YMMV / Plunkett & Macleane

• Awesome Music:
  • Craig Armstrong is truly epic throughout. The scores apex is reached during the final act, making an already great scene awe inspiring. Hear it for yourself.
  • The track ("Escape") would go on to become Recycled Trailer Music, The Patriot (2000) and Spider-Man 2 standing out.
• Complete Monster: Thief Taker General Chance is a sadistic thug of a lawman who enforces the justice system by brutally torturing all those who fall into his clutches. With a fondness for gouging out the eyes of his victims, Chance subjects the partner of thief Will Plunkett to this as he does many others before sending them to swing on the gallows or more torture. With a lust for Lady Rebecca Gibson, Chance murders her uncle to frame the heroes and assaults Rebecca, stopping himself from raping her solely because he judges she has not been sufficiently hurt or broken enough for his taste. To fully destroy her, Chance decides to hang James Macleane, the man Rebecca loves, while forcing her to watch all the while and meets his demise trying to torture a seemingly wounded Plunkett.
• Critical Dissonance: Lambasted by film critics, but regular audiences were far more lenient.
• Cult Classic: Poor reviews and even poorer box office, but gained a following by mid-00s thanks to home media release and countless TV re-runs.
• Moral Event Horizon: Lest you worry about rooting for outlaws, mere minutes in General Chance tortures a dying man and rams his thumb into his eye. Cementing his place as a villain and monster.
• Nightmare Fuel: Eye Torture anyone?
• Signature Scene: Plunkett rescuing Macleane from the gallows.

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