:00:25. > :00:30.Championships. That is at 6:30pm. Welcome to The Film Review on BBC
:00:30. > :00:35.News. Anna Smith joins me to take us through the releases. We have three
:00:35. > :00:41.quite hotly tipped the -- anticipated releases, there is a
:00:41. > :00:51.buddy cop comedy with two women, Vicky To starring Sandra Bullock and
:00:51. > :00:52.
:00:52. > :01:00.Melissa McCarthy. Then there is Only God Forgives, which comes from the
:01:00. > :01:03.person who brought us Drive, again, starring Ryan Gosling. And then
:01:03. > :01:13.finally Red 2, Bruce Willis back in the saddle with Helen Mirren and
:01:13. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:22.some other faces in the comedy caper. I noticed that is The Heat
:01:22. > :01:27.was originally called Untitled Female Buddy Cop Movie. Yes, we have
:01:27. > :01:31.so rarely seen this! Sandra Bullock is a New York FBI agent, very
:01:31. > :01:35.buttoned up. Melissa McCarthy is a Boston cop, it is her local home,
:01:35. > :01:45.she runs around the streets, cleaning them up her own way. They
:01:45. > :01:50.
:01:50. > :01:56.How long will this take? Maybe 12 others, hopefully less. Wii we could
:01:56. > :02:01.just beat him with a phone book? Reign for so many reasons, no. It is
:02:01. > :02:08.crucial that you remain patient. is also crucial that you stop
:02:09. > :02:13.wearing this stupid hair slide. I have one on top of my head like a
:02:13. > :02:18.normal person. Just move on. If you enter that room, you could break the
:02:18. > :02:26.bond that we have created. Do you understand how important this is?
:02:26. > :02:36.Wii I do. And you will be patient? Wii I will. All right.
:02:36. > :02:37.
:02:37. > :02:43.Hello. Coffee? I drink a little more coffee than I probably should.
:02:43. > :02:49.I laughed throughout, it is very funny. It is. Melissa McCarthy is
:02:49. > :02:54.hilarious, she has a great talent for improvisation. You saw that in
:02:54. > :02:56.Bridesmaids as well, which had the same director, Paul Feig. She is a
:02:56. > :03:01.wonderful contrast to Sandra Bullock and they work very well together.
:03:01. > :03:06.The main problem is the plot, which is pretty negligible, it is Scooby
:03:06. > :03:11.Doo style. The writers do not seem very interested in the story. But
:03:11. > :03:19.when it is that funny, does it really matter? It probably doesn't.
:03:19. > :03:25.If you look at the first of the Hangover films, or Bridesmaids, at
:03:25. > :03:29.least with Bridesmaids, there is a wedding. Bridesmaids is probably
:03:29. > :03:33.slightly stronger, thematically and emotionally, but this one, like many
:03:33. > :03:39.buddy movies, they start off hurt -- hate each other then become warmer
:03:39. > :03:45.towards each other. It is a bit of a cliche, but not with women, I have
:03:45. > :03:51.never seen that before. We have not been this dynamic much before. We
:03:51. > :03:56.saw it briefly in the second Miss Congeniality film, but she was
:03:56. > :04:01.paired with a man. Thereafter idea is such as gender dynamics in the
:04:01. > :04:10.workplace, which you do not get so much with a buddy comedy film.
:04:10. > :04:19.I thought that Drive was terrific, Ryan Gosling was terrific and the
:04:19. > :04:23.direction was terrific. I am looking forward to Only God Forgives.
:04:23. > :04:28.seems like a very personal project. It is very experimental, I have
:04:28. > :04:32.nothing against that, I have enjoyed many films such as Enter The Void.
:04:32. > :04:37.Ryan Gosling is a Bangkok criminal who has two settle a score, he comes
:04:37. > :04:41.up against a vigilante cop. There is very little dialogue, long swathes
:04:41. > :04:46.of nothingness, and then suddenly extreme violence. It almost
:04:46. > :04:52.fetishised as violence. Then perhaps asks for forgiveness. But I could
:04:52. > :04:57.not forgive the tedium. It is relentless. And the point is you
:04:57. > :05:05.don't get to know the characters. They are very broad brushstrokes.
