Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

2freensel I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Robert J. Maxwell Sent to London to bring back an American fugitive, tough Lt. John Wayne constantly runs afoul of municipal sensibilities. Scotland Yard, in the person of Richard Attenborough, takes him to breakfast at a fancy men's club. Wayne: I'll have a couple of strips of fried bacon, two eggs over easy, and a short stack.Sir Dickie: I think what the lieutenant means is that he'll have three rashers of bacon, two eggs fried equally on both sides, and a few pancakes.The narrative is a bit tortuous and I won't go into the difficulty Wayne has in recapuring the now-at-large fugitive except to say that none of the expected action scenes are missing and that, in the course of being executed, they take us on a grand tour -- the changing of the guards, a high speed pursuit across Tower Bridge, a barroom brawl, and a suspenseful episode on Picadilly Circus. Wayne is his cheerful and sarcastic self throughout, even when the goons try to blow him up on the toilet. There's nothing very original about it, but it's an entertaining and diverting flick.

GUENOT PHILIPPE I will never say it enough. That's very surprising that the Duke finished his acting career with two crime flicks - except of course THE SHOOTIST. Crime flicks which were never his field. And he was pretty good, in the line of Dirty Harry scheme. I would have love to see him playing with Diana Rigg, as he was initially supposed to. But the most amusing scene here is the pub fist fight, just in the John Ford or Andy McLaglen tradition. Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen, Ben Johnson or Harry Carey Jr were missing in this sequence. Without the Duke this sequence would have been totally useless. Good film, but not a masterpiece.

Wizard-8 Several years prior to this movie, John Wayne turned down the tough cop movie "Dirty Harry", which turned out to be a big hit. He must have regretted that decision, because several years later he put aside his cowboy hat and starred in two tough cop movies, "McQ" and this movie. Neither movie was a big success with critics or at the box office. I don't remember "McQ" that much, so I'll stick with critiquing "Brannigan" Certainly, the premise of the movie - tough American cop Wayne in jolly old England - did have great possibilities. Indeed, the finished movie does have some genuinely amusing moments, and Wayne still had the stuff (though not as much as in past movies due to his advancing age and his expanding waistline). However, the central story is kind of a bore. The kidnapping plot is pretty thin, resulting in near- desperateness by the screenwriters to pad things out to an acceptable running time. Also, there is not much in the way of action. Indeed, Wayne's character is less of a take-charge kind of guy than other Wayne roles in other movies. Fans of the Duke will probably enjoy this movie all the same despite its shortcomings, though I think even they will admit that this is far from Wayne's greatest movies.

Theo Robertson A lot of comments here consider that BRANNIGAN would have been a better film if Clint Eastwood had been cast instead of John Wayne . You can see the thinking behind this as the opening scene has Big John kick a door open while grinning " knock knock " lulling the audience in to thinking they're going to be watching anti-heroism in action rather than good guys versus bad guys . As the story pans out we're treated to a trans-Atlantic tale of a street wise American cop trying to solve the problems of stiff upper lip British cops and one can't help thinking John Thaw might have better cast You see this movie has a feel very much like an episode of THE SWEENEY . It has a contrast between light hearted comic scenes and bleak violence seen in the legendary British show , but where as BRANNIGAN plays up to the comic scenes such as the punch up in the pub THE SWEENEY would have had slightly more sophisticated dialogue driven humour to it . But there's more to the film than this and THE SWEENEY aspects has extends to the likes of walk on parts of familiar British TV faces such as Glover . Henney and Booth , the sort of journeymen actors you'd expect to see in this type of media so much so that every time Wayne appears in a scene you're almost taken out of the film That said however BRANNIGAN is entertaining enough . It's certainly not a great movie but at the same time doesn't play up the the sometimes nasty and bitchy rivalry Britain and America has . If you love Regan and Carter beating up slags doing a blag then you will like this film if you don't take it too seriously