Sleepers
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Movie Reviews of Sleepers
Movie Review: Terrific
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't own the dvd (yet), but I have a battered old VHS from when the series aired on American tv. This is such a wonderful program, with a beautiful score by Graeme Revell that can be haunting or funny. The miniseries is also haunting and funny. An old vault is discovered in the depths of KGB headquarters that seems to contain records of a program to plant moles in England. The head of the program is locked in an insane asylum and no one can get him to talk. The idea of rogue agents who have been lost for 20 years understandably provokes panic among the Russian top brass, and Joanna Kanska's character is despatched to reel them in, supported by a hapless assistant and an ambassador who loves football (he means soccer). The sleepers, who have got themselves British lives, think no way am I going back to Moscow, & go on the run, with plenty of funny moments. Anyone who remembers all the budgetary complaints from Deputy Chief Peele in Sandbaggers will laugh hysterically when the SIS chief chastises his subordinate for eating at MacDonald's on company money. (The British & Americans start following the Russians around to find out what they're doing as the Russians follow the sleepers.) All in all, some of the best of British television.Movie Review: Not Enough Adjectives
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a good day. I was hunting for something else, as we all do, at another to be unnamed site selling DVDs, when I saw the listing for British TV Series. Suddenly this show flashed back into my brain. Well sort of. You see I have been struggling to remember the name of this series for years. We have all experienced this phenomenon. Frustrating. Quizzing people. Combing the Interwebs. NOTHING.
Well long story short, one WikiGoo search later, I finally found the name and now the DVD. Hurray!
I saw this when it first came out. It was excellent. The plot. The actors. Havers and Clarke are great foils for each other. The sophisticated Havers and the working man Clarke. It has been on my mental wish list, though I could not remember the name, for years.
I highly recommend this series. If you enjoy good British action/comedy/drama you will enjoy this. And do not worry the accents will not do you in.
I only wish my mental processes would have been better at remembering the name. I also got stymied by the Kevin Bacon movie by the same name.
Please get this one you will not be disappointed.
- Brain empties a section of storage capacity with a sigh
Movie Review: To be or Not to be...a Secret Agent Man.
Summary: 5 Stars
Like the earlier reviewer, I have waited a long time for this terrific BBC miniseries to come to DVD. It's a very interesting story of two men who were placed by the KGB in Britain as (possible) spies. Their instructions: Melt into the English population as if they were natives. And this they do. They are forgotten. And when they have become entirely British...indeed one of the men is now married with children...they get
an urgent call on their antique Russian radio to "reactivate" as spies.
Panic, panic, panic...as the two men who are friends, try to run from the
Soviet spy machine. They are everything but willing to have anything to do with the Soviets. And one of the persons after them is a beautiful Russian agent. A lot of fun and satire. Don't miss it.
Movie Review: No Beatles, but still wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a pity that "The Long and Winding Road" had to be removed from the penultimate scene for the DVD release, but otherwise this classic show is nearly perfect. Both funny and moving, brilliantly written and beautifully acted, this is one of my all-time favorites, and I'm a huge fan of British TV. Despite being somewhat dated, it still very much holds up, even with repeated viewings. David Calder's performance is particularly memorable: "I'm a Soviet spy workin' the west, honey. Whaddya want I should wear, a big fur hat and a 'I Love Leningrad' T-shirt?" Don't skip the closing credits of the final episode, or you'll miss the last word on many of the characters....Movie Review: Sleeper agents--a threat to the West?
Summary: 5 Stars
I am almost embarrassed to join the queue of praise for this . . . well, sleeper of a series. Yet since it is virtually the only sensible or entertaining treatment of this subject ever produced for either the silver or the home screen, it needs all the praise it can get. Truth may be stranger than fiction, but it's seldom as funny. It's certainly not as funny as "Sleepers."
Should the BBC ever produce a sequel to "Sleepers," I hope that its stars--Warren Clarke, Nigel Havers, and David Calder--will still be around and be able to assume their old parts. Perhaps the sequel could be entitled "Sleepers II: We're Doing It for the Children."