It's produced by Laurence Malkin, Joe Simpson, Kwesi Dickson, and Andy McNab. The screenplay is by Laurence Malkin and Chad Thumann, based on the novel "Red Notice" by former SAS operator Andy McNab. SAS: Red Notice is directed by Norwegian filmmaker Magnus Martens, director of the films United, Svein and the Rat, and Jackpot previously. Unarmed and cut off from his counter terror team, Tom is the only hope that Sophie and the other passengers have to make it out alive. Grace threatens to expose the British governments darkest secrets and blow up the Channel Tunnel if her ransom demands are not met. When their train is deep inside the Channel Tunnel, Grace Lewis (Ruby Rose) and her team of heavily armed war criminals seize the train and hold hundreds of passengers hostage. Sophie Hart from London to Paris to propose. Tom Buckingham (Sam Heughan), a special forces operator, is taking Dr. Here's the official US trailer (+ poster) for Magnus Martens' SAS: Red Notice, from Vertical's YouTube: Described as a "provocative and authentic portrayal of an emergency response operation" with some revenge added in. This stars Sam Heughan, Ruby Rose, Andy Serkis, Tom Hopper, Owain Yeoman, and Tom Wilkinson. I admit this a cool setup, but it does look like direct-to-DVD action junk, for the most part. With the woman he loves and an unborn baby also on board, Tom has one chance to stop Laszlo and his band of criminals. But little do they know, they have one too many hostages, as SAS operator Tom Buckingham is on the train. Now with 400 hostages, the plan is to blow up the English Channel and in the process expose the British governments darkest secrets. A small army of well trained criminals have hijacked the Eurostar deep beneath the English Channel. The best one can say for the cast is I hope their checks cleared."Get down there and kill her." Vertical has released a new trailer for SAS: Red Notice, an international action-thriller from Norwegian filmmaker Magnus Martens. It’s a messy blood-bath with a “Die Hard” sequel death-count, no real heroes and no one to root for. “I’m still going,” he purrs to a captive. “I save them.”Īndy Serkis plays a ruthless SAS leader who knows “politicians come and go,” that he’s the only constant. “He takes lives for a living,” she cracks. As is, “How many people have you killed?”Ī favorite moment? Sophie instantly over-shares with a stranger the next seat over, pre-attack. “We’re a lot alike,” is a given, something the villainess is sure to say to Tom. The train attack details are interesting enough, if you’ve ever wondered how somebody might attempt something like that (surely some groups have given it a lot of thought).īut the action beats are half-hearted, the plot “twists” unworthy of that label and situations and dialogue ludicrous on an English-as-Second-Language level. He’s armed and trained,” the slaughter begins, with passengers murdered left and right as if all on board realize this is a suicide mission. Before Grace, who sheds the clever disguise that got her on board, can say “There’s a player in the battle space. How’ll the mismatched couple travel? Train, of course. He’ll sweep reluctant doctor-girlfriend Sophia ( Hannah John-Kamen) off to Paris, let the police and border control folks round the rest up. “Posh” Tom Buckingham ( Sam Heughan), a commando with an estate of his own, got in his share of kills. Ironically named daughter Grace (Rose) is his heir apparent, chosen over his more lunkish son ( Owain Yeoman).Ī cellphone video of the massacre gets out, the news that they’ll all be arrested (fat chance, “silenced”) is announced on TV long before the raid on their suburban London estate is planned. Wilkinson runs the Black Swans as a family business. The pithy “Die Hard Lite” punchlines don’t help. It’s no wonder Netflix changed the title to “Rise of the Black Swan” when they got it. A terrible script renders respectable actors ( Tom Wilkinson, Andy Serkis) terrible, and limited “action” stars ( Ruby Rose) unwatchably awful. “ SAS: Red Notice” is bad by design, stupid in execution and soulless in every important and unimportant way. It prematurely climaxes with an attack on a Eurostar Chunnel train, passengers popped without pity by smirking “contractor” villains.Īnd at every turn, mercs and the military folk commissioned via “Red Notice” to bring them down - by the same British government that hired the Black Swan “contractors” in the first place - make wisecracks and “switch off” to get on with their lives. It begins with mercenaries massacring a village in the Republic of Georgia, because they won’t accept a gas pipeline scheduled to pass through it.
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