The Nice Guys, Me Before You, Race The Film Review

medals and why Ian Poulter's foot could end his Ryder Cup hopes. That

is coming up at half past six. Now it is 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 Anna Smith.

We have got the nice guys, a crime comedy caper set in 1977 LA starring

Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe. Then we have got Me Before You, a British

we be based on a novel and stars Emilia Clarke. Finally Race, the

story of Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics. Nice guys I am a devoted

and I want to see if Ryan Gosling can do, Lake. He really can. I

thought he was very funny. It is from Shane Black. He brought us kiss

kiss bang bang. It is the story of a Private eye, Ryan Gosling and

Russell Crowe who is a heavy. They team up for an intriguing plot to do

with pawn stars and missing young women and corrupt politicians and

when they first meet, the Russell Crowe character is hard to beat up

Ryan Gosling. You are a Private investigator? There is 20 bucks.

Take it. Do you want to know why I am here? We can do it the easy way

or the hard way. Old lady hardly to find her knees. They just gave up

your client. You just gave her up. I thought that is what you wanted. Now

I am very sorry that you did not get the message. I do get.

What about now? Give me your left arm. Your left arm, give me yet. No!

No! Look, when you're talking to your doctor, tell them you have a

spiral fracture of the left radius. Deep breath. Do you mind if I have

an apple? I am afraid I laughed all the way through. It is funny and I

am surprised that Russell Crowe was so funny. I do not know if he was

ever funny. They try to make him funny in a good year. He is meant to

be as misanthropic as a heavy. It works for him, playing a gruff guy

compared to the slightly effeminate that big a effeminate Ryan Gosling.

It is business for him. Self-diagnosis heavy. Honour amongst

thieves. They play off each other well. They go to crazy parties in

the LA hills, pool parties with pawn actors, a great scene where Ryan

Gosling jumps into a tank full of mermaids. He says he had to question

them. Some great one-liners, cult potential. The plot was a bit

convoluted. It felt it had about three false endings. If it was

shorter, it would have been better. For fans of Carl Hyacinth who writes

about these bad guys, who are quite funny, it sounds like a hit. I think

will be. Me Before You. This is a British film based on a novel which

is a weepy about a young girl played by Emilia Clarke who goes to work

for a stern gentleman played by Sam Claflin. He is a quadriplegic,

injured in an accident and it is about the romance that develops

between the two of them. It is a familiar story, it reminded me of

the sound of music in that the innocent young girl and the very

wealthy older man getting together. It did get me in the end, it is an

emotional experience but on the way it is terribly clunky. Emilia Clarke

from game of thrones, trying to do this, the act. He seems to be in a

drama. The director does her best but she is better known for theatre

and I felt this did not come together as an melodrama or a

comedy. This is the Friday night gender divide movie time, because

any bloke going with his girlfriend or wife and he sees that, will

immediately say, at the scene The Nice Guys? Ryan Gosling is in it! I

do not think any gentleman would be interested in that. I would rather

see The Nice Guys. It is for young girls who enjoyed the likes of the

fault in their starters. It delivers on a very basic manipulative level.

I do not know they still do them, at the American voice-overs for

trailers were some guy says you will not be afraid to cry. I am afraid to

die -- cry. Res. This is the story of Jesse Owens who won four gold

medals at the Berlin Olympics. It takes us from 1933 when he was just

trying to make it as an athlete and he is being coached by Jason

Sudeikis. Here is a clip. Do you want to win a gold medal? Sure. Do

you want to do it in Berlin? Unless you were planning on waiting. You

know, I heard they do not care much for coloured folk. They do not care

for the much here in Columbus either. Will that be a problem? No,

sir. I just came here to run. Then for the next 28 months, you're

either in a classroom or on that track, every hour, every day, and I

do not care about your grades. I do not care about your buddies and I do

not care as you have a girl at home, rolling down silk stockings with

that look in her eye. We have a saying,. -- yes. Go home and get

some rest, 9am tomorrow, we will see how good you really are. I felt this

was an extraordinary story but it is an ordinary film. It is told in a

plodding fashion. It is very slow. It comes into its own towards the

end when you get to the Olympics seems. I felt that was more in this

story, so many issues regarding race, this was a time when was a

conversation about whether America should even go to the Olympics,

because of Hitler and then Jeremy irons comes in as a member of the

Olympic Committee, all that is interesting in theory, in practice,

it was not told in a riveting fashion. That is disappointing.

First of all, it is not a sprint, 134 minutes long, when you hit two

hours, you start to flag a little bit unless there is a degree of

genius. As you may have seen, that was not the worst, a lot of the

dialogue is so familiar and I felt I was watching actors reading a script

rather than his life actually coming to life. If you want to learn about

him, there is plenty to say. It touched on it there, the fact is

that people of colour as it was described in the film, in Columbus,

Ohio, were not terribly popular. Nazi Germany was different and we

know what happened subsequently, but the 1936 games, it was difficult for

any black athlete to compete, but it was pretty difficult for them to

train in the US as well, even the Army was segregated. It does show

it, but not in a particularly interesting ways. The pep talks, the

motivational speeches all seemed familiar. It touches on interesting

things, perhaps the most effective scene is when he comes home, he

comes home and he had a ceremony where he is asked to go around the

tradesman 's entrance. There are moments like that that ring true.

The spectacle, Berlin, 1936 and Hitler, did that work? That is the

one that worked, they filmed it in the stadium and it is gripping. It

is worth hanging in there for the final sprint. Come in late. Your

best is a bit of Jane Austen. Love Friendship, very sparky and funny.

Kate Beckinsale plays Lady Susan Vernon who is a mischievous widow

and very glamorous who goes to the country to make merry with her

relatives. It introduces a great actor, Tom Bennett, an eligible

bachelor in terms of his money but not his character. There is a lot of

buffoonery. This is a you certificate, but it is very adult in

ways. It is all said. Jane Austen. Witty script. Your DVD, goose bumps.

This is a children's film. It is one you could sit down to with the kids

and enjoy. Jack Black stars as the author of the stories, they are real

stories, written by RL Stine. They fictionalise the author and make him

into a creepy character and it is a good idea, the idea is that his

books come to light, they are under lock and key but his daughter and

the boy next door find them and suddenly the abominable snowman is

running riot. It sounds quite like timber trim. It is not. Originally

he was going to be involved. How Young Kenny get away with? It is a

PG. Thank you. A quick reminder before we go that

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weekend, it looks like the weather will be warming up, we will get some

sunshine, many of us have enjoyed sunshine in the last few days, it

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