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Hello, welcome to the film review on BBC News. To take us through this

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week's releases, Mark Kermode. We have Blue Ruin, made on a very low

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budget. We have Pompeii, the story of... Pompeii. And Vesuvius. And we

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have Bad Neighbours. Seth Rogan and Zach Efron are Bad Neighbours. Blue

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Ruin, on this programme, we like cheap movies that turn out to be

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rather good. Blue Ruin is a very interesting case. Jeremy Saulnier is

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the director. This is not a goofy horror comedy at all. We start and

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meet a homeless man, who is having a bath in somebody else's house. He

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escapes through a window. We see him getting food from a dumpster, almost

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completely wordless. Early on in the film, a policewoman turns up and

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says he needs to come to the station because she needs to tell him

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something. Here's a clip. Joo`Ho I apologise for the mystery. `` I

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apologise for the mystery. I don't mean to scare you. You're not in any

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trouble. Everything's fine. You'll be fine. Somebody brought this by

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our stoop. I just thought you should be somewhere safe when you found

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out. With somebody. He's going to be released. I don't know how much you

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may have missed. It's an awful thing he did to them. I'm just going to

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hold your hand for a little while. Wow. 20 seconds this afternoon and

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have you the creeps already. Exactly and 20 minutes of the film and you

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actually cover the territory that most revenge thrillers would take

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their whole running time for. Somebody is out of prison. He goes

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looking for a weapon. Have you a sense of was going to happen. 20

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minutes in, they've covered that ground. Rather than being interested

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in rehashing what's gone before, the director is interested in what

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happens next. The interesting thing about Blue Ruin is it's a stripped

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down, very gruelling, very powerful thriller played really well. What's

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interesting about it is you hear so many times people making this kind

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of movie saying, well, the message is that violence cupts and vengeance

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is not good. But they spend 90 minutes enjoying the violence and

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vengeance, oh, but it's all about. Blue Ruin is compared to the work of

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the Cohen brothers, but it offers a genuinely broken antihero, somebody

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who is weak, somebody who is scared. You saw the look of terror on his

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face. It's a film which doesn't give the audience the standard pleasures

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of a revenge movie but it is beautifully told. The first 20

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minutes is almost worldless. It's like watching a silent movie. It's

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all to do with economy of story telling. It was a really, really

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fine work. As I said from the director's previous film, you'd have

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no idea it was the film he was going make next. What's fascinating is

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talking to people that are fans of mainstream cinema, horror fans,

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across the board, everyone has had the same reaction as you did. Also,

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having heard of none of these actors, the performances are pretty

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obviously amazing. Yes, Macon Blair is amazing. He has an encounter a

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razor and fresh set of clothes and then emerges Aymar strange `` as a

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strange, withdrawn character who is not think of as an avenging angel.

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He has a terrible thing in his past attempting to come to terms with the

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expanding violence behind him. If you want a straightforward thinker,

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you get that. If you want something which is philosophical very offing

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into the issues `` delving into the issues of the right to bear arms is

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part of the key part of the country's ethos is in there. It's

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really impressive. I was hoping Pompeii was about Up Pompeii as a

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remake. Tlncht is a bit of Frankie Howerd because this is enormously

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camp. This is pall WS Anderson's second Best Film. The first being

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Event Horizon. We have Kit Harington, who is a gladiator and he

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wants to have a relationship with Emily Browning. They're torn apart

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because he's a gladiator and she's a noble woman. This is a build up to

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the fact that about an hour in, Vesuvius explodes. Being a Paul WS

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Anderson film, chuck in everything and the chicken sink, everything

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explodes. I saw it in 3D, the volume up to 11. The best thing about this

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it is completely stupid, but it's laughably stupid in a good way. I

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think you're laughing with, it rather than at it. The time doesn't

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feel boring or dreary. It's feels like if you were a kid in the 70s

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watching this, you'd go, wow, look at the size of those explosions!

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Everything is turned up to Elevnety stupid. Kit Harington knows what

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he's doing, he's the gladiator and it's all there. It's exactly what

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you want and we're seeing exactly what you said. There's no surprise.

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The volcano is going to to explode. Do know what the plot is. Bad

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Neighbours, we don't know what happens. Zac Efron, there was a film

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called Neighbours. Bad Neighbours is the gag where they switched the role

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around, they lived next this one, they live next door to each other

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and tear each other around. Seth Rogan realises that Zach Efron who

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has played clean`cut roles and now it's going to be a frat house. What

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are they going to do. Who's this little lady? Stella. That's the best

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name ever, are you kidding? She's a flirt. Like her mum, I bet. Cool. If

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you could maybe just... Keep it down! All right. If you ever need

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anything or we get too noisy, talk to me or Pete. We will take care of

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it. Same with us, we're pretty loud. Game of thrones, we get loud. It's

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crazy. All righty. They call the police and then there's a rivalry.

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It's neighbours all over again. The problem is this: There is a feeling

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in modern American comedy that actually everything being slack,

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loose, free form, being slightly improve `` improv, it's great. If

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you want to get comedy right, get tough. There's no fat on that at

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all. Too often, you get the sense there's an idea for a scene, an idea

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and they let the cameras role and let it keep going. It's not

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disciplined enough by any means. There are some very funny sight

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gags, which I would have laughed at enormously had they not been in the

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trailer. It's a classic case of there's one central gag involving

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air bags, which has a couple of punch lines and set up and punch

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lines are in the trailer. When the thing finally comes, you think, OK,

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that's the best gag in the movie, I understand you put it in the trailer

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to get me to see the movie, but I've seen the gag. This is a film that

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opens on a Saturday. Most open on a Friday. It opens on a Saturday, so

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the opening box office weekend will be nine days long. I suspect it will

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go to number one. I see. Just dot math. In America they only do math.

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They can't add the S. Transcendence is the best of the week for you. You

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are rowing against the tide. The tide is turning. I have had a couple

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of conversations, one with Robbie Colman from the telegraph and with

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Mark Cousins, who I know you're a friend of, they both went to see the

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film and say it's interesting. It's not perfect. There are flaws. If you

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want a big ideas, heavy science fiction film, not big on explosions,

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not big on special effects, but dealing with ideas, it's a 70s throw

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back sci`fi movie and I liked it. I thought it was enjoyable. It was

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full of interesting ideas. I think you'd like. It I think you should

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put the negative press aside and see it any way. Right Mark Cousins I'm a

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fan of, A Story of Children and Film, the history of film is an

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amazing series. It is, this is wonderful. It's him looking at the

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role of children in sin paw. It's incredibly broad ranging, very

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international, the entire history of cinema. If up go to the BFI player,

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he's created a season of children's films. It's available on DVD as

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well. Mark Cousins is a poet of modern cinema. He's a film maker but

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looks at things with a critics' eye. He's not afraid to go against the

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current. He has a wonderful, lyrical way of making films that's not so

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much documentary, it's more like poetry. I think it's a wonderful

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piece of work. A great writer, a fine writer. He is. Some people

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don't like his delivery. I love it. Some people are wrong. We have

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covered that already. Yes! Thanks Mark.

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A quick reminder, you'll find more film news and reviews from Mark on

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his BBC blog, Kermode uncut. That's it for this week. Thank you

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for watching and goodbye. Hello, as the weekend begins

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temperatures will be struggling. Some of us will have a frost going

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into tomorrow morning. Temperatures will recover a bit though as the

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weekend goes on. We've seen more in the way of sunshine today, though,

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across the northern half of the UK in particular. And the cloud still

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showing up on the satellite imagery. Most of that is going to fade away

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through this evening and tonight, allowing temperatures to dip

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