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Screenwriters: John Orloff (Band of Brothers) and John Collee (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)
Director: Zack Snyder (Watchmen)
Actors: Emilie de Ravin (Public Enemies), Helen Mirren (The Queen), Hugo Weaving (The Matrix), Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl), Jim Sturgess (21) and Sam Neill (Event Horizon)
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Labels: Emilie de Ravin, film, Geoggrey Rush, Helen Mirren, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, movie trailer, Sam Niell, Zack Snyder
posted by Michelle Obama's Left Nut at 9:00 AM
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Competently directed and well acted, this film about young thug from Belfast in the 1980's who infiltrates the IRA to gather information for the British cops asks a bit too much. Yes, the audience is given a clear look at life in the conflicted city and the horrors that became a daily occurrence during the conflict. However, the audience isn't given a hero they can fully back nor a storyline that is engaging enough to warrant sitting through all of the misery on screen.
Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe, 21) is a solid actor and is well cast as the thieving Martin, the young man who becomes a mole. Too bad his praise-worthy performance is buried in the mix. Director Kari Skogland is a good director, but it seems the cursory elements, the locations, side conflicts, the need to explain the history, got in the way of her storytelling.
This isn't a film I'd advise searching out. If it is available, you may want to give it a look however.
Cautions: This film presents sexual situations, gory violence and plenty of foul language.
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Labels: Ben Kingsley, film, Jim Sturgess, movie review, Rose McGowan
posted by Michelle Obama's Left Nut at 2:00 PM
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Watch this thing and tell me what the movie is about. No, tell me WHY you should go out of your way to watch the movie. The whole point of a trailer is to capture my attention and make be believe I have to see this film. Other than the idea that some guy has crossed some line and he can't "turn back" (whatever that means) there is no other information. Oh wait, there's some fire. I know there's fire. And Gandhi is wearing a wig.
So, we have a guy walking over lines without turning back while there's fire near a hairy Gandhi. The more I write, the more this is starting to sound like something I'd be interested in seeing.
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Screenwriter: Kari Skogland (The Stone Angel)
Director: Kari Skogland
Actors: Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast), Rose McGowan (Planet Terror), Kevin Zegers (The Jane Austin Book Club), Jim Sturgess (21) and Natalie Press (Cass)
Labels: Ben Kingsley, film, Jim Sturgess, movie trailer, Rose McGowan
posted by Michelle Obama's Left Nut at 5:00 PM
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posted by Michelle Obama's Left Nut at 10:12 AM
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