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Hamish MacBain

Sexy Beast on Paramount+ review: cartoonish gangsters and geezers prequel all feels a bit too Guy Ritchie

Well, fans of Jonathan Glazer’s cult classic film from 2000 can relax on one front: the orange swimming trunks are back, present and correct in an almost identical opening shot.

I’m hesitant to call a pair of orange swimming trunks iconic, but if anyone remembers anything about the original Sexy Beast it is usually Ray Winstone’s orange swimming trunks. Well, that and the boulder. But they couldn’t really have done the boulder, could they?

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