Movies
Let Him Have It
True story, crime story, sob story, about an epileptic halfwit (mentally damaged in the Blitz?) who falls in with a bad crowd, takes part in the murder of a London bobby. (When he yelled "Let him have it," he meant "Give the copper the gun," not "Plug him with it.") Step by trudging step to the gallows, with nothing left to the imagination. Frigidly photographed and emphatically acted, though Tom Courtenay affectingly softens the edges of the condemned boy's father. With Mark McGann and Christopher Eccleston; directed by Peter Medak. 1991.
— Duncan Shepherd
Reader Rating:
- MPAA Rating: R
