By EWAN McDONALD
(Herald rating: * * * )
The one that Steven Soderbergh didn't get an Oscar nomination for, The Limey brings back two actors whom you might have thought had seen better days and pays affectionate tribute to their screen history.
Terence Stamp is Wilson, a British hardman who flies the
Atlantic to seek revenge for his daughter's murder. He believes the killer was Valentine (Peter Fonda), a legendary record producer turned drug dealer who lives in the hills above LA, protected by his security man, Avery (Barry Newman).
Whole scenes, played as flashbacks of Wilson as a young man, are actually Stamp in Ken Loach's Poor Cow (1967).
Fonda appears to the Hollies' song King Midas In Reverse, from the same year: "He's Easy Rider with a curse."
Fitting, then, that the story is about tough guys who are past their use-by dates but ... just rent Easy Rider or Poor Cow. If you can find them.
Running time: 89 mins
Rental: Today
