The Sweeney (2012 film) Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 47% score based on 60 reviews, with an average rating of 5/10. The site's consensus states: "Ray Winstone exudes tough-guy bravado, but this cop thriller otherwise feels thoroughly generic." "The New York Times" wrote, "Marred by an overbearing musical score and an undercooked plot (by the director, Nick Love, and John Hodge), “The Sweeney” nevertheless looks a lot classier than its characters. Simon Dennis’s photography is glossy and crisp, and a lengthy foot chase — making excellent use of the National Gallery — is inventively choreographed." Metacritic reports a 48 out of 100 rating
Jack the Ripper in fiction Jane Horrocks as a serial killer who imagines that she is given advice by the incarnations of famous murderers. John Mills plays Jack the Ripper as an outwardly mild-mannered hairdresser. "Just be the sort of person nobody suspects," he tells her. In an earlier black comedy, "Dr. Strangelove", the antagonist is named General Jack D. Ripper, but the comparison goes no deeper. "Amazon Women on the Moon" is a 1987 comedy film that parodies theories of the Ripper's identity by speculating that Jack the Ripper was the Loch Ness Monster in disguise. Marcel Carné's "Drôle de Drame" (1937) is another