North Sea Hijack (1980)
Genre: Adventure / Thriller
Duration: 99 minuten
Alternative titles: Ffolkes / Het Laatste Ultimatum
Country:
United Kingdom
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen
Stars: Roger Moore, James Mason and Anthony Perkins
IMDb score:
6,3 (6.351)
Releasedate: 18 February 1980
North Sea Hijack plot
"When the next 12 hours could cost you 1,000 million pounds and 600 lives you need a man who lives second by second"
Rufus Excalibur Ffolkes is a deep sea diving adventurer with a lot of experience and a sense of humor. When terrorist Lou Kramer hijacks an oil platform in the North Sea and threatens to blow it up, Ffolkes is hired by Admiral Brinsden to stop it.
Actors and actresses
Rufus Excalibur ffolkes
Lou Kramer
Admiral Brindsen
Robert King
Harold Shulman
Captain Olafson
Terry Herring
Lord Privy Seal Dennis Tipping
Fletcher
British Prime Minister
Reviews & comments
Theunissen
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- 12279 messages
- 5519 votes
Nice and above all an entertaining old-fashioned thriller with a special role of lead actor Roger Moore. Normally he always plays the womanizer in a charming way, but in this film he hates women (he also explains why at a certain point) and prefers cats. He also looks a bit strange with, among other things, a ridiculous beard and mustache (not wearing a suit this time either) and he also embroiders 
Although the story is now quite dated (at the time quite topical due to the first and still only female prime minister of the United Kingdom, namely Margaret Thatcher), the film managed to fascinate (it never really gets exciting and there is also relatively little action) and the execution was also good. The latter is of course mainly due to protagonist Roger Moore who does it well (including humor) in his role of the grumpy deep-sea diver and adventurer Rufus Excalibur Ffolkes, but also by Anthony Perkins in the role of terrorist Lou Kramer. The other cast, including James Mason, do a creditable job. The ending was nice and because the film only lasts about 90 minutes, it also looks good.
All in all just a nice old fashioned Thriller to have seen once and nothing more.
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scorsese
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- 13232 messages
- 11124 votes
Nice film in which an oil platform is hijacked by criminals for ransom. Despite the fact that the film largely takes place on the oil platform, the plot is fairly standard. The film feels like an action film, but there is almost no action in it. A fairly exciting ending and an entertaining role from Roger Moore who also has some nice one-liners here.
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Filmkriebel
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- 10012 messages
- 4678 votes
Enjoyed. In its own way, this is quite a suspenseful film, with a particularly strong role from the psycho from Psycho, Anthony Perkins in the role of a charismatic villain who plants bombs on two oil rigs to get ransom. The heavy burden of countering this villainous act lies in the hands of a petulant, grumbling, cat-loving and misogynist captain. Ffolkes' sexist statements can only make you laugh, especially when he says that cats as a race are more superior than women. Not great, but a fun movie.
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