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reserve based in London". Those are the detail. No names, but confirming | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
the five British people died, saying it was a routine flight `` details. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Coming up next, it's The Film Review. | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
Hello, and welcome The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode. What do we have? A mixed | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
bag, I'm sure you know. We have Transcendence, the new movie | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
starring Johnny Depp, which is done, let us say, not so well in America. | :00:31. | :00:37. | |
We have Tracks, a recreation of an epic journey across the Australian | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
outback. One woman, four camels and a dog. We have The Other Woman, a | :00:41. | :00:48. | |
story about women turning the tables on the man who wronged them. You | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
said something about Transcendence there, not doing particularly well | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
in the United States. It has been loathed, hated and dumped on as the | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
worse non`blockbuster of the year? Comparisons have been made with John | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
Carter. That is not something that one does casually! The film is the | :01:09. | :01:17. | |
debut from Wally Pfister. It stars Johnny Depp. It was based on a | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
script, referred to as the Black List, a very fated but as yet | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
unproduced screenplays back in 2012. Johnny Depp is an artificial | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
intelligence specialist, who is enthusiastic about reaching the | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
point when computers basically overtake mankind and can know and | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
understand the world in a more extraordinary way than mankind can. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
This of course causes many people to think, you know, aren't you playing | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
God? Isn't this all about a bit dangerous? Here is a clip. | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
These are state`of`the`art processors. You won't find faster | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
power anywhere else in the world. Good evening, Dr Tagger. He has seen | :01:53. | :02:01. | |
old pictures of you. Good evening, Donald Buchanan. It knows me? Of | :02:02. | :02:11. | |
course it does. Social media. Tell the agent can an about yourself? I'm | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
a physically independent neural network invented by Dr Will Caster. | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
Can you prove that you are self`aware? That is a difficult | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
question, doctor. Can you prove that you are? | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
What happens very early on, he is attacked by terrorists. The only way | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
of surviving is he has to upload his personality to a data bank and | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
become an electronic presence. Become somewhere between man and | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
machine. However, is the uploaded presence really him, or is the | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
entity for which his wife is now in love, actually something completely | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
different, something sinister something that really isn't the man | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
she married? The interesting thing with the film is, it has gone down | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
very badly in America. The box office has been poor. Bad reviews. | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
That looks like it will be repeated over here. Someone who is a fan of | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
Wally Pfister, as a cinematographer, he is really brilliant. I went into | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
this with high expectations. Generally, I liked it. I thought it | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
was... What it is. You are the only the man of the planet who liked it, | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
as far as I can see? I found a couple of others. It's throw back | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
1970s B picture. Wally Pfister pictures like Silent Running, Omega | :03:32. | :03:43. | |
Man... Big idea films. The problem with the film, at $100 million, you | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
make movies that have lots of explosions in it. Chris Nolan when | :03:48. | :03:58. | |
he made Inception, which Wally Pfister shot, it was clever and | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
intelligent. It's like an extended episode of the Twilight Zone. What | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
would happen if you uploaded your personality to the computer and the | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
computer had access to the internet. It's low on crowd pleasing | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
explosions. Johnny Depp is billed at the star. Early on he is sidelined. | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
He becomes a cyber presence. The heavy lifting done by Paul Bettany, | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
a brilliant actor and Rebecca Hall. I like her very much. It is shot | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
beautifully. As you saw from that clip. It is a film, which unlike the | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
standard trend for scientific movies doesn't have an edit every | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
millisecond. It wants to take its time. It is true. Some of the | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
dialogue is clunky, in a sort of Star Trek way. I thought it was a | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
film with big ambitions, dealing with an interesting idea in a | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
populous manner, I thought. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed all two hours | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
of it. I'm genuinely surprised by just how hostile the reviews have | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
been. We are in favour of diversity in this programme, as you know. Here | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
is what you need to do. Go and see it and find out... I will. Make up | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
your own mind. I will. Don't let it put you off. I won't. Now, Tracks. | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
This is a true story. Robin Davidson tracked from Alice Springs to the | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
West Coast, armed with four camels, a dog, with a sponsorship deal with | :05:16. | :05:24. | |
National Geographic. In order to do it she had to be met at regular | :05:25. | :05:32. | |
intervals by a photographer. He would document her travels. For a | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
lot of the journey she was alone. Certain parts of it she was joined | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
by an elder. She is on her own. It is her, the animals, out in the | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
