25/07/2014 The Film Review


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and more medals with the home nations. Now on BBC News it is time

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for the film review. Hello and welcome to the film review on BBC

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News, to take us through this weeks in our releases is Mark Kermode.

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What do we have this week? As usual we have a very mixed bag, we have

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Joe, we have Hercules, in which Dwayne Johnson plays Hercules, it

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does what it says on the tin. And we have heard to echo which is built on

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a 21st`century update two TT. Let us start with Joe, a choice of

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redemption or ruin? It is a very interesting film, all of the critics

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have been wondering what it was that they were championing. They are both

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back on form, it is described as a rough South tale, essentially it is

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a tale of a surrogates father and son, Nick Cage has a business of

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poisoning trees in order that they can be knocked down and replenished,

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the kids says that he wants to work with him. He sees in the young child

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something in himself, they develop a strange father and son relationship.

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Here is a clip. Yes, I made the mistakes, can you

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`` can I borrow one of those beers of use. I don't know, you can borrow

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it but you cannot buy it. There you go, keep your eyes peeled. Look at

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that, that is the sound that gets the hookers excited, they know you

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have cash when you have that. It is interesting, Nicolas Cage has

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developed a reputation for histrionics on`screen, but this is

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him wanting to be taken seriously. It reminds you how good he is when

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he is on form, the kid we have seen before, in mud and tree of life.

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They have a very good on`screen chemistry, it is one of those films

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where you can smell the environment, the trees, the bar, the sweat. It is

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very gritty, it is somewhat a boy 's own story, the women don't get much

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to do other than being lovers and mothers. What about the pace of the

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film, the Telegraph says that the problem with this film is that it

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does not allow to be idle. The Guardian says it is close cinema,

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which is it? If you tried to describe it as fast or slow, it is

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paced out exactly what it needs to be paced at. When he started out

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this was the type of pace that he made, it opens with one shot in when

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we get the whole setup, we get one kid, the father, the fight, and the

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railroad track, and he was saying, the director that he would settle

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down. It reminded me of how good David Gordon Green was, when he

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started, it is not a full return to form but it is pretty decent. OK, so

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Hercules, brought to us by the person you has brought many

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different things. Welder Wayne the Rock Johnson is Hercules, that is

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what you need to know. `` Dwayne Johnson. He gives you Dwayne Johnson

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in Hercules, you know, you have got a lot of digital scenery, it is a 12

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certificate and I had to say it is a top end 12, there is a lot of bloody

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fighting but it is essentially a rather silly and rather camp, it is

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nothing like as bad as it could be. There for five intentional laughs in

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it, you get to see a range of thespians behaving in pantomime

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fashion and you can basically taste John Hurt's paycheque. It is the

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lowest common to nominate but it is at the top end of that. He spent

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eight months bulking up at the role and he says that they spent about

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eight minutes on the script, is it as bad as that? I went in thinking

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it is terrible, but it is not terrible. It is rubbish but it is

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not terrible rubbish. That is an important distinction. Earth to

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echo, I suppose Eco must be the obvious? The setup is that there is

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a bunch of kids and they get a distress signal, they don't know it

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is a distress signal, they are about to be thrown out of their house

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because there is a motorway coming through. They find a cute lost alien

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in need of some help. Does that ring any bells? He looks scared. Can't

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you stand? Are you all right. Maybe he is just shy. Can you do x`ray

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vision. He does not know where to look. So the question is what can

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you do? OK so he is doing a sophisticated piece of surgery. I

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don't get it, how is it sophisticated. I have got it. Get

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this, are you getting this? That is crazy! As you can see from that, the

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idea is that they have filmed it themselves. That makes it

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21st`century, otherwise, that alien is basically a little bit like other

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films, they have put everything together from other films. And

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actually after a while, you think this is so distracting ticking off

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the movies that this is referencing. It is not bad, it is perfectly

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passable fun, but it is kind of fun if you have not seen this before, it

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is the kind of movies that plays for people who have not seen this type.

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The kids will enjoy it because they will not have that list to click

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through? I remembered that there was a band that said it was OK to do the

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Beatles because the Beatles were not around any more. If you have seen

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it, it is kind of distracting how much it references are the movies,

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but it is fine, fun, kind of cute, kind of sweet, kind of charming but

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massively derivative. OK, take us through your best picture? I think

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perhaps Lady from Shanghai, the Orson Welles story is very

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interesting, they say that he lived his life backwards, she started with

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Citizen Kane and then had nothing but fight with studios and made

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films that caused nothing but trouble. There were huge studio

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issues, but it has an straw ordinary hall of mirrors, what a great chance

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to see what is a flawed but still a very fine piece of cinema. Finally,

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best DVD? I got a lot of flak but I'm standing up for no. It is

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completely mad, there was an argument, a lot of congregation

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audiences say that it takes liberty with the story, it takes liberty

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from the story, that a 600`year`old man hears a voice from space that

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tells him to build a zoo. I don't remember huge big rock transformers,

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but it is in the movie because the producer said so. Russell Crowe

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plays the central role of Noah as an increasingly derange Keiko Warrior,

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it is a very strange film and a very fine school, the strangest

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blockbuster of the year. So if there is one film to see this week what

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will it be? Probably joke, if you are going to stay and watch

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something on DVD, do watch Noah because it is enjoyably bonkers. You

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can find out more film news and reviews across the BBC including all

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of our previous shows, on the BBC website. That is it, thanks for

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watching, goodbye. Good evening, we have temperatures close to 30

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degrees and we have had another hot one but it has not

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