What a turkey!

[TightEnd]

I'm a film buff, like to see a couple of new films a week.

I've spent a few days in Walsall. Now as those of you who have had to spend time in Walsall know, apart from the casino, the cinema and the Village Hotel leisure club, leisure options are severely lacking.

An ideal opportunity to wile away those early afternoons catching up in the Showcase, rather than sitting around swapping poker stories. They were exclusively saved for late afternoons.

So I'd done Casino Royale (enjoyable nonsense, disappointing poker), The Departed (enjoyed greatly, DiCaprio outacting Damon) and Click (awful, lazy and puerile) and couldn't bear the possibility of Open Season and Hoodwinked, the animated kids stuff.

There was one movie left unseen and £4.50 and a small cup of diet pepsi the size of a communal bath later (bargain at £2.50) I was sitting in the back row waiting. Iwas the first one into the cinema indeed.

Twenty minutes later, as the film started, I was still the only one in the cinema. Not a good sign.

Two hours later I knew why. I had just watched the most risible turkey of a film I had ever watched. Devoid of any redeeming qualities I was left wondering how on earth it ever got made.

The title: Heroes and Villians

The Synopis: Foppish and ineffectual hooray henry stuck in dead end job is sharing London flat with token fat guy, token Asian, and token "lad". He leaves and sets up a business in which he snoops on men/women who their partner fear might be unfaithful. He sets them up in sting operations. Amazingly he clears £70,000 in profit in his first month. Meanwhile he finds love, but falls out with token mates before all are reconciled at the end.

It is garbage. All the characters are one dimensional, unappealing and poorly acted. The movie is full of hackneyed discourses on the moral rights of the business he has set up. Just when you think it cannot get any worse it does when the impossibly posh Jenny Agutter turns up as central character's mum living in a mobile home park in the shadow of a nuclear power station somewhere on a bleak coast. A worse case of miscasting in British cinema I am struggling to think of.

Still, Jenny Agutter. Perhaps there is one redeeming quality after all. Miscasting is sometimes good.

Why this film was not a straight to video I have no idea. Don't go to see it. Don't buy the DVD.

It is horrendous.
     
Rant over.

[Sheriff Fatman]

I had just watched the most risible turkey of a film I had ever watched.

I challenge you to watch Rancid Aluminium and then stand by this statement!

[thetank]

Still, Jenny Agutter. Perhaps there is one redeeming quality after all. Miscasting is sometimes good.

I was still the only one in the cinema.

You coulda had a tug.

[TightEnd]

 

no idea what you are on about!

[Rod Paradise]

Still, Jenny Agutter. Perhaps there is one redeeming quality after all. Miscasting is sometimes good.

I was still the only one in the cinema.

You coulda had a tug.

Why do you need to be the only one in the cinema?

[Colchester Kev]

I wont have a bad word said against "Click" it passed some time on the long flight recently. 

A shit rip off of "Its a wonderful life" perhaps, but inoffensive and watchable never the less


Did you notice how i managed to leave the word "Singapore" out of this post ??   DOH !!!!

[77dave]

i recently watched the departed    excellent movie with great acting     cant figure out the reasoning of the name of the title though


i also watched bond this week  enjoyed very much   ignored the poker scenes   if it wasnt for the aston martin and judi dench ( and maybe his name)  you couldnt tell it was a bond movie  where was Q
i will be watching the next installment

[Snatiramas]

I am  sorry but until you have watched the "road to Welville" you do not know what movie suffering is.

[Tonji]

Just listened to Dr Kermode (one of the few film critics I take any notice of) on Radio 5, he recommends Pan's Labyrith by Guellermo del Toro, I loved The Devil's Backbone, one of his previous films.

Check out the trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q17wTd5QSQY

[snoopy1239]

Can't wait for Pan's Labyrinth. Looks awesome.

[lynx5.0]

Still, Jenny Agutter. Perhaps there is one redeeming quality after all. Miscasting is sometimes good.

I was still the only one in the cinema.

You coulda had a tug.

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