:05:05. > :05:10.There is so little dialogue and Ryan Gosling gives nothing away in his
:05:10. > :05:12.face, even though he is a great actor. There is an Oedipus complex,
:05:12. > :05:15.Kristin Scott Thomas is his brassy, blonde, American mother, playing
:05:16. > :05:25.against type. But this has no humour like David Lynch or Tarantino would
:05:25. > :05:32.have. It is a bit solemn. Red 2, I bumped into somebody who said, why
:05:32. > :05:37.did they even make the first film, never mind a sequel? But I thought
:05:37. > :05:44.the first film was harmless. thought it was harmless, three out
:05:44. > :05:49.of five. I didn't see why they needed a sequel and apparently you
:05:49. > :05:52.are making a third. They are reluctantly coming out of
:05:52. > :06:00.retirement, certainly in the case of Bruce Willis's character, Frank. Not
:06:00. > :06:05.only is he wrongly implicated in a nuclear plot, but there is a hit out
:06:05. > :06:10.on him. MI6 has just given me a contract to
:06:10. > :06:15.kill you. Apparently you are guilty of nuclear terrorism, murder and you
:06:15. > :06:22.are number one on Interpol 's most wanted. What did you say?Yes. The
:06:22. > :06:30.money is good, and if I don't do it, somebody else will. Is that Marvin?
:06:30. > :06:34.! And Sarah? Reign Marvin gave her a gun. Are you being controlling? You
:06:34. > :06:41.have to take chances in a relationship and be supportive.
:06:41. > :06:47.just need her to be safe. Just rent Dirty Dancing and tell her you love
:06:47. > :06:53.her, it is important to enjoy life while you still can. That is a funny
:06:53. > :06:57.scene, there probably four or five which are very funny, the rest, not
:06:57. > :07:00.so much. There is a lot of action. There is a breezy, light tone, with
:07:00. > :07:06.bodies flying everywhere. Mary-Louise Parker is great fun as
:07:06. > :07:09.his girlfriend, you have John Malcolm, who is great, Anthony
:07:09. > :07:16.Hopkins really brightens up the screen as a crazy scientist, but it
:07:16. > :07:26.just spotted. It was not as funny as the first film. I enjoyed the first
:07:26. > :07:26.
:07:26. > :07:30.film but I did think, this could be Ocean's 11, but it is not quite
:07:30. > :07:36.sharp enough. It has a great ensemble cast. Helen Mirren is
:07:36. > :07:44.terrific, but it just doesn't quite carry it off. I would say this is
:07:44. > :07:50.the same, if not slightly worse. Your Best of the week? I have seen
:07:50. > :07:55.Wadjda, this amazing Saudi film. first film made solely in the
:07:55. > :08:01.kingdom, and the first female film in Saudi Arabia. It is about a girl
:08:01. > :08:04.who simply wants to have a bike, which is very frowned upon. It is
:08:04. > :08:08.her journey of discovery, coming into adult hood and discovering the
:08:08. > :08:15.repression in her own world. It is not a thumping feminism, but it is
:08:15. > :08:21.her own personal search boy quality. I learned more about Saudi
:08:21. > :08:26.Arabia, the human face of what happens there, you're watching this
:08:26. > :08:32.film than any newspaper article or documentary. You understand it
:08:32. > :08:36.through the eyes of a child in the way that Oliver twist tells you
:08:36. > :08:40.about Charles Dickens' London. one of those lovely slice of life
:08:40. > :08:47.films where you feel you are immersed in that culture. I agree.
:08:47. > :08:53.And the men are peripheral, it is what women do to women. And your DVD
:08:53. > :09:00.is The Paperboy? If You Did Not See This In The Cinema, It Is Really
:09:00. > :09:06.Worth Seeing On Dvd. If only for novelty value. It is a deep South,
:09:06. > :09:10.torrid crime thriller about erotic obsession. Nicole Kidman is
:09:10. > :09:14.transfixed on John Cusack's incarcerated criminal, Zac Efron and
:09:14. > :09:19.Matthew McConaughey, a great cast. You will talk about it with your
:09:19. > :09:23.friends, whether or not you agree on it. One review said it was a plain