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Kramer, mortally wounded, makes one last attempt to blow up Jennifer, but is stopped by ffolkes and dies. McLaglen with star Roger Moore who had worked together on ¨The Wild Geese¨ , they would work together again on ¨The Sea Wolves¨, their third and final movie together. The others realise this fact and decide the best way to play this is to just run with it, have a good time, and really that is what anyone watching the film should do. Despite the misgivings of the Royal navy command who consider him a loose cannon the prime minister commissions Ffolkes to liberate the platform. First, the James Bond star sports a thick beard, knits when thinking, and refuse to be proved wrong.

North Sea Hijack (released as ffolkes outside the UK and as Assault Force on US TV [1]) is a 1980 British adventure film starring Roger Moore, Lea Brodie, [2] James Mason, Anthony Perkins and Michael Parks. McLaglen and Davis both know that superior thrillers follow a formula in which things go from bad to worse before the finale. Evidently, Roger Moore had a grand time playing Ffolkes because this qualifies as his most robust, forceful portrayal in years. Throughout his career critics have placed Roger Moore in a catagory with such alleged actors as George Hamilton and Pamela Anderson.

Licensed from Universal, Kino's Blu-ray of ffolkes looks very good, comparable to the transfer used for release in Europe a few years back. This picture and its source Jack Davies 'Esther, Ruth and Jennifer' novel were both first released in the same 1979 year ; the meaning and relevance of this movie's source novel is that the three names refer to the three sea-based entities that are threatened to be blown-up in the story in both the book and the film. Stuart Galbraith IV is the Kyoto-based film historian currently restoring a 200-year-old Japanese farmhouse. McLaglen actioneer "Ffolkes," based on Jack Davis' novel "Esther, Ruth and Jennifer," gives Roger Moore a refreshingly different, change-of-pace role.

It is however quite enjoyable on its level, which is that of a fairly straightforward and formulaic thriller with some dashes of humour. Roger Moore plays a bearded, eccentric Scottish millionaire and renowned Mr Fix-It who the British government reluctantly deploys along with his specialist outfit to re-capture two oil rigs being held by mercenaries (principally Tony Perkins as the group's leader, and the coke-bottle bespectacled Michael Parks as the ubiquitous "computer geek" if you're familiar with the stereotype from these type of movies). The supporting is great, too, with James Mason a joy to watch for his bemused reactions to ffolkes's larger-than-life personality quirks; Michael Parks as Kramer's hypermetropic lieutenant; David Hedison (who'd played Felix Leiter opposite Moore in Live and Let Die) as an oil rig supervisor; Faith Brook as the Thatcher-esque P. There are some well delineated scenes, such as an exciting sequence in which a couple of ships crew try to poison their captors but are found out and killed.In strolls Andrew McLaglen, "I used to direct John Wayne movies once", and there's Roger Moore, a smug grin on his face, he doesn't need to say anything, he has got the James Bond franchise to fall back on, North Sea Hijack is merely the chance to have a good time and get paid for it. Her Majesty's government has hired him to do a nasty job on some people who have hijacked an offshore oil rig in the North Sea and are threatening to blow it up. Nota bene: The London Times crossword puzzle is designed by sadistic geniuses for consumption by big league masochists. Everything about "Ffolkes" goes against the grain of the typical, well-mannered, saintly Moore image.

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