The Offence (1972)

Stunning. In a career filled with so many highs, this is the best Connery performance I’ve ever seen. This should be a case study in how to succeed with an unlikable, damn near repugnant protagonist that constantly pushes the audience away from him. I was floored. Another…

ChrisStuckmann

Never saw this Lumet and had the opportunity to do so with Kino Lorber's Blu-ray. Like his others that are based on plays, it's obvious. But Lumet's direction is always worth studying... even with his less accomplished films. From imdb trivia: The movie took just…

Sean Baker

Action! - Lumet/Pollack: The Fight of the Century After failing nearly catastrophically in his first try at psychological horror, Lumet tries again with Sean Connery in the lead. And, while the picture is technically more of a thriller than a horror, the audience is…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

The offence is a unique psychological drama with slight elements of a thriller film easily offers the best Sean Connery performance there is. He’s just otherworldly in this he brings so much anger and emotion into this film especially in the interrogation scenes he’s…

Sam

The 1970s Crime Season! In one of the many well deserved tributes that were paid to Sidney Lumet just after his death in 2011, Woody Allen said that Lumet was "The quintessential New York filmmaker." I have no wish to argue with that in terms of the level of praise…

🇵🇱 Steve G 🐝

"All the people. And the things and death. Bodies, stinking, swollen, black, putrid and the smell of death. White, shattered, splintered bones. Filthy, swarming, slimy maggots in my mind." An unsparing and wholly consuming character piece, one that retains the agonizing…

Ryne Walley

After burnt out Detective Sergeant Johnson (Sean Connery) reaches breaking point during an interrogation, his ordered life slowly begins to come apart at the seams, in Sidney Lumet’s crime neo-noir drama co-starring Ian Bannen, Trevor Howard and Vivien Merchant. It’s an…

Josh Gillam

Lumet loved to cast Connery against type. At least in the collaborations I’ve watched so far, Lumet never hired Connery to play a suave hero. In Lumet’s world, he’s always a low-status guy; an ex-con, a thief who’s not nearly as good at his job as he thinks, or here an…

Matt Singer

If I had to choose a Sean Connery/Sidney Lumet collaboration to watch, it would definitely be The Hill. This was good, but the interrogation scenes just feel like 2 Angry Men at some points. Detective Johnson, played by Connery, is an angry and at times cruel character.…

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