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next general election renegotiating our position and holding that | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
referendum and if I'm Prime Minister after 2015 that's exactly what will | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
happen. Hello. Welcome to the Film Review. | :00:00. | :00:30. | |
Mark is here. We have Out of the Furnace. Scott Cooper made Crazy | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
Heart. Jeff Bridges won an Oscar for that. We have that awkward moment, | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
it's the moment that Zac Efron finally lets you down. And Lone | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
Survivor, a gritty war movie based on a true story from 2005. I think | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
since Christian Bale has got riT of the Bat costume he can do no wrong. | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
He was brilliant in American Hustle. He was brilliant before he put that | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
on. This new film is set in a dying steel town. The story is two | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
brothers, one of them decides he will stay at the mill, which is the | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
centre of the town, but basically it's like a dying sun around which | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
the whole of the opportune resolves. The other goes off to Iraq, does | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
four tours of duty in Iraq, from which he comes back and basically | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
full of horrible memories and things with which he can't quite deal. | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Meanwhile, his responsible brother have served time in prison and they | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
both face an uncertain future. Here's a clip. | :01:36. | :02:07. | |
How do you feel? Like I want to run. I'm running away. Go! Do you want to | :02:08. | :02:38. | |
drive? Yeah. Yeah. Say goodbye. This is classic Bruce spring teen | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
territory, the mill and the boys coming home and the blue claRs. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
Although there's very little dialogue, that scene tells you what | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
you need to know. It's shot on 33 millimetre so it's old-school. It | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
has two committed performances. It's about men together and relationships | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
with a manly thing going on. There is also, I heard in the score. It's | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
absolutely beautifully done, which is lyrical and melancholic. The film | :03:04. | :03:14. | |
has its roots in 1970's cinema. Behind it all is the Deerhunter. | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
There is a hunting sequence. It's about war and being unable to deal | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
with peacetime and getting involved in a deadly sport. In this | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
particular case, it's bare-knuckle boxing and it's about two brothers | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
both facing similar, but very, very different problems. It's a film with | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
great performances. Sam Sheppard plays a secondary role with Forest | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
Whitaker and it does have an awful lot of macho cliche about it to some | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
extent and you have to accept that as you go in, but if you are | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
somebody who is a fan of 1970's cinema. If you like Ain't Nobody's | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
Saints, it is moody and it has great atmosphere to it. It doesn't have a | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
huge amount that's original, but in a way it's dedicate today the past | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
it doesn't really want to be original. Talking about original or | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
otherwise, That Awkward Moment, which I was told the best Hollywood | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
script that hadn't been made? It was on the black list, which is a list | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
of hot scripts. It goes to show Hollywood nobody knows anything. | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
It's a rom-com and the difference is, it is seen from the view of the | :04:28. | :04:37. | |
three guys. Zac Efron is involved with his production company. As a | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
huge fan of Zac Efron, I thought it was whitless, charmless, and stuff | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
we have seen before. Guys talking in the way that no real men talk. It | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
says guys will recognise themselves and women will get an interesting | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
view on what guys like. Nonsense. It's a film people -- filmed by | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
characters who bear no relationship to human beings. The script is naff. | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
They are saying, "Hay, we are dealing with grown-up issues." It is | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
pure rile and -- pure isle and worst of all, it's not funny. You could | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
get away with a lot if it was funny. It is and I say this with - it's the | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
kind of film that Vince Vaughan would have done in his prime, but no | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
would go, "You know what, I think we've all moved on." There is life | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
after really bad rom-coms, as Matthew ma conhi is proving. I still | :05:34. | :05:42. | |
have faith in Zac Efron. Like a parent, I'm not angry, I'm just | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
disappointed. You've let yourself down and everyone down. Lone | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
Survivor. Crueling war movie based on a real incident in 2005 in | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
Afghanistan. Four American navy Seals in Afghanistan near the | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Pakistan border are on a mission to track down the Taliban leader. When | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
they get there the first thing that happens he bump into a -- is they | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
bump into a group of innocent goad herders, but they can't -- goat | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
herders, but they can't work out whether they're innocent or not. | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
Eyes down. Eyes down. Eyes down. Is your radio working? No. This is a | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
cursed op. There are no curses. It's just Afghanistan. That's all. The | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
way I see it, we have three options. One, we let them go, hike up and | :06:40. | :06:46. | |
we'll be found in less than an hour. Two, we tie them up, hike out and | :06:47. | :06:58. | |
role the dice. Or freeze to death. Three. Too many to compromise. We | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
cannot do that. The film starts by raising a moral dilemma. Then it | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
moves into this sequence, which is the body, which is the fire | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
fighting, which they are pinned down in and it's visceral and hard to | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
watch and it's bullets and bones and blood and flesh and suffering. It's | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
not glamorous, but the problem is, the film is conflicted. It doesn't | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
know whether it wants to be horrifying and heroic. It doesn't | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
know whether it wants the audience to be excited, or aghast and in the | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
end it ends up being oddly unsatisfactory. On a technical | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
level, it's very well executed. The battle stuff is well done and really | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
quite flinch-inducing, but the film is conflicted to the point that it | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
becomes distracting. It keeps wanting to become a flag-waving | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
patriotic film, yet it's about the terrible thing, but it's technically | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
very good, and performances are strong and it's technically | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
engrossing and gripping, but it can't quite figure out what it wants | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
to be, so it is in the end oddly unsatisfactory. It's certainly not | :08:08. | :08:16. | |
Zero Dark Thirty. 12 Years a Slave. Lots of Oscars. We were talking | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
about films that you think a lot about after you enjoy it or sit | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
through, but after you think about it. Do you think about this? I think | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
it's beautifully done by Steve McQueen. I think it's going to win | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
Best Picture at the Oscars. I hope he wins Best Director. I think it's | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
a near faultless adaptation of a very difficult story and he tells it | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
brilliantly and how great it's doing so well. Prisoners, the DVD? We | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
talked about this when it came out. It's a kidnap and revenge drama and | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
it starts out very well. It's an interesting film about whether or | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
not the desire for revenge automatically causes corruption. | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
About two thirds of the way through it gives up and becomes a silly | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
chase movie, but for two thirds it's dark, brooding and raising | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
interesting ideas. Not least, about to be tour, which a particular | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
relevance in the post-Iraq world, but the last third, you go, you're | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
going that way. It's a shame. Compared to Taken with Liam Neeson | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
and somebody in a similar dilemma, which is a straightforward | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
shoot-them up and shake them up. There is a gulf like this. Prisoners | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
is interesting and it has ideas. Taken has an idea. It has one idea. | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
It's not a great idea. Check it out. Two thirds of the way through you | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
might start ing to disappointed. Thank you. Before we go, you'll find | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
pour film news and reviews from Mark on his BBC blog. | :09:56. | :09:57. |