RANSOM is a sombre and gritty British kidnap thriller, set in the chilly Scandinavian wilds where military police chief Sean Connery must lock horns with a terrorist leader who's got a passenger plane full of potential victims. This is a cold affair, highly political as were so many 1970s movies, and well acted by the principal cast members. Connery plays it down and plays it seriously here with none of that trademark charm, and Ian McShane is well chosen as the edgy terrorist. The film goes for realistic over overblown, with the action limited to a sort-of plane chase and an electrifying final sequence. It does well with the material and doesn't really feel all that dated despite the intervening decades.
Review of The Terrorists
