Utterly terrible - and therefore watchable for all the wrong reasons - B movie heist story with unconvincing characters, nonsensical plot and, in the version I saw on tv, at least one key scene either accidentally edited out, or not filmed at all, creating an unfortunate hole in continuity. Nice-but-dim Tim (Jack Watling) is led into gambling debts by old chum Harry, making him a prime target to collude with the villains in robbing gold from Tim's workplace. Mr Big, Pliny (Karel Stepanek) speaks as if he has spent months planning a cunning and complex heist, whereas in fact he has simply hired a few heavies to rob the place once Tim has drugged his security colleagues. As other viewers have alluded to, the final showdown - where the police, forewarned and prepared for the ambush of the villains, rather than simply outnumbering and arresting them, engage them in a fist fight but (what a surprise) the Mr Big has a gun - is laughable, and the real Met should sue. Mr Big also has a bag on his head, so he looks like The Elephant Man, and when he produces the gun the actors freeze, as if you have pressed the pause button on your remote. Fortunately the day is saved by the hero making a lunge at the gunman, and the fighting continues exactly from the point where they paused it, thus at least ensuring an ending in keeping with the rest of this risible dross. As for 'Luigi' - Sgt Wilson will be turning in his grave. Laughably bad but fun nonetheless. Susan Stephen is charming as Tim's wife, but why she would marry such a drip is beyond me - she does at least insist on them having separate beds!
Review of Dangerous Cargo
