You've never truly seen Sean Connery act until you've see him act for Sidney Lumet, a regular collaborator and the director to get hands-down the best performances out of Connery. And every one of their four collaborations, without fail, saw Connery play a character with a sinister side. This sinister side is nowhere more obvious than in The Offence, a film in which Connery beats a rape suspect to death in the opening minutes, with the catch being that Connery is playing the copper who's supposed to be interrogating. Connery's Detective Sergeant Johnson is just about as fearsome a cop as they come, dishing out violent justice at work as carelessly as he does at home to his eternally-nervous wife. In this oppressively grim depiction of England by New Yorker Lumet, still most bleak is Connery's portrayal of a man made borderline-evil by the indecency he witnesses every day. Fans of the awful Connery fashion sense will find lots to enjoy in the ungodly moustache 'n' tweed combo, however.
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