SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

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.

thechidz Not since Olivier kicked the bucket some time in the 80's has a talent of such obvious majesty graced Britain's thespianic firmament. Phil Collins' performance as Great Train Robber Buster 'Buster' Edwards will surely go down in the annals of movie history when the final chapter of that weighty tome is written.From the moment he throws a brick at a window to steal a suit, to the final shot walking along a bridge with that woman from The Victoria Wood Show, Collins holds the attention of the viewer in a way not seen since De Niro's towering central performance in Taxi Driver. Or Frank Spencer's equally towering performance as 'Frank Spencer' in Condorman.Superb ... can't wait for Buster 2: On The Rocks where he hangs himself in a garage.

Lee Bengough I think Buster is a great film. Phil Collins and Julie Walters are great. I only seen the film for the first time this week and I really enjoyed it and I will never get board of it. I thought it was great when he was running about with that dummy so he could have the suite for a funeral which he turned up late for and then he stole the flowers. I think they picked the right man to play Buster Edwards and the right women to pay June Edwards. After all that hassle he had and then got sent down for 15 years he was still on about that dream which he left sunny Mexico for foggy cold and dirty old London and for his family and that made it a happy ending. He broke the law but he was a nice robber.

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.