15/08/2014 The Film Review

against India. We will bind up the action from the European athletics

championship in syrup. `` roundup. On sports day at 630. `` in Z?rich.

Now time for the film review. Hello and welcome to The Film Review

on BBC News. To take us through this week's

cinema releases is Jason Solomons. This week neighbours versus

Twilight, Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce star in the river. The

outback of Australia. Then we look at, we do the time walk again, the

expendables three. Some new blood, and they will split. Can Simon Pegg

and Rosamond Pike find true happiness in Hector and the search

for happiness? Let's kick off with the rover and Guy Pearce making a

very long journey. The film is set in the outback in Australia. He

cannot tell if they are post`apocalyptic or last week or in

the near future. Mad Max is a kind of template. The film is called the

rover and it is set ten years after the collapse. I don't know what the

collapse is. England's middle order? It could be anything. There are long

straight roads, someone has stolen Guy Pearce's car, he wanted back, he

finds Robert Pattinson who says it is his brother 's car, so he takes

Robert Pattinson hostage and they chased the car in a car along a long

road occasionally having people shooting at them. Tell me where your

brother is. He's gone south, a long way from here. I'm just going to get

your T`shirt. Get up, we're leaving. That's what the lady says usually.

Get up. What was that sound? There is a car

coming. What car? I don't know. That is two cars. How long until they

here? And then it may be. Who is it? Get your rifle. Do you know them? Go

and get your rifle. I'm sensing some intensity. Yes, it is dropping and

mysterious and atmospheric. The director 's debut was a brilliant

Melbourne crime family drama called animal kingdom which is one of the

best debuts of this century so far. This is as follow`up, is its

difficult second album syndrome? Much greatness on display, a great

feel for the outback and the mountains. These to the sized score

we heard is excellent and airy. Guy Pearce is amazing. Robert Pattinson

isn't too bad either. `` it is eerie. It is like Steinbeck, mice

and men, and Lenny and George relationship. Robert Pattinson is a

bit overcooked. I'm not sure why he's American and what he's doing in

the outback. It starts off quite well then it keeps going and going

and driving and driving with that existential and Stephen Spielberg

does so well with two cars facing off against each other. Then it

leads somewhere, I don't want a spoiler but the ending is such a let

down it casts a pall over all of the good work done before. Then you

say, that is where they were going? I don't want to ruin it by the end

is not as good as it should've been. Guy Pearce has been on film

driving around Australia in the past, in Priscilla Queen of the

desert. This is clearly not Queen of the Desert. There are no frills. But

Guy Pearce is very good. I enjoyed the film, I was left with a great

frustration at the end, I found let down. You wanted a better ending.

Maybe we could do one. `` I felt. The expendables three. I don't know

if this has an ending. The ending is indistinguishable from the

beginning. Lots of old people who were in films in the 80s were some

new people blowing some stuff up. That is what they do, they blow

building up, run to another building, blow it up, come home,

make a bit, then go away again. There's a sort of story, Sylvester

Stallone and his group of action cronies, Jason stated who for some

reason is with the old guys but he is actually quite young. `` Jason

Statham. They recruit Mel Gibson and Wesley Snipes. I think it is

believed the only party is allowed in Hollywood, Mel Gibson, an evil

madman. `` part he is allowed. They go around the world recruiting some

new people to reboot the expendables franchise and then everyone blow

some more stuff up and they all go home. This can work if they don't

take themselves too seriously. That is the problem, I thought the first

one was rather fun. Statham Held his own rather well. In the second one

it was loopy" amusing. This is rather grim. It is a trial basis

difficult but there are bullets flying everywhere. I was shocked it

was a 12 A, it's one of the most violent things I've seen all year.

`` it is 12 A. You expect it to be funny, they don't really do that. I

think they got tired of it and they couldn't find any decent jokes to

say about having exploded 150 people in the port of Mogadishu. But I'm

sure there will be an expendables four. Hector and the search for

happiness. Tell us more. Simon Pegg who specialises in playing British

nerds from Shaun of the dead all the way to run Fat boy run and is last

year 's other worlds and, diminishing returns for this kind of

character. `` the world 's end. He plays a psychiatrist in a flat in

London and his girlfriend is played by was meant Pike. He decides he

doesn't know enough about anything and teeny to go around the world. ``

Rosamond. He dresses up like an idiot. That and needs to go around

the world. Can I please get the champagne from first class at

least? A decent one. This is an decent? Would you like a down or

memory foam pillow? Did you order a pillow? I forget, did I? I will have

two steal your bag. Of course, please do. Sorry, I'll get it. This

is like twister, though you've won. Oh, that's sweet. Oh look at that.

It's a gift from my other half, she snuck it into my bag and I didn't

know. Fill these pages. I will. I might have moved back into economy.

Who goes onto a plain like that with a rucksack and all of that jangly

stuff? `` a plane. It might be funny but no one really does that so it's

not truly funny. If you did that he would be chopped off the plane. No

one dresses like feeling. `` chocked. Rosamond Pike wouldn't go

out with someone dressed like that. `` chocked. He goes around the world

filling the book with doodles which appear on the screen sometimes,

making observations about what makes people happy. Then he goes to meet

Buddhist monks, he goes to Africa where everyone is either a dancing

villager who wants to have fun with him, or a kidnapping warlord. It is

kind of borderline racist in its idiocy. It casually sexist and

silly. The logic presumably is if you're psychiatrist and you go on a

search for happiness it helps you treat your patience. He says I don't

know enough to treat the patients but he doesn't really, he clocks up

lots of air miles but goes on hardly any journeys. I was fed up with him

quite early on, I found it very difficult film to stomach and I

think many people will too. Even though Simon Pegg is immensely

likeable he's not fully getting the character. I went ask if he finds

happiness because it might spoil the end, but I don't get the impression

that matters. What is the favourite one you would like to pick out? The

one I hope we can still find because I talked about it last week is a

film which is an Argentinian film about a Nazi doctor. I may have

given it away last week. He is on the run in

given it away last week. He is on the Patagonia and it is seen through

the eyes of the 12`year`old girl he starts treating. I found this

immensely exciting, thrilling and scary. Its images live on in my mind

in my nightmares ever since. You look in your notebook at this doctor

and you realise the experiment he's been doing in the 1940s in house

which have followed him here to Patagonia in the 1960s. `` house in

concentration camps. You feel that it probably did happen. The DVD,

that you can pick up very soon, what have I chosen? Calvary. Brendan

Gleeson. Giving probably, this year 's first Oscar nominating tight

performance. He plays a country Priest in Ireland, someone says they

will kill him. `` type. Which of the villages is it? He goes round trying

to square himself with his own morality with God. It is funny and

deeply moving and religious. A strange mix, but the humour is the

cover. Thank you for joining us. A quick reminder before we go you will

find more film news and reviews from across the BBC online including our

previous shows slash film. That is it for this week. Thank you for

watching and goodbye. Good evening, most of you have got

away with a drier day`to`day than the past few but there are still a

few showers, the odd heavy one today. Drifting off the Pennines

into the Midlands, out of East Wales. Quite a few just across parts

of Surrey, Sussex and Kent. The drift of those are southwards and