Ok, this one has about as much gratuitous use of firearms as films such as “Heat” and “Die Hard.” It’s also not a bad movie, especially if you grew up during the Cold War and have some knowledge of international terrorism.
It’s about the Baader Meinhof Gang aka Red Army Faction, and follows their actions from creation of the group to demise of the founding members. Thankfully it portrays them as the left wing radicals they were and doesn’t glamorize them too much. The actresses who portray members of the group are more attractive than the actual members but I think that can be overlooked.
Might be hard to track down a copy, however Netflix does have it.
And they do cover the firearms.
There are the obligatory Kalashnikovs when they are training in the Middle East.
Then there is their personal cache of weapons.
There are the weapons used by law enforcement.
And then there is the gunplay, including very realistic reenactments of actual events.
I stumbled onto that recently and the reviews were TERRIBLE!!!
I thought it was decent myself, but apparently there only about 6 of us.
Now I know who two of them are.
Yep, that was a decent one. It was neat seeing a movie take on that whole ordeal, though I was a kid at the time ;). Who doesn’t like movies about combat ninjas lol:
Wow, The Final Option was a great cable TV movie when I was a kid. It was the first time I’d ever seen SAS hostage rescue tactics. Stuff like blowing a wall with explosives and killing the lights at the same time to confuse the bad guys, then using guns with weaponlights to shoot the bad guys, all within a second or two. Then there’s room to room serach and destroy with every door breached with a shotgun and a flash-bang thrown in before clearing. Good stuff! And way ahead of it’s time for a movie - I think it was 25 years ago.
Perhaps the reviews are bad because the far-left do-gooder terrorists that take the embassy hostage to make a statement against nuclear weapons all get killed.
This really is a good film, definitely worth a view… the raf training in the mid east was a hoot. ‘The Tunnel’ and ‘Bravo Two Zero’ are a couple more worth a view. I’ll have to check out Final Option, I don’t think netflix has it though.
I remember seeing the news footage of the two SAS troopers blowing the second floor window and thinking, “this looks like a movie!” Shortly thereafter I leared that it was real.
Here’s a History Channel series on the raid, it’s 4 or five parts. Check it out.
Most comprehensive thing on DVD about 16 Princess Gate is “The SAS in Action” (2004). Netflix does have it, but otherwise it can be a difficult title to find for sale.
I saw the movie a looong time ago on VHS (actually dubbed it then) but just a couple of weeks ago or so was just googling schtuff and it came up.
Watched the raid scene at the end.
I have searched in the past for a DVD but never found anything.
VHS can be found and I suppose if’n you had the right hardware burned onto a DVD.
Not sure about the scene with the two guys suspended below the helicopter going through the windows.
Just toooo much to go wrong…
Not spaced quite right, altitude just a tad off, break resistant glass, getting through the window but not off the line in time…
All have bad endings.
Think getting through the window and then getting yanked unceremoniously back through the window and dragged up the side of the building and onto the roof would NOT be fun.
At all.
No matter how you define fun.
