Certainly engaging, intelligent and compelling at times but not quite good, consistent or believable enough for the wealth of praise heaped upon it.
Archives for August 2011
Eden Lake
If you go down to the woods today… you might get tortured and set on fire by teenagers.
The Inbetweeners Movie
Entertaining and funny if not amazingly clungetastic.
Conan the Barbarian
This fantasy remake offers more than enough action but without a plot or any charactersation whatsoever to back it up, Conan fails to grace the heights of the early-Nineties cartoon.
The Day of the Jackal
Not to be confused with the fairly awful Nineties reimagining, The Day of the Jackal is a marvellously stylish and classy thriller from Frederick Forsythe, the master of suspense.
Fitzcarraldo
A glorious tale of what you can do with you put your mind (and a few hundred slaves) to a task that includes the South American jungle, an opera obsessed nut and an inconsiderately placed mountain.