Product Details

• Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Ray McAnally, Alison Doody, Jeremy Child, Dearbhla Molloy
• Directors: Francis Megahy
• Writers: David Ambrose, Lyndon Mallet
• Producers: Allan Scott, Gavrik Losey, John Davis, Peter Shaw
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: January 13, 1998
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0792837762
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #429,247 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very original hero, September 8, 2002

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Kathy Bennett (Rocky Mount, North Carolina United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Taffin [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Though not a very popular movie with the public, this is a very interesting film starring Pierce Brosnan and Allison Doody. I own the DVD version, and it is very good. Though it is such a simple plot, I've never seen one like it. Never before have I seen a movie who's main character is a tough debt collector who stands up for the helpless in his small Irish town. When uncaring buisnessmen plan to build a power plant that would fill the town with pollution. Taffin uses all of his skills to battle the buisnessmen and help the towns people. Though I suppose it is an action movie, that is not its best advertisement. It is an original movie about a troubled debt collector helping his town.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Different Kind of Hero, March 9, 2001

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Mickey O'Neill (Metairie, LA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Taffin (DVD)

Brosnan is convincing as a man whose life has been derailed by doubt. He is a searcher for truth who makes his living collecting debts for merchants in a small Irish town. He places himself between small business owners trying to earn an honest living and those who would take advantage of their helplessness. When a large chemical company, with mob ties and friends high in government, begins construction of a plant which will pollute the environment and ruin the village, the townspeople hire him to fix the problem. He tries to explain that they will find his method of rectifying the situation unpalatable, but they insist that they can live with whatever he does. Interwoven in the plot is his search for truth and order in the chaos of modern life. All in all, this movie is one that can be enjoyed at numerous levels - intellectual, witty, adventurous, and all too real. You'll watch this one more than once!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Be Cool, Like Taffin, April 13, 2006

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Rude Boy 1979 "Ralph" (Today I'm in Ybor City) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Taffin (DVD)

I really really enjoyed it. As a matter of fact if I could re-watch Taffin vs any of Pierce's Bond flicks, I'd take Taffin any day. I am always entertained more by English films (or in this case Irish), than I am by most American films, they just seem more unpredictable because I don't know what to expect. Taffin has Pierce looking really cool (and he still is semi young so more believable as a killer to me), plus the eye candy is not too shabby in this one with some nice topless views that you wont get in a Bond film. Is it full of plot holes? Yeah big time, but Pierce kicks some ass his way and does it in a funny way. Its an American 60's crime flick thats light on the moral dialog, its just the bad corporation and the little townsfolk hiring their gunslinger to protect them. Pierce does it in a very sly way and doesn't resort to the kill until he has to. I see a LOT of low votes on this film on IMDB, they must hate English speaking foreign films (or they're psycho Lazenby Bond lovers out to besmirch all of Pierce's films, lol). Me, I liked the films Pierce did around this time, like Livewire and the Deceivers. I think I've liked most flicks Pierce has been in that I saw (one of those Bond flicks with a bad-guy taking over the internet or something was lame but any Bond flick is good or bad based on the bad guy not so much the Bond), and Taffin had me smiling, it was cool entertainment. Will I be buying the DVD, maybe used, the Arab channel I watched it on had the nudity but bleeped out the profanity, go figure, lol. Looking for a cool, mindless, Irish (!), action flick? Check out Taffin, I'm glad I did!