Cinema 100

A little known British gangster movie from the 80s. I didn't know anything about this movie until I recently watched it. Tarantino must have watched this. It has one of his favourite actors (Tim Roth) in an early role and the dialog and general air of nothing much happening except for loaded conversation, violent interludes and then a bloody resolution is typically Tarantinoesque.

The movie is basically a road movie set in Spain with some twists.

The actors are superlative with Roth, Hurt and Terence Stamp all inhabiting their roles. Stamp is the most impressive and his sudden character change is one of the shocks of the movie as is his unexpected demise. The characters are all unredeemingly tainted and there are no changes of heart along the way. Laura Del Sol is also impressive and I don't know if she's been in many other roles but she is memorably sexy and feisty in this movie.