He also absolutely does not have a clue about The Long Good Friday which is about the fact that Hopkins consistently misreads the situation as traditional gang warfare which he knows he can win at, and where the drama is in the unfolding realisation (where, for once, the audience and, indeed, the Helen Mirren character are a jump ahead of the protagonist) that the situation he thinks he's in is completely different from that he's really in, and he has absolutely no idea how bad the shit is that's coming down. It's more like Bacchae than anything else.