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Who Dares Wins (DVD)
Year: 1982
Rating: M
Director: Ian Sharp
Cast: Lewis Collins, Judy Davis, Richard Widmark, Edward Woodward
Release Date: February 09, 2011
Distributor: Shock
The Film: 4.0
FILMINK rates DVDs and Blu-rays out of 5"...a remarkably well constructed movie."
With the 1980 siege at the Iranian embassy still fresh in the public consciousness (the defining image of the event was the storming of the embassy by the SAS), when Who Dares Wins was released in 1982 it became an immediate cult classic.
The film follows the infiltration of a radical organisation by SAS trooper Skellen (Lewis Collins) who has plans of taking a delegation of American politicians hostage. While Who Dares Wins would be classed as an action movie there is relatively little action in it, but what there is is executed beautifully. With as much focus paid to the intelligence gathering methods of MI5 - which makes for exciting games of cat and mouse around London as gun play - Who Dares Wins comes across as a remarkably well constructed movie.
Lewis Collins delivers the performance of his career as the hard-bitten Skellen, while Judy Davis is cold as ice as the leader of the terrorist group. As well as the two great leads, Who Dares Wins also has a fine supporting cast in the shape of Edward Woodward, Richard Widmark, John Duttine and especially Hammer favourite Ingrid Pitt as the sinister Helga.
