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directed by Norman Stone
UK 1989
More straightforward than
DEAD HEAD, THE JUSTICE GAME finds Dennis
Lawson's Glasgow laywer Dominic Rossi as another cynic
who discovering how things are really run behind the
curtains. Busy on the high-profile case of two
footballers in a fracas with father-and-son hooligans,
Rossi misses the desperate call from the
subsequently-murdered Sandowski (CALLAN's Russell
Hunter), an accountant who did a runner rather than
testify against one of Rossi's clients. Rossi hires a PI
friend to look into Sandowski's more recent past while
he ends up taking on a case that is closely-related: the
defense of an ex-army man (GAME OF THRONES' Ron
Donachie) suspected to be behind a series of vigilante
firebombings of the urban poor. It is quite obvious to
the audience well before Rossi that everything ties back
to a mysterious merchant-banking firm run by a
wonderfully glowering Michael Kitchen (OUT
OF AFRICA) while
FLAWLESS lurks around in the shadows, so the
suspense comes from just when and how Rossi will make
that connection (and how many of his allies will be
killed before he does). More interesting than the case
itself is the film's depiction of a yuppie world in
which characters variously have issues with justifying
their enjoyment of the high life when their work
involves them with those less fortunate (Rossi and
underground newspaper friend Gerry [Hilton McRae,
GREYSTOKE] are former student revolutionaries
who hang out in gentrified businesses that were once the
greasy spoons of their youth). Among the familiar faces
in the first series are LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM's
Paul Brooke, BRIDGET JONES' DIARY's Celia Imrie,
and
SYMPTOMS' Lorna Heilbron. |
Theatrical Release: 7 April 1989 (UK)
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DVD Review: Simply Media - Region 2 - PAL
Big thanks to Eric Cotenas for the Review!
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Runtime | 5:48:53 (4% PAL speedup) | |
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1.33:1 Original Aspect Ratio |
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Audio | English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono | |
Subtitles | English HoH, none | |
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Information: Studio: Simply Media Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 37 |
Comments |
Simply Media affords the two series of the show a dual-layer disc each, appropriate since each series encompasses single cases. Shot on film and finished on video, the combination of grain and video noise is baked into the finished master. The Dolby Digital 2.0 mono mix is fairly sedate, only really coming to life when there is gunfire, explosions, or bursts of score or source music. The optional English HoH subtitles are mostly helpful but the spellings of character names change from episode to episode and there are a few transcription errors ("I had an ulterior motive" becomes "I didn't volunteer. I had motive"). Italian dialogue during the second series is subtitled with burnt-in subtitles on a transparent grey band. |
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