The Long Good Friday (DVD)

The Long Good Friday (1979) starring Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren. British mobster Hoskins is putting together the biggest deal of his life when things start to go wrong. Close associates are killed. Bombs destroy first a car, then a restaurant he owns. Hoskins is under attack, but it takes him most of the movie to figure out where the attack is coming from. When he does figure it out, he decides to fight back, and it is not until the film's final scene that he realizes how heavily the odds are stacked against him. This is a great little gangster movie. Unfortunately, this DVD lacks the all-important (to me) English subtitles which would allow me to understand all the various British accents. On the bonus side: A couple of brief scenes by a very young Pierce Brosnan as an Irish thug. Grade: A-