Claysaba
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
Invaderbank
The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Allison Davies
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Cool-World
To compare Back in Business with a modern day Film is like saying that a child's homemade go-cart and a Ferrari are comparable as they both have wheels and are capable of independent movement. Back In Business is not a conventional film, per se. It's a product of old cinema which was more about outrageous exhibition as about story telling - It's a Mad (5) World, What's New Pussycat, Barbarella. They're big, flabby, self-indulgent, glorious messes that stand as social commentary as much as cinema.The in-jokes, the winking references, the cameos - all are used to great effect in Back In Business. Great music, great costumes, some good sets, wall of sound - all make Back In Business a little piece of 60s film-making for the modern day. Please don't watch it if you want to watch a competent and engaging movie - but do watch it if you want 90 mins of nostalgia and silliness and stupid enjoyment Then Enjoy This Film
davideo-2
STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning Britain has just invented a space exploration buggy named 'Explorer' that rivals anything the world's two space super-powers, America and Russia, have created. Spruce conman Will Spencer (Martin Kemp) plots to steal it, along with his old friend Tom (Chris Barrie), his computer whizz son Travis (Stefan Booth) and Will's niece Fiona (Joanna Taylor.) But Will's old adversary and now man-servant, Det Jarvis (Dennis Waterman) is determined to use the scam to bring him down and get back in the police force...or will he end up wanting in on the scam himself?The first I saw of this movie was a poster of it in a magazine that boasted it was 'one of the few films in recent years to achieve an 100% British grade' and that we should 'do our part to keep the British film industry thriving' and see it, even though I can't name a single cinema it was released in. In other words, the BFI is in such a bad state it's now trying to make us feel we have a duty to go out and see whatever rubbish it's responsible for! In these post Sex Lives of the Potato Men days though, I suppose that's something you could believe...The film was entirely British made, then, and I guess it shows all the way. Indeed, the film does look very cheap and the low budget is clear for all to see. And then there's the cast. Martin Kemp with a Cambridge accent?!? I struggled to keep a straight face through-out. I don't know if that's how Chris Barrie talks in real life, but I found it very annoying anyway. Then there's some ex-Hollyoaks actor who looks like he's wondered right out of panto which only adds to the cheapness of it all and as for Joanna Taylor, one of the things I learned from the film Shoot 'Em Up is if an actress isn't giving a particularly great performance it always helps if she has a nice pair of breasts to stare at instead of her face and, well, that works here. And finally, Dennis Waterman ('I could be so good for...a disgruntled ex police-man!!!') Apparently he gets annoyed at them taking the p!ss out of his voice in Little Britain but it sounds very weird here, like he's put a funny twang on it that makes it sound rather peculiar and unsettling indeed.A cheap and unfunny experience all round, then, that does no favours for the BFI and certainly none for us. *
del hart
This is English film making at its worst, i really do not know how or why it got funded in the fist place, it has some good actors, Dennis Waterman, Brian Blessed and Martin Kemp, and putting aside his days as bass player with Spandau Ballet, a very good actor, so again, why would they take on this project, money, fame, favor, suicide. To cut to the chase, we have a pair of con men, one of which is a lord of the realm (nothing new there then)and his old school mate, together they are know as, wait for it, Marks & Spencer, paaleese, must have had an epiphany to think of that, and it gets worse, after conning three country's into buying Londons Tower Bridge, the two are back together to steal and sell a space buggy type vehicle, that was invented by the BSA, (British Space Agency) to either the Russians or the Chinese, what a plot, to be honest i never knew we had a space agency, the UK was not one of the first to put anyone on the moon as far as i remember, back to the plot. The thing is there is no space buggy type vehicle, because the BSA ran out of money before it was completed, so what do Marks & Spencer do, they build one from one of those little trucks gardeners use, with some tin foil, wheels from a mini tractor, bits from here and there and lo and behold we have a blue print built, state of the art space buggy vehicle. Needless to say the Russians, the Chinese are in the frame to buy this item for millions, and to be honest who cares, so i am as fed up with writing this review as watching the thing, but i wanted to let you know before you spend your hard earned money, miss this like the plague, in fact the plague may be a better alternative. be safe
Tony Camel
Gone are the days when every new ITV drama came equipped with the words 'starring Martin Kemp', so the title of this new film applies as much to him as it does the pair of conmen reunited for the greatest job of their lives. Kemp is Will Spencer, working alongside his old partner, master of disguise Tom Marks (Red Dwarf's Chris Barrie) and his spectacularly incompetent son, Travis (Stefan Booth). Their ace in the hole, however, is Will's niece Fiona (Joanna Taylor), who works at the British Space Centre, where they've just developed a space buggy that could help solve planet's energy and ecological problems. This group of misfits and insiders plan to put themselves at the centre of Britain's major scientific breakthrough. Only Dennis Waterman as Jarvis - the Inspector Clouseau of Scotland Yard - can stop them.Back In Business is the kind of gentle family caper movie that used to be a staple of British cinema back in the days of the Boulting Brothers and Ealing Studios. Sadly, though, this has neither the wit nor insight into the social fabric of those golden movies. Instead we get an anodyne adventure that limps along with a bunch of performances that would be better suited to Sunday evening TV comedy dramas than the big screen. It may be a while before Martin Kemp can give up the sofa adverts...
