The Long Good Friday (1980) Film Review

Alongside Get Carter and Performance, one of the greatest hard
edged 70s British gangster films. Despite being hugely
influential on more trite post Lock Stock fair, this is a hugely
complicated screenplay, with massive, almost Shakespearean themes
as a never better Bob Hoskings, goes through a proto-Uncut Gems
nightmare. With deals he cant hang onto anymore than what he
already has. Visions of a fading and rising Thatcherite UK merge
into a fever dream - with a stunning soundtrack - as Hoskins and
a superb Helen Mirren, realise too late, the Barbarians at the
gate are more than they can handle.