Shadow Run

1998 "A hardened gangster plans to steal £100 million in 20 minutes... and take full advantage of the shadow run. All he has to fear is his partner."

Shadow Run

4.3 | 1h34m | en | Thriller

Haskell is assigned a job by his boss, the aristocratic Landon-Higgins, to highjack a high security van in broad daylight while it's in the shadow run (out of radio contact with the main security firm). He assembles a team to carry out the heist, but things don't go according to plan and Haskell begins to think his boss might be double crossing him. Add to this, a teenage boarding school pupil has already witnessed some of the meetings of the team and Haskell's in real trouble.

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Released: January. 01,1998 | Released Producted By: Majestic Films & Television , Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Michael Caine , James Fox , Christopher Cazenove

Director

Eduard van der Enden

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Michael Caine

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James Fox

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Christopher Cazenove

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Reviews

fcasanova We know why Michael Caine would take a roll in a piece of trash like this... This master actor has at least one huge folly. He is panic stricken whenever he is out of work, thinking that he'll never work again...so, he takes anything that comes along when he's finished with his last film. Sometimes it is shear garbage that comes along. It was fun watching the crew's reflections in Sir Michael's sunglasses. Didn't look like there were too many of them either. You sure this wasn't a student film. It sure looked like it. And I don't think they got a passing grade either! Bizarre production financing company too (maybe that's a clue to the cluelessness of it all). Some Industrial company. My guess is they supplied all the construction sites for free.

Paul Myland Possibly the worst movie I have ever made myself watch. The supermarket near my office recently had a stack of DVD's for 97p and the cast list caught my eye and parted me with my money. Tim Healey has the sense to get despatched early into proceedings but this woeful vehicle for Michael Caine and Edward Fox doesn't let them off so soon. I note that the director's children appear in this and that none of them have found a great deal of movie work since. Although this only cost me a very small sum of money, I will never get back the almost-2 hours it took me to watch this rubbish. I'd send it to the local church jumble sale but some other poor sap would have an equally unfulfilling afternoon, even if they only pay 10p for it.

mjh_uk-1 I think the film has great atmosphere, with its contrasting seediness of the gangsters and the magnificence of the cathedral and its music. Joffrey's character, too, is interestingly developed, and gives credibility as to why he should be drawn to character like that of Haskell. I do not see Haskell's failure to kill Joffrey as inconsistent. Rather, it suggests that Haskell has some redeeming qualities and, like the rest of us, is not all bad. One can understand why he would hesitate to kill a child, not least because he senses the boy's admiration for him. Kenneth Colley provides an excellent supporting role . His willingness to die without further treatment in order to help his ex-wife financially suggests a certain nobility of character. I certainly do not agree with the reviewer's dismissal of the film as second rate. It has a style and quality of its own which makes it enjoyable to watch and provokes thought.

Koberstein Being a devoted Michael Caine fan I was horrified after watching "Shadow Run" that I indeed had spent money on the DVD. Usually even if Michael Caine stars in a bad movie he himself is still a pleasure to watch. Somehow this doesn´t seem to be the case here. I don´t know who to blame first.