor strained to the max, the performances were good and it definitely had its moments.
Not the worst film I've ever seen by a long road and nowhere near as bad as some of the reviews on here would have you believe.
We quite enjoyed it. Our toes curled a bit in the Ray Winstone sex scenes and we giggled at the chubby middle aged Regan and his team chasing after the automatic weapon wielding gang with their little handguns ... and we raised our eyebrows at the overweight heavy smoking, heavy drinking detective not even slightly out of breath after running a mile, up and down stairs and through buildings .... so quite a lot of belief had to be suspended in order to watch this film. But once you got past all that, as a bit of escapist entertainment it wasn't half bad and although the plot was thin and the believability factor strained to the max, the performances were good and it definitely had its moments.
Not the worst film I've ever seen by a long road and nowhere near as bad as some of the reviews on here would have you believe.