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day one of the second and decisive test`macro. That is coming up at

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6:30pm. Now on BBC News, it is time for The Film Review.

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Hello. Welcome to The Film Review. Here is Mark Kermode. What do we

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have this week? I am going to jump in, Jersey Boys. I am looking

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forward to this. We have got coming up, as you say, Jersey Boys. I know

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you have seen the stage musical and loved it. Then we have Chinese

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Puzzle, the third instalment of the ongoing international romance. And 3

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Days to Kill. Kevin Costner is back in action. Jersey Boys, you loved

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the stage musical. I adored it. As apparently did everyone who saw it.

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The minute the songs are on, they are up and dancing. This is an

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adaptation of the story of the four seasons directed on`screen by Clint

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Eastwood. He has directed the Charlie Parker biopic in the past.

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Clint Eastwood, rather than seeing it as a musical, he seems to see it

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more as a drama about four Street kids, some of whom who have seen the

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inside of the slammer. They have vague connections with characters

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who perhaps you would see in a movie like Goodfellas. Whilst there are

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the musical numbers, Clint Eastwood is more interested in the

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interaction between the characters and their background. Here is a

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clip. This is crazy. We have got to find a club. Want we want is a

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record contract. You cannot even booked a lousy bowling alley. You

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are in this group. Which one? Who are we going to be next, Tommy?

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Frankie. What? It is a sign, Tommy! I still like the four Felons. They

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are singing these close harmonies, voices of angels. There is a big

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thing of rock 'n' roll of people adopting an outlaw persona. In the

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biopic of Johnny Cash, his dad said, now you will not have to work so

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hard to make people think you have been to prison, after he has been

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arrested. They are making clean cut records in this film. I like the

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fact print is to ward is seeing it like a Goodfellas inflected story.

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What you lack is the love of the music `` I like the fact that Clint

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Eastwood is seeing it. You have to have an ear for that kind of bubble

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gum pop. I do. If you listen to the way those songs are used in other

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films, they really jump off the screen. Here, strangely enough, the

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musical numbers... It is a strange thing to say, but they are slightly

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flat. The drama is the interesting thing, the closeness to the

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underworld characters, the fact that they have dragged themselves up by

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their bootstraps. He is less interested in the records

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themselves. What really sold the stage show was how much people love

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seeing the numbers performed live. It is solid. It is not as special as

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perhaps it ought to be. It is however solid. Right. Now, Chinese

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Puzzle. It is the third instalment in this ongoing romance.

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Essentially, this works anyway before sunrise, Before Sunset Before

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Midnight. This time the action plays out in New York, Chinatown, he has

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been separated from his long`term partner and he wants to Beano his

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kids. He is helping a lesbian couple to have a child. `` he wants to be

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near. It is complicated, as he says. The film itself however is very

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light. Cappuccino philosophy. That said, it is rather charming. These

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characters have been around for a long time and they are well played.

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It has a lot of heart. It does not have a lot of depth despite the

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weird cameos from philosophers who wander in in a Woody Allen like

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weight to make philosophical jokes. Light, frothy, fun. Do you have to

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have seen the others? No. You can jump in. Despite the fact he says it

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is complicated, it is not that complicated. Kevin Costner, 3 Days

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to Kill. Do I know about this film a bit without having seen it? Sadly, I

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have been a Kevin Costner film in the past... This is directed by the

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man who directed Charlie's Angels. And also Terminator Salvation. He is

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a terrible director. Airheaded candy floss of the highest order. The

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story is Kevin Costner is a CIA hit man who has been diagnosed with a

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terminal illness, terminal cancer, and he goes to Paris in order to

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reconcile himself with his wife and daughter who we need to teach to

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ride a bicycle. He is contacted by an agent who tells him... Stick with

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me. She has a special new chemical that will make him better possibly

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if he killed a bunch of people for her. Really. Here is a clip.

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I can see you do not believe in the customary 48 hour window between

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pills. You only have three days left. `` between kills. I am not

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getting into your car. Not before I get a second opinion on whatever it

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was you gave me. I told you it was kosher. Now it is not. The manual

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says, if I cannot keep my heart rate low, the chip will act like a

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hallucinogenic. Keep your heart rate low. That is kind of hard with the

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job you have me doing. Get in the car. You noticed the scarf he was

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wearing, very important. He has sat there and thought, I am playing a

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conflicted character. I have got to kill a bunch of people. I am not

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making this up. The way he demonstrates this conflict in his

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life is he wears the scarf through the film to the point that you are

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transfixed by a tossed stop, the torture scenes. It is so empty and

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airheaded, it makes things like Waterworld seem profound. Kevin

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Costner doing sub Liam Neeson. Kevin Costner has done great work in the

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past. People make jokes about him. But he was a great screen presence.

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This is him attempting to turn himself into a big action star. The

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problem is that it is so stupid. Stupid in a way that it is kind of

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insulting. You are thinking, I am actually cross with this movie is

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for imagining for three seconds that I would buy into any of this. It is

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a real shame but it is really bad. Right. OK for top was likely?

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Crystal clear. He was very unshaven and so on but he looked extremely

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well. Exactly. Not like someone who had three days to live. Not like a

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Breaking Bad central figure. Best at question at I think Belle is the

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best movie out. It is terrific. `` best movie out? It is about the end

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of the slave trade and race relations but it is dressed up as a

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costume drama. A society romance. What the director has done is to

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take this very potent story and turn it into something that is very

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mainstream, very multiplex Frannie `` very important story. You could

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enjoy it like you would enjoy an adaptation of a Jane Austen novel.

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Beautifully directed. Very well played. A very fine film indeed.

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Well received. The reviews have been terrific. In some places in America

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it has outsold these Spiderman movie. Best DVD? This is Her, the

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Spike Jonze movie. A man falls in love with his computer operating

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system. When it came out, I was uncertain about it. It felt very

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clinical, like it did not have much emotional engagement. I want to

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watch it again because it looked absolutely beautiful and it is an

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interesting idea about artificial intelligence and the way in which

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people fake emotions. I am choosing this because I want to go back and

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give it a second go. I am sure it is one of those things that improves.

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The first time, I felt it was very cold. Maybe that is deliberate. If

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you are making a movie about someone who falls in love with a computer,

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maybe it is meant to be cold. I think it needs a second chance. Do

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you think in the short time when it was made and now, a lot of the

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things it talks about seem to be coming rushing towards us?

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Interactions with machinery... The story is as old as the hills.

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Science`fiction is always about people falling in love with their

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computers. There are episodes of TV series in which they do that basic

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idea. People make jokes about falling in love with their Saturn

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haves. `` satellite navigation. It wants to be more with that `` more

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than that. Thank you, as ever. You will find more film news and reviews

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from Mark on his BBC blog. That is it for this week. Thank you for

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watching. Goodbye. The weather is going to slowly

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change next week. Unusually, the weekend looks great. There will be a

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lot of dry weather around, no rain to speak of really. Good sunny

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spells too. It should feel pleasantly warm. All quiet at the

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moment

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