The Great Escaper

 You know when a movie starts off slow – three shots of wavescrashing in, a long shot of a man standing on a beach looking at the sea, more crashingwaves, the man in close up, and so on – that generally the pacing is going tobe off. There are ways to start slow and there are ways not to. If a movie doesn’tengage in the midst of its slowness, then it’s likely not going to engage fullstop.

Which is what happened with The Great Escaper,starring Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson as an elderly ...