10/05/2013 The Film Review


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Cup Final with me, Olly Foster on Sportsday at 6. 30 on BBC News.

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News. To take us through this week's releases is Mark Kermode. What have

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we got, you Trek fan you? We have Star Trek Into Darkness, the second

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reboot from JJ Abrams who pretty much reinvented the franchise. We

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have Dead Fall, a chilling neogothic thrill thriller and we have Mud

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which demonstrates that he is more than a pretty face, does Matthew

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McConnaghey. I've read all the stuff and Star

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Trek is aimed at people who don't normally go to those movies?

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franchiser didn't like it when he was kited and came to it very late.

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They wanted to keep those fans on board but to bring in a whole new

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generation of fans, people like you who never got it. So they invented

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this interesting thing whereby the whole history exists but here is

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another one. The two can coexist. Star Trek Into Darkness. You must

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have seen some of the old Star Trekkers? They were a bit talky for

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me. A bit of whizz (BANG) And a bit of Star Wars, that's going to cause

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trouble. JJ Abrams is about to go and do the Star Wars movie and he

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feels like you do, that it was a bit talky. In the case of the new movie,

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there is discussion and colonialism versus pacifism and imperialism. In

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the new movie, all the conversations are had in the middle of massive

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explosions. This is a film that begins with Spock in the middle of a

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volcano and goes up from there. Here On the bridge... We still have

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contact. Spock? ! I've activated the device, Captain when the countdown

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is complete, render the volcano inactive. I need to bring Spock back

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to the ship. Give me one way to do it? Maybe if we could have a direct

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line... You are talking about an active volcano. If that things

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erupts, I can't guarantee... The enterprise is too large. Nobody

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knows the rules except you but there has to be an exception? Uerks none.

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The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. We are talking

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about your clief! -- life. Who 'd have thought those two in the same

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clip. Fantastic. That's the tone of the movie. Obviously the original

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series was constantly about current affairs, Vietnam and race relations

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and class issues. This has a back throw which is about terrorism, but

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all those debates are held in the middle of absolutely full on turned

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up to 11 actions. When you were watching that clip you were laughing

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but not dericively, you were enjoying it. Definitely.Scotty's

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saying, we can't do it, you cannot change the law of physics, and the

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one thing that JJ Abrams knows how to do is to give you spectacle. In

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The narratively slightly less satisfying, but for the most part,

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Benedict Cumberbatch is fantastic and he holds the camera brilliantly.

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He has a great deal of spookiness about him in his roles and you can

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imagine this would come through and it would be perfect for him? But he

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has to play with your sympathies. Half way through the movie, you

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start thinking, I understand that and qst a question about

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imperialism, colonialism and pacifism. All that's going on.

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Buildings fall down and planets are blown up, nuclear reactors are

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wuered together with bits of string, so you come out of it thinking it's

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largely surface but what surface. JJ Abrams knows how to make things look

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good and has an infch weighs with lens flair. This isn't a single shot

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that's not drenched with lens flair and it's been retro fitted into 3 D

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-- infatuation with lens flair. Dead kl fall? A strange concoction.

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It's a neogothic chilling thriller starting off with a brother and

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sister, they've come out of a job that's gone wrong, they are heading

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towards the Canadian border and heading towards a cabin in which

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Sissy Spacek and Kris Kristofferson, great acting where they are going

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to, and in the course of their escape, all these weird plot threads

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intertwine, there's violence, comedy, shock and essentially family

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strangers. Any movie that features snow features dead bodies and a

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female policewoman. Fargo isn't like this, but this has the pulp pulpy

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edge to it. Bana was very good and Spacek and Kris Kristofferson is

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good. It's trashy but it knows why and it's enjoying itself. We talked

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about Star Trek, this is super ripe and I enjoyed it a lot more than I

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thought I would. It's not going to stay around for a long time but I

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thought it was really good fun. Talking about conversions. Matthew

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McConaug He r I thought was an idiot, then I saw killer Joe and

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thought it was great. Everyone thought the same, he did Magic Mike

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and now Mud. Two boy boys that live on the river, they find this

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deserted island where there is a boat up in a tree, been put there by

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a storm years ago, they want to use it as a tree house but it's already

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being used by his Mud. Here is a clip.

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I was going to see where that got me this afternoon. It never tasted so

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good! Why do you have that pistol? Protection. Don't need toe be afraid

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of me. Got two ways to protect myself out here. This shirt and this

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pistol. There are fierce powers in the world, good, evil. Us men have

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to take advantage when we can. You coming?

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An interesting clip that. Set out the themes of the flil. It's about

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manhood and about boys becoming men. It's a boy-type film. Huckleberry

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Fin and Mississippi, maul boy. Actually, the director who did

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shotgun stories and take shelter, he's great at location, you can feel

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and hear the swamp and smell the trees and I love that about his

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work. Those two kids are brilliant as well. There have been comparisons

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made to Stand By Me because one of them looks like River Phoenix from

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Stand By Me. It's performance-led. Matthew McConaughey's found his

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second act and it's a film about atmosphere and relationships. It's

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not perfect but is an interesting boys to men film with a strong sense

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of setting and yet more proof that Matthew McConaughey's got a great

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future ahead of him, after everyone was saying he was done. You loved

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Killer Joe? Yes, he's the per son fifation of evil in that. Everyone

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said is there a scene in which he takings his shirt off? Yes, but it's

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not a taking his shirt off kind of film. Thank goodness for that. In

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The Fog is the best of the week for you? Yes, set in Belarus. It has

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echoes of loyalty and betrayal and what it means to collaborate and in

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the way that all war movies do, it's about ideas and conflict and human

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suffering. It's not an action movie, it's a tough watch, but a tough

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watch that's fully rewarding and it has a haunting atmosphere. We were

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talking about the atmosphere of that film. It has a strong sense of place

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and you feel like it's dealing with weighty issueses, although it's a

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personal drama. The fog is the moral fog of who's doing the right thing?

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds

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The moral fog and literal fog. You can der spret the title in many ways

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but it nods towards the fog of war -- interpret. The Impossible?Yes,

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extraordinary story, a real life story about this family.

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