Shadow Run (1998)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Geoffrey Reeve

Writer:

Desmond Lowden (writer)

Genre:

Crime

Tagline:

A hardened gangster plans to steal £100 million in 20 minutes... and take full advantage of the shadow run. All he has to fear is his partner.

Plot:

Haskell (Michael Caine) is assigned a job by his boss, the aristocratic Landon-Higgins (James Fox),...

Cast

Michael Caine	...	Haskell
James Fox	...	Landon-Higgins
Matthew Pochin	...	Joffrey
Rae Baker	...	Julie
Kenneth Colley	...	Larcombe
Christopher Cazenove	...	Melchior
Rupert Frazer	...	Maunder
Leslie Grantham	...	Liney
Tim Healy	...	Daltrey
Emma Reeve	...	Victoria
Katherine Reeve	...	Zee
Angela Douglas	...	Bridget
Maurice Thorogood	...	Walter
Richard Tuck	...	Morton
John Bray	...	Hallam

Runtime:

Australia:94 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Portugal:M/12 (video premiere) | Spain:13 | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Majestic Films & Television

Goofs:

Continuity: In one scene where Haskell talks on his car phone, he is wearing sunglasses, a lavender shirt, and a purple tie. After a brief cutaway, he is wearing eyeglasses, a dark blue shirt, and an orange tie (and while he had the earpiece up to his ear in the earlier shot, he now seems to be talking to a speaker-phone). Later on (that same day), he has returned to wearing the lavender shirt and purple tie.

Shadow Crawl

Sir Michael Caine, gives us another fine enthralling performance in a movie that is anything but. Caine is a ruthless gangster thief, with a particular habit of killing people for the slightest discrepancy. The plot is quite clever in as much as it is a 'how to' guide of how to rob an armoured car when your mobile phone has no signal. (thanks for the tips guys). However, the movie is let down by an appalling script, awful support cast and probably the most annoying ensemble of child actors since OLIVER. The film does not gel well either as one scene sees Caine kill an old friend for embezzling some money from him, and another of him killing a single mum hooker simply because she talks too much, yet in Caine's final scene he is with a little boy who can now attach him to a couple of armoured car robberies, but does he kill him? NO. in fact he gives him his gold cigar clipper. There is nothing in the script to show that Caine holds any particular bond with the lad, or any affection for anyone but himself, so why the inconsistency?. It is also a crime that James Fox is grossly underused with his fart-and-you'll-miss-him screen time. great lead role acting by Caine, but put this movie on the ever growing 'bad Michael Caine movie' pile