Tomorrow Never Comes

March. 02,1978      PG
Rating:
5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working at a new resort hotel where the owner has given her a permanent place to stay, as well as other gifts, in exchange for her affections. The two of them get into a fight and things quickly get out of control and the police are called and in turns into a hostage situation...

Oliver Reed as  Jim Wilson
Susan George as  Janie
Raymond Burr as  Burke
John Ireland as  Captain
Stephen McHattie as  Frank
Donald Pleasence as  Dr. Todd
Paul Koslo as  Willy
John Osborne as  Lyne
Richard Donat as  Ray
Cec Linder as  Milton

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Reviews

Cathardincu
1978/03/02

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

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Softwing
1978/03/03

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

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AutCuddly
1978/03/04

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

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Zlatica
1978/03/05

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

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duke1907
1978/03/06

Oliver Reed was one of the all time great drunks in fact he died of a heart attack in a bar after finishing 3 bottles of Captain Morgan's Jamaica rum, 8 bottles of German beer, and shots of Famous Grouse whiskey and Hennessy cognac, while also beating 5 Royal Navy sailors at arm-wrestling. He was 62. I was thinking of this the whole time I watched the movie because during the film he looked like he needed to get drunk in the worst way. I thought he was excellent as Jim Wilson a Canadian police detective on his last day who has to deal with a hostage situation. He looked like a cop. His hair had a little gray, but he still had that famous Oliver Reed barrel chest. What was good about the film is he isn't a Dirty Harry type of cop who shoots first and doesn't bother to ask questions. He is thoughtful and doesn't care for violence. Raymond Burr is good, Susan George is cute, and veteran John Ireland is excellent too. Doanld Pleasance gives a poor performance as does Stephen McHattie, but I recommend this film. It's not a great movie, but it"s good.

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lost-in-limbo
1978/03/07

Frank a young man returns back to his home town, after going away for a couple months for a job so he could earn money and marry his girlfriend Janie. When he goes to her apartment, someone else is living there now. He drops off at a bar, where he gets into a bloody fight and learns Janie works as a singer at an top-class resort and is actually seeing someone else. While being seriously injured, he comes face to face with her and wants to talk, but things get out of hand when a snooping police officer accidentally gets shot when making something big out of nothing. From this build up, a hostage situation cooks up, and Officer Jim Wilson (who's on his last day on the job) takes control and wants a peaceful result in front of a growing crowd of onlookers in this resort town, but everyone else on the force and important political figures want to see Jim dead.What to make of it? It's a hard one to decipher, because is pretty much a sweet and sour drama-thriller with an exceptionally first-rate cast to boot. On the other hand, the performances are very varied with considerately good to simply one-note. Oliver Reed looks tired, and that transcends to his dry and salty, but (for me) surprisingly engaging performance of Officer Wilson. Lead Stephen McHattie provides a tortured intensity to his confused character Frank and really drills the performance superbly. The seductively saucy Susan George is perfectly convincing as the greatly concerned Janie. The support roles are mainly underwritten and stereotypically painted. Paul Koslo's hot wired police officer Willy added much needed friction and spark, but the likes of John Ireland, Raymond Burr and a moping Donald Pleasence (very much wasted in a nothing role) are kept on the sideline.Director Peter Collinson's muscular touch to his execution is aggressive, sombre and completely hard-boiled. Fluidly uniformed photography has a poignant embrace, while the stirringly overdrawn soundtrack throws pretty much everything but the kitchen sink into it.Despite the bitter nature and foreboding build-up, the film never manages to sustain that tightness throughout. Leaving pockets that really do drag with overwrought or mainly wooden dialogues. Sometimes it emotionally engages with its raging and suspenseful vibe, but it does stretch out the siege for too long. It never feels like its going to take off with the large amount breaks (and very few active spurts) it takes in trying to cover all the character's bases. It tries to take time to look deeper at the two central characters in the siege, but then Reed's character takes most of the limelight, even though he doesn't do hell of a lot. Especially that he has time to have beer and admire the view! Everyone feels secondary, despite the well-intended performances.Sydney Banks and David Pursall's story has good groundwork, but faults do crop up and there's an unsteady charge when it mixes the seriousness of the situation with comical breaks involving wry humour from the watching crowd. It mainly doesn't come off (because it can get unintentional) and what about some of these pretty questionable actions. I liked that it stuck to a very glum conclusion and cut off straight from that point. The script is extremely chewy with a lot of activity and mainly has a biting attitude or simply falls flat. "Tomorrow Never Comes" is a long way from perfect, but the forcefully downbeat mood and nice array of notable performers lend largely to the looming curiosity of the exercise.

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whpratt1
1978/03/08

Viewed this film only because Susan George had an appearance and I am sure that the director and producer used her to bring people to the box office in 1978. In the early 1970's Susan George was a very hot and steamy actress from England who drew plenty of people to see her in "Straw Dogs" and many others. Stephen McHattie, (Frank) plays the role as a boyfriend and lover to Janie (Susan George) and just goes off and leaves her all by herself and then returns and finds out she is being a kept woman by a very rich man who owns lots of business enterprises in town. Raymound Burr, (Burke) makes a very brief appearance along with Oliver Reed, (Jim Wilson) and both give great supporting roles. There is a scene where Frank asks Janie to go take a shower and make herself clean and then a few close ups of Frank drying her off and telling her how much he loves her and asks her how could she ever sleep with another man. This film is not much of a story and is very drawn out right to the very END; it is only 68 minutes long.

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Jonathon Dabell
1978/03/09

I wrote in my review about The Penthouse (1967) that director Peter Collinson's favourite two themes were violence and aggression. This is another Collinson offering, and once again his emphasis seems to be on the more brutal elements of the story. Tomorrow Never Comes is a mediocre siege-thriller, helped by its surprisingly high calibre cast but hindered by its frequent reliance on viciousness. The story is essentially a rougher variation on an earlier French movie entitled Le Jour Se Leve. An unbalanced young guy, Frank (Stephen McHattie), goes bananas when he discovers that his girlfrind Janie (Susan George) has been unfaithful. He holds her hostage at gunpoint in a beach cabana, and his plight worsens when he shoots a cop who happens by. Local cop Jim Wilson (Oliver Reed) - on his last day in the job before retirement - must try to defuse the situation before someone else gets killed. Though the film is far from great, it still features a handful of taut moments. Also, the performances are pretty good, with McHattie, Reed, George and Donald Pleasance all in commanding form. Why did I use the word mediocre to describe the film earlier in this review? Well, unfortunately much of the good work is undone by Collinson's sour, nasty tone. The ending is somewhat grim and, while I don't always like happy endings, this film needed a light climax to relieve the claustrophobic siege scenes that had gone before. The pacing becomes problematic, with too much chat surplus to requirement at the points where excitement should be peaking. And beyond the four really strong leading performances mentioned above, there are an awful lot of weak and under-written supporting performances further down the cast list.

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