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and more medals with the home nations. Now on BBC News it is time | :00:00. | :00:20. | |
for the film review. Hello and welcome to the film review on BBC | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
News, to take us through this weeks in our releases is Mark Kermode. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
What do we have this week? As usual we have a very mixed bag, we have | :00:31. | :00:43. | |
Joe, we have Hercules, in which Dwayne Johnson plays Hercules, it | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
does what it says on the tin. And we have heard to echo which is built on | :00:50. | :01:01. | |
a 21st`century update two TT. Let us start with Joe, a choice of | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
redemption or ruin? It is a very interesting film, all of the critics | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
have been wondering what it was that they were championing. They are both | :01:12. | :01:25. | |
back on form, it is described as a rough South tale, essentially it is | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
a tale of a surrogates father and son, Nick Cage has a business of | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
poisoning trees in order that they can be knocked down and replenished, | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
the kids says that he wants to work with him. He sees in the young child | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
something in himself, they develop a strange father and son relationship. | :01:44. | :01:53. | |
Here is a clip. Yes, I made the mistakes, can you | :01:54. | :02:04. | |
`` can I borrow one of those beers of use. I don't know, you can borrow | :02:05. | :02:16. | |
it but you cannot buy it. There you go, keep your eyes peeled. Look at | :02:17. | :02:31. | |
that, that is the sound that gets the hookers excited, they know you | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
have cash when you have that. It is interesting, Nicolas Cage has | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
developed a reputation for histrionics on`screen, but this is | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
him wanting to be taken seriously. It reminds you how good he is when | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
he is on form, the kid we have seen before, in mud and tree of life. | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
They have a very good on`screen chemistry, it is one of those films | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
where you can smell the environment, the trees, the bar, the sweat. It is | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
very gritty, it is somewhat a boy 's own story, the women don't get much | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
to do other than being lovers and mothers. What about the pace of the | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
film, the Telegraph says that the problem with this film is that it | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
does not allow to be idle. The Guardian says it is close cinema, | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
which is it? If you tried to describe it as fast or slow, it is | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
paced out exactly what it needs to be paced at. When he started out | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
this was the type of pace that he made, it opens with one shot in when | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
we get the whole setup, we get one kid, the father, the fight, and the | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
railroad track, and he was saying, the director that he would settle | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
down. It reminded me of how good David Gordon Green was, when he | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
started, it is not a full return to form but it is pretty decent. OK, so | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
Hercules, brought to us by the person you has brought many | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
different things. Welder Wayne the Rock Johnson is Hercules, that is | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
what you need to know. `` Dwayne Johnson. He gives you Dwayne Johnson | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
in Hercules, you know, you have got a lot of digital scenery, it is a 12 | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
certificate and I had to say it is a top end 12, there is a lot of bloody | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
fighting but it is essentially a rather silly and rather camp, it is | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
nothing like as bad as it could be. There for five intentional laughs in | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
it, you get to see a range of thespians behaving in pantomime | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
fashion and you can basically taste John Hurt's paycheque. It is the | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
lowest common to nominate but it is at the top end of that. He spent | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
eight months bulking up at the role and he says that they spent about | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
eight minutes on the script, is it as bad as that? I went in thinking | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
it is terrible, but it is not terrible. It is rubbish but it is | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
not terrible rubbish. That is an important distinction. Earth to | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
echo, I suppose Eco must be the obvious? The setup is that there is | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
a bunch of kids and they get a distress signal, they don't know it | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
is a distress signal, they are about to be thrown out of their house | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
because there is a motorway coming through. They find a cute lost alien | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
in need of some help. Does that ring any bells? He looks scared. Can't | :05:41. | :05:52. | |
you stand? Are you all right. Maybe he is just shy. Can you do x`ray | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
vision. He does not know where to look. So the question is what can | :05:59. | :06:07. | |
you do? OK so he is doing a sophisticated piece of surgery. I | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
don't get it, how is it sophisticated. I have got it. Get | :06:15. | :06:28. | |
this, are you getting this? That is crazy! As you can see from that, the | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
idea is that they have filmed it themselves. That makes it | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
21st`century, otherwise, that alien is basically a little bit like other | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
films, they have put everything together from other films. And | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
actually after a while, you think this is so distracting ticking off | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
the movies that this is referencing. It is not bad, it is perfectly | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
passable fun, but it is kind of fun if you have not seen this before, it | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
is the kind of movies that plays for people who have not seen this type. | :07:09. | :07:16. | |
The kids will enjoy it because they will not have that list to click | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
through? I remembered that there was a band that said it was OK to do the | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
Beatles because the Beatles were not around any more. If you have seen | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
it, it is kind of distracting how much it references are the movies, | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
but it is fine, fun, kind of cute, kind of sweet, kind of charming but | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
massively derivative. OK, take us through your best picture? I think | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
perhaps Lady from Shanghai, the Orson Welles story is very | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
interesting, they say that he lived his life backwards, she started with | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
Citizen Kane and then had nothing but fight with studios and made | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
films that caused nothing but trouble. There were huge studio | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
issues, but it has an straw ordinary hall of mirrors, what a great chance | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
to see what is a flawed but still a very fine piece of cinema. Finally, | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
best DVD? I got a lot of flak but I'm standing up for no. It is | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
completely mad, there was an argument, a lot of congregation | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
audiences say that it takes liberty with the story, it takes liberty | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
from the story, that a 600`year`old man hears a voice from space that | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
tells him to build a zoo. I don't remember huge big rock transformers, | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
but it is in the movie because the producer said so. Russell Crowe | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
plays the central role of Noah as an increasingly derange Keiko Warrior, | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
it is a very strange film and a very fine school, the strangest | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
blockbuster of the year. So if there is one film to see this week what | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
will it be? Probably joke, if you are going to stay and watch | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
something on DVD, do watch Noah because it is enjoyably bonkers. You | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
can find out more film news and reviews across the BBC including all | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
of our previous shows, on the BBC website. That is it, thanks for | :09:29. | :09:47. | |
watching, goodbye. Good evening, we have temperatures close to 30 | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
degrees and we have had another hot one but it has not | :09:51. | :09:52. |