desert facing her own demons. They do a back story about why she wants | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
to be alone, her own personal issues. What is interesting about | :05:47. | :05:56. | |
it, it doesn't over do it. It's a dangerous journey. There are moments | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
of peril... Her survival is not quaranteed. The film doesn't feel | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
the need to crank it up and do silly stuff. It's pretty much as it | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
happens. It proceeds at a walking pace. Which is right. It looks | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
beautiful. You believe Mia Wasikowska is that character. I | :06:15. | :06:21. | |
thought it's not sentimental. It's not anything that tries to make this | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
a jolly, sugary coated story. It's a very interesting story about a | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
woman, who for reasons of her own, wants to be completely alone other | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
than the company of these animals. The camels are extraordinarily | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
expressive creatures. Talking about strong women, The Other Woman. If | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
only we were Cameron Diaz and a revenge movie. Leslie Mann is | :06:45. | :06:56. | |
married to a guy and she discovers he is having an affair with Cameron | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Diaz, they bond and get on and then they find out he is having an affair | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
with another woman. I don't hate you at all. I got all of that out of my | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
system with that woman. You can be friends with your husband's | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
mistress. It's a dream come true. Ignore her. She is working through | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
some stuff. You smell amazing. What is that? I think it's just sweat. | :07:20. | :07:32. | |
That was remarkably funny. First Wife's Club meets 9`5? Yes. Absent | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
of the wit and one liners. It's one of those films that says, what we | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
are doing, sisters doing it for themselves. They don't appear to be | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
doing it for themselves or each other or us. It's meant to be a | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
comedy in which the nature of what is happening on screen, lots of | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
hysteria. You are thinking ` I bet this was great fun to make. Why do I | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
think that? It's boring to watch. The more fun it was to make, the | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
less fun everyone has watching you do it. Comedy is a rigorous | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
discipline. This misses everything. It doesn't... Challenge gender | :08:16. | :08:26. | |
sterotypes. It repeats them, then says, it's OK, it's a story about | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
women on top. Which it kind of isn't. It's something which trots | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
out the old cliches. There is the brainy one, the ditzy one, the one | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
who is the housewife. If those sterotypes appeared in any other | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
movie you wouldn't give them the time of day. Underlying it all, it's | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
not funny enough. The laughing you did to that clip, that is the most | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
laughing that happened in the whole screening. I'm leaning towards going | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
to see Transcendence. Exactly. Actually. Rebel Without a Cause, | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
which I have seen on the telly, I have not seen on the big screen. | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
There was a reissue. You have to seek them out. They are playing | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
around the country, Google it. It's worth seeing on the big screen. | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
Rebel Without a Cause stands the test of time. It is an extraordinary | :09:10. | :09:21. | |
movie. I hadn't seen it it on the big screen. You have seen it on the | :09:22. | :09:32. | |
telly. It works. It is powerful. A very different movie to the movie | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
you imagine from the posters and the iconic imagery. James Dean really | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
was a very, very talented, very promising actor. A lot of people | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
dismiss him because there were three films. It's worth seeing. It reminds | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
people, given it was in the 1950s, it reminds people that teenagers | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
behaving badly, the problem with young people is not an entirely new | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
phenomenon. No. It's about the story of a bad kid from a good home. I | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
still think all those things still chime true. The performances arer | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
terrific and it looks good. Your DVD choice That Sinking Feeling. It | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
surprised me. It is directed by Greg Forsyth. It is his first feature. | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
It's about a group of kids in Glasgow who solve their financial | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
problems by stealing sinks. Hence the title. It's funny, really smart. | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
It went into the Guinness Book of Records as officially the cheapest | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
feature film ever theatrically released in the UK. It stands up to | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
this day. All the things you love about Bill Forsyth are there in That | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
Sinking Feeling. That is interesting. It bears out you talked | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
about the theory about comedy. The cheaper the film, the more they have | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
to work on the script. Therefore, actually the better it is. It may be | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
the case that with Transcendence, that $100 million is too much money | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
for that movie. Had they had the restrictions of Under the Skin it | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
might have worked out in a more popular way. Cheap and cheerful. | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
Thank you very much, Mark. A quick reminder before we go that you'll | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
find more film news and reviews from Mark on his BBC blog Kermode Uncut. | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
Thank you for watching. There have been showers around | :11:05. | :11:27. | |
today, and some dry and sunny weather, at times too, despite the | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
low pressure. South`west of us, and close to us, as we go through the | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
day to | :11:33. | :11:33. |