'North Sea Hijack' (1980) – Andrew V. McLaglen.

Energetically shot by dynamic action director Andrew V. McLaglen and starring the silky suave acting icon Roger Moore, the tremendously exciting, brine-lashed 80s thriller 'North Sea Hijack' has a bracing Alistair Maclean vibrancy that has made this boisterous boy's own high sea adventure such an enduring fan favourite to this very day! Arguably one of Roger Moore's most colourfully idiosyncratic performances, and, perhaps, the film's strongest asset. Moore's boozily irascible, feline-fondling, aggressively misogynist military strategist Rufus Excalibur ffolkes is tasked a by an officious, somewhat reluctant Admiral Brindsen (James Mason) to expedite a viable pre-emptive stratagem to successfully neutralize a possible terrorist attack on a North Sea oil rig, a threat that very soon becomes an altogether nightmarish reality as demonstratively diabolical, ice-cool supervillain Kramer (Anthony Perkins) and his far from merry men do just that, and not long thereafter the excitement rapidly escalates to fever pitch as the eccentric ffolkes and his brutally efficient, fearsome frogmen fearlessly leap into defensive action! 

While this deliciously salty, off-shore shoot 'em up was almost scuppered upon its initial theatrical release by lukewarm reviews, happily, North Sea Hijack's more 'savoury' ingredients have simmered over time to form an agreeably testosterone rich and flavoursome Blu-ray feast! The pacey, explosive actioner myriad highlights include a host of enjoyably lusty performances, not the least of which being the glacially glowering Anthony Perkins and an especially nasty turn from a thickly-bespectacled Michael Parks as Kramer's sinisterly stern sidekick Shulman, but the entire film is expertly hijacked by Sir Roger Moore's positively majestic portrayal of the lovably cantankerous, moggy-coddling, terrorist thwarting, whiskey snorting anti-hero ffolkes! The suitably exhilarating score by maestro Michael J. Lewis excitingly provides a captivating complement to McLaglen's deliriously daredevil, potently adrenalized, deep sea shenanigans! 'Bond was a Folk hero, whereas Rufus Excalibur ffolkes doesn't give a double f what you make of him!!!!'