Eddie_weinbauer Phill can't act worth 2 cents. The robbery is over in the first 15-20 minutes after that it's really only down hill. Hiding from the law,cause they've ben careless leaving clues behind And when they finally escape to Acapulco.All Busters wife does is complain,nag nag nag about how she miss fish and chips and yada yada.As usual with movies like these,the never point the finger at the wife.Who always wanted something better than what they had. She act like her husband isn't a wanted man back home in england. *****spoilers'******** Even worse,he leaves Acapulco cause he can't stand being without his naging wife,who left him for england. So he goes back to england and ofc get arrested

loveagoodstory Despite good acting from a good cast, including Larry Lamb, Julie Walters and Phil Collins, the script is just too slow. The story is almost automatically interesting but a lot of points in it seem to be laboured and use multiple scenes to make the same point For example, 'June doesn't like Mexico' is gone over and over with no subtlety. It couldn't be done in fewer scenes because that part would look rushed, it just needed better- written scenes with more content than just the one point. The incidental music (not Phil's) doesn't really help, sounding like its trying to drum up atmosphere rather than help create it. All in all, it probably deserves a lot of the feeble 'greatest crime is that is got made' jibes thrown at it. Its still an interesting account of the robbery. But it comes from a time when British films started on recent period drama again and we got more and better films thrown our way, such as 'Scandal' and 'The Krays'. That led to 'Heartbeat' and the circle to the dark side truly was complete.

Rob Never in a million years would a film about a great train robber be so heartbreaking. I remember seeing Buster in the 80's as it was a film that was played a lot during my childhood but it had been some time since I saw it last when I came across the DVD free in the Sunday newspaper so I was quick to get it and re live some memories. Sadly the only thing I cold remember of the film is the music and I don't just mean the songs written and performed by Phil Collins, the actual score was fantastic and very suited to the movie and is definitely worth remembering. Another shock was how god an actor Phil Collins is. He plays Buster down to a tea and manages to hook you in with his sympathetic but inglorious performance.Buster and his wife June are down on their luck with the life they lead. Buster refuses to go out and make an honest living, he only believes in making money the con artist way and this is where the plan comes together for what would be known later as The Great Train Robbery. Not long after the robbery, the police are on the hunt for all who took part and its not long before they have everyone in their grasp apart from Buster and his partner in crime Bruce. This makes them both flee to Acapulco with June later joining him. The story isn't anything special, its more biographical and just follows what we know about the man himself and it's the starts of the movie Phil Collins and the great Julie Walters that keeps us watching what becomes of these people who we can really relate to.The movie has heartbreaking moments with a Phil Collins catalogue to support it, I don't know how anybody can ever say a bad word about the movie because it is flawless but at the same it isn't a masterpiece either. its just a nice film which is very watch able and makes you feel good in the end.

lespike Just tracked Buster on DVD (for £4 - bargain, or so I thought, more of that later) and gave it a watch today, to be delighted all over again from the last time I saw it, which must have been a few years ago!The film manages to capture the essence of the 60s, and delivers it over to the audience, in a style which I thought was very convincing. Don't listen to your friends when they kick up a fuss about seeing this film because it's got Phil Collins in, ignore it, he can act and does very well in the movie. A mention should also be given to the ever dependable Julie Walters, who yet again gives a solid performance.While on the subject of Julie Walters, I really like the opening scenes in Acapulco (with nice music from Four Tops behind the flying shots over Mexico) as it shows you in an instant that the character of Julie Walters is never going to fit into her environment, as she can be seen wearing dreary colours, a head scalf, thick coat etc and has nothing to match the elegance of the country and it's people. Although Julie Walters can be seen to fit into her forced situation as the scenes in Mexico progress (shown nicely in her choice of clothing I think) you can see she is never really comfortable with it, and her departure back to England was always going to happen.The film also seems to be accurate to the story of the 63 Great Train Robbery, except for two point, the driver of the train (Jack Mills?) wasn't shown to be as serious hurt as he was by the gang, and Buster also slaps his wife in the Mexico market scene, something the real life Buster has been quoted as saying he would never do, or never did such a thing.Still don't let this (or the funny (not haha) ending) overshadow your opinion on the movie, truly is a goodun.Oh and there is a DVD release doing the rounds at the moment, that really is not worth it, as it presents the film in a badly transferred 14:9 image within a 4:3 frame which just looks dull and awful. Go for the proper DVD release in it's glorious 1.85:1 aspect ratio.