The characters are constructed to smoothly walk that line of good and bad, letting you know they’re capable of plenty without losing any likability at all. There’s a nicely mysterious and nefarious air lingering in the background which ups the risk factor. It’s paced extremely well and raises the tension and suspense as times goes on. It’s a pretty great example of what can be achieved in a brief amount of time. With the constant conversation about film runtimes these days, it’s almost unimaginable to have a feature coming in at just seventy minutes long but that’s what you get with The Flying Scot. Starring: Lee Patterson, Kay Callard, Alan Gifford, Margaret Withers, Mark Baker, Jeremy Bodkin, Gerald Case, Margaret Gordon, John Lee, Kerry Jordan and John Dearth. The train is carrying withdrawn bank notes from Scotland to London to be destroyed. As a result the film isn't filled with cheering crowds but rather focuses the isolation he experienced within Scotland in spite of his amazing achievements.Directed by Compton Bennett and written by Norman Hudis, Ronnie, earning very little from his own exploits, gathers together a band of villains to carry out a robbery on ‘The Flying Scotsman’ passenger train. Obree was never well known in Britain despite being very popular on the continent. Indeed the world record attempts are incredibly understated, as they should be. Equally the film doesn't embellish the truth a great deal in order to increase the drama. But by choosing to limit the time scale it describes it allows time for greater detail particularly in investigated his relationship with the priest and Obree's wife.
Naturally the constraints of a film mean that the Obree story is cut short and we don't see how the Superman position was banned or Obree's subsequent depressions especially after his brother died (indeed his brother is completely missing from the film). As a big cycling fan I was already well aware of the Obree story and I can assure people that is every bit as incredible if not more so than is shown in the film. But those sporty types will also find plenty to satisfy them. Those not interested in sport should not be put off by thinking this will be a typically superficial or one dimensional sports film. It maintains the acute acting and psychological fullness of a biopic, aided by a fantastic performance by Miller, while being in keeping with the Hollywood highs and lows aspects of great sports movies. What I found most enjoyable about this film is the way it straddles the sport-biopic genres.
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