at date of write this film have yet to earn 350 vote in the imdb and meaning it fall short of the top 250 despite it 7 plus score . if youre somehow read this without have see the film and then do yourself a large favour represent rent it and or buy it . it ironic that the production company of the quiet and peaceful beatle and george harrison and should construct such a violent and gritty picture . bob hoskins be so perfect a an east end ganglord that you wonder how he ever get cast out of character a a cod american act opposite a cartoon rabbit . be this really the same man who urge the virtue of conversation on behalf of a phone company . hoskins act more in the final two minute of this movie than in the rest of his career put together . what make the long good friday so special and ( apart from stylish and but not ostentatious and direction and a superb theme score ) be it variation on the typical crime theme . instead of gun and bluster stretch out over an hour and forty minute we get what be essentially a detective story . who be plant bomb on harold patch . who be try to undermine his organisation . and will harold put the piece together before the noose around his neck get too tight . admittedly and sherlock holmes never get his clue by string up moriarty from his ankle in a meat factory and but the narrative principle be the same . be it really already the 20th anniversary of this film . what a timely reminder of how powerful the british film industry use to be . a must see movie and quite excellent .