Un peu cheeky, this. After Nick Love’s big-screen Sweeney rehash elicited lukewarm responses in 2012, its producers stuck the script on the Eurostar and saw it remade as something called Antigang. That film has now been repackaged and retitled into what sounds like a franchise-expanding spinoff, yet its MO is near-identical: blokey – albeit newly subtitled – surveillance-van banter between burly womaniser Jean Reno and sidekick Alban Lenoir (as “Cartier”); much Saab-ad flash applied to careworn maverick cop business; thunderous rounds of ammo passing through paper-thin characterisations. No longer bound by Winstonian gravity, it’s the pacier watch, but these knuckles can only be dragged so far before tiredness sets in.
