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Sweeney 2
“They're back - tougher than ever!”
6.2 / 10• 1978• 1h 44m•NR• English
ActionCrimeDramaThriller
Storyline
The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.
Cast & Crew
John Thaw
Det. Insp. Jack Regan
Lead
Dennis Waterman
Det. Sgt. George Carter
Denholm Elliott
Ex-Det. Chief Superintendent Jupp
Nigel Hawthorne
Det. Chief Insp. Dilke
Ken Hutchison
Hill
Anna Gaël
Mrs Hill
Derrick O'Connor
Llewellyn
Georgina Hale
Switchboard Girl
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Tom Clegg's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Sweeney 2 is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
