:00:31. > :00:38.Welcome to The Film Review on BBC News. What do we have? We spread
:00:38. > :00:46.around the world. This is Neil Jordan's latest wealth into deep
:00:46. > :00:52.vampire genre, Byzantium. We are off to South America. We go to
:00:52. > :01:00.Argentina for a tale of two Viggo Mortensen, playing with twin
:01:00. > :01:05.brothers. Finally, we're back in Britain for
:01:05. > :01:13.a tale of corrupt cops played by brothers, Paul Bettany and Stephen
:01:13. > :01:23.Graham up in a Brad James Girling. -- Blood. This was filmed in
:01:23. > :01:28.Hastings? Spooky turn. The British seaside it is a sort of location
:01:28. > :01:32.deep film director has films before. Mona Lisa had that British seaside
:01:32. > :01:41.element in the 80s. It reminded me quite a lot of that film which was
:01:41. > :01:45.one of my favourite in that era. It is a vampire movie. Gemma Arterton
:01:46. > :01:52.plays a mother vampire with her daughter, or Saoirse Ronan. They
:01:52. > :02:01.are quite close in age, this mother and daughter. They are up to 100
:02:01. > :02:06.years old, at least. They are looking very good. They are living
:02:06. > :02:12.in a bordello called the Byzantium. Saoirse Ronan is going to school,
:02:12. > :02:22.trying to learn how to be a vampire. She writes essays to head teacher
:02:22. > :02:26.
:02:26. > :02:32.about her vampire identity. This is worrying to the teacher. She caused
:02:32. > :02:39.the mother to see what is going on. I was hoping to arrange a much more
:02:39. > :02:44.official meeting. What is the problem? Eleanor wrote her life
:02:44. > :02:52.story. She is quite insistent that it is true. I do not expected to be
:02:52. > :02:58.flattered by tears. She described here as a sort of vampire. She has
:02:58. > :03:08.got a great imagination. I hope she gets top marks. Who else has read
:03:08. > :03:09.
:03:09. > :03:15.it? You have sole care of her, don't you? I am doing just fine.
:03:15. > :03:22.am a big Neil Jordan fran. I loved Mona Lisa. He did Interview With A
:03:22. > :03:28.Vampire. Vampire movies, there are so many. What does this have?
:03:28. > :03:32.problem is I do not know the rules anymore. It used to be crosses and
:03:32. > :03:38.garlic and sunlight. Now the rules have changed. Every film has the
:03:38. > :03:42.new rules. I was not quite sure what the rules were in this one.
:03:42. > :03:48.The two leaves, Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan are terrific together.
:03:48. > :03:56.It is sexy, kind of wild. It has the visual that Neil Jordan is
:03:56. > :04:01.known for. Those things are very striking. I am not sure what they
:04:01. > :04:08.meant. There is a flashback structure where Jonny Lee Miller
:04:08. > :04:13.plays old swashbucklers. He first turned Gemma Arterton into a
:04:13. > :04:17.Corazon and sentenced her to a life of being a vampire. -- courtesan.
:04:17. > :04:27.It does not make sense. It takes away from what is rather a good
:04:27. > :04:33.
:04:33. > :04:39.movie. It is different. Everybody Has A Plan they do, apparently.
:04:39. > :04:44.Viggo Mortensen's plan is to take the place of his twin brother. He
:04:44. > :04:49.plays a board doctor in Buenos Aires. He gets a visit from his
:04:49. > :04:59.brother, who is caught up in some shady business in the delta where
:04:59. > :05:00.
:05:00. > :05:03.they grew up in the jungle. He decides to take Pedro's place. It
:05:03. > :05:08.gives Viggo Mortensen a chance to play brothers and to show what the
:05:08. > :05:13.fact he can speak very good Spanish. He was born in Argentina so he
:05:13. > :05:21.speaks the dialect of the region. Everyone has a twin? I am resistant
:05:21. > :05:28.to twin the movies. It is one of the West dings and ageing can save.
:05:28. > :05:37.-- worst thing as an agent can save. This is a boring tour in. That is
:05:37. > :05:41.the worst one? There is a lot of atmosphere. The Ripper is stagnant,
:05:41. > :05:48.but it mirrors the plot. It is quite bogged down. Viggo Mortensen
:05:48. > :05:55.is very handsome but he is prone to gazing into a mirror a lot. He
:05:55. > :06:00.realises he is becoming his twin. It gets bogged down, unfortunately.
:06:00. > :06:09.Might give that one a miss. Brad James Girling is also about
:06:09. > :06:17.siblings. -- bladder back. We have siblings played by Paul Bettany and
:06:17. > :06:22.Stephen Graham. I did not know on what planet these two could ever be
:06:22. > :06:27.brothers. One is from Liverpool and the other is from London. By no
:06:27. > :06:36.stretch of the imagination can be his brothers beat Madden brothers,
:06:36. > :06:41.except in this cop thriller. -- beat blood brothers. Stephen Graham
:06:41. > :06:45.does a London accent in tears. They played cop brothers to have been
:06:45. > :06:50.mired in corruption because they covered up a murder. Their so
:06:50. > :07:00.mismatched as siblings. They have to get Paul Bettany to stand low on
:07:00. > :07:28.
:07:28. > :07:35.the stairs. Good morning. D he mean? -- do you hear me? Joe Mercer
:07:35. > :07:39.as she wants to get married. are getting married? Gemma has
:07:39. > :07:40.Hi, I'm Claudia-Liza, live with your late night check on the
:07:41. > :07:44.Saturday sport. finally given a fighting you off.
:07:44. > :07:54.Ruler of the World was on top of the world at Epsom. The horse,
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:07:54. > :08:40.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 45 seconds
:08:40. > :08:45.He concede the grandeur of the City Hall. -- you can see. It is a kind
:08:45. > :08:54.of Greek tragedy. There are a lot of ideas but it is hampered by this
:08:54. > :08:59.mismatched brothers. Your best of the week is Beware of Mr Baker. I
:08:59. > :09:05.would like to see this but I did not want to meet Ginger Baker.
:09:05. > :09:09.is not a great human being. The man who made the documentary, at the
:09:09. > :09:14.sound of the mid-, at Ginger Baker acquits him by smashing a walking
:09:14. > :09:18.stick straight into his face for inquiring about him. It is still a
:09:18. > :09:28.very fine and music documentary. He is a brilliant drummer who played
:09:28. > :09:29.
:09:29. > :09:37.with Cream and Fela Kuti. Quite extraordinary. It was an
:09:37. > :09:43.extraordinary fusion, rock drummer. I think he might be Animal from the
:09:43. > :09:47.Muppets. I think he is based on Ginger Baker. I thought it was a
:09:47. > :09:51.real-life the Spinal tap. It is also about the sadness of the man