Nuns On The Run

A lot of movies lack for originality and draw their inspiration from, or blatantly rip off earlier, more successful efforts. This movie is one such celluloid piece of pilfery and whilst it does borrow really quite heavily from Some Like it hot it is a good movie in it's own right.

Brian and Charlie are two small time crooks working for a vicious Mr Big. They want to get out out the crime game but their guvnor wants them to carry out a dangerous robbery, ripping off Triads. They use this as a cover for stealing the money and doing a runner from their psycho boss. However, things go awry and they are forced to hide out in a convent and dress up as nuns. One of them falls for a someone staying at the small medical wing and the other gets very into being a nun. Eventually their boss, the Triads and the police all catch up with them and they go on the run again, this time making their escape to Rio, via an airport.

That really is about it as far as the plot goes, it certainly is a very undemanding film. The setting is very dated, but then again the film is nearly 20 years old. Filmed mostly on location in and around West London there are scenes that provide big belly laughs but mostly the comedy is more of the gentle smile variety than laughs variety. As a football fan I was also pleased to see a small scene filmed in the car park of Stamford Bridge but then again that's probably just me that's pleased by that.

This is a fun if not exactly sophisticated British film, one that I feel has been ignored by some, a kind of forgotten gem if you will. You could certainly do worse than spend 90 minutes watching this. It's really quite good fun.