This dated spin-off from the popular 1970s TV series has Flying Squad detectives Regan and Carter tackling jet-set bank robbers whose ill-gotten gains finance their Mediterranean lifestyle. John Thaw and Dennis Waterman reprise their TV roles and struggle with material that would barely fill a 50-minute episode, let alone a cinema feature. However, it's certainly more violent than its small-screen cousin. Familiar faces to watch out for in the support cast include Denholm Elliott and Nigel Hawthorne.

The plot is set on a group of bank robbers, who are both violent and successful, strangely getting away each time with an amount around the £60,000 mark, and often leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill their own team, to get away. As Jack Regan himself puts it after the first raid in the film: "I've never seen so many dead people". Armed with gold-plated Purdey shotguns, they evaded Regan and the Flying Squad for quite some time, before Regan finds encouragement from his Detective Chief Superintendent who was sent down for corruption because Jack wouldn't testify in court for him.