Buster (1988)

hyped garbage

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Phill can't act worth 2 cents. The robbery is over in the first 15-20 minutes after that it's really only down hill. Hiding from the law,cause they've ben careless leaving clues behind And when they finally escape to Acapulco.All Busters wife does is complain,nag nag nag about how she miss fish and chips and yada yada.As usual with movies like these,the never point the finger at the wife.Who always wanted something better than what they had. She act like her husband isn't a wanted man back home in england. *****spoilers'******** Even worse,he leaves Acapulco cause he can't stand being without his naging wife,who left him for england. So he goes back to england and ofc get arrested

Well,the police did manage to make it stick without the poppy,very little was ever recovered but still a few big time and a lot of small time crims got a lot of bird dished out to them.Of the small time crims Buster Edwards has become a tacky legend thanks to the risible hagiographic movie "Buster",a contender for anyone's Worst Ever list. The big time boys,Roy "The Weasel" James,Douglas "Checker" Goody,Bruce Reynolds caught the headlines,lesser lights like Edwards and Biggs swanked in their reflected glory.Time has scythed down most of the train robbers,but it is aposite to point out that had Jack Mills died within a year and a day of their savage attack on him one or more of them might well have been hanged in accordance with the law at that time. Buster Edwards was nothing like Phil Collins.He was a thief who would have stolen the suit from your back(or your tailor's dummy). Robin Hood he wasn't.His wife June surely can't have been as grotesque as Julie Walters makes her,a Victoria Beckham for the sixties. It's hot in Mexico,not like the elephant at all.......there's a surprise. As I understand it Mrs Edwards was right at the front of the queue when nous was handed out.After her initial delight I'm sure she was appalled to see what a silly woman Miss Walters had turned her into. It must have been tough for Buster lying out there in the sun for all that time whilst all us mugs back in Blighty were breaking our backs to earn a living.My heart bleeds. So a dedicated career thug is turned by a popular singer into a chirpy cheeky cockney geezer wot loves his family and didn't mean anyone any harm.Yeah right. Add a few wishy - washy songs and you have sanitised a decidedly murky character,trivialised his crime and treated him as if he was a naughty puppy.Mix in a few spurious arguments about excessive sentences, government interference with the judiciary etc and you have the British film industry's considered take on one of the most notorious crimes of the 20th century.Risible indeed.

Buster is possibly Phil 'The Brusier' Collins' finest ever moment. The film itself is a roller-coaster ride from comedy to emotion. The film, in places is dreary and sluggish, however a tour de force performance by Collins makes up for its shortcomings. The film could be improved with additional musical accompaniment from the 'bruiser'as only 'two hearts' stands out. The supporting cast is not up to Phil's acting standards. Julie Walters is particularly annoying.But seriously this film should rank alongside The Great Escape and Flashdance as a classic Sunday afternoon film. In fact it is as important as the dinner that precedes it.

Singer Collins stars in this simple film about a thief who successfully pulls off the biggest train robbery in history, who then decides to start a new life in Acapulco with his wife June (Walters). Well matched stars in lovely paced yarn with Oscar nominated tunes from Collins ("Two Hearts").