A Man Called Ove, Despicable Me 3, Risk The Film Review

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Film Review. Hello and welcome to

the Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this week's

cinema releases is Mark Kermode. A mixed bag this week. We have a

portrait of a grumpy old man. We have Despicable Me three, the

minions are back. And Risk. Lots to talk about but my most important

role this week is to get the pronunciation right.

This is a film that will make you feel and his sympathy for all the

people in your life. The tag line is, you will love him as much a fee

hates you. He wants to end his life but it keeps being distracted by his

neighbours to keep breaking the housing association rules, of which

he is a stickler for keeping two. When a new family moves and he is

furious about their presence, their annoyance, then being there.

However, his wife says that behind that he starts to break down his

resistance and she gets him to teach her to drive. Here's a clip. Hello.

A fantastic look of exasperation on his face. He has a brilliant face.

Did you ever see the 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and

disappeared? No. As shackled with that film because of the humour, and

I never fell in with it. It looks like that kind of film but then we

start to learn about his life story, young romance, childhood trauma, his

relationship with his wife which is idyllic but faces tragedy, and you

start to understand how he got to where he is and it is seat and

sentimental. There is an ongoing argument about whether bobbles or

saps are the ideal cast. House leaders. Entire friendships follow

tour that these arguments but you start to see as a three-dimensional

character. He has a strong moral compass and has been made better.

Inside that is the person he used to be. I went in not thinking I would

go for it, but I laughed and cried. Like any movie that makes me cry

because it means that you believe in the characters. I really liked it.

Despite the tag line, you will love him as much as he hates you, it was

easy to fall in with. A third of any film really. Does the world need

this? Whether we need Despicable Me three is another thing. I find them

funny. They are running out of plots and they had to bring a character in

to make it work, but you see the minions before the titles and one

pulls out a far gone and it made me laugh. I giggled like an idiot for

the rest of the film because I think that the minions are funny. The

verbal staff is funny and they are perfect slapstick creations, they

remind me of what was funny about old silent cinema. There is a new

super villain but for me I just find the minions funny. I laughed all the

way through. Even though I knew that I shouldn't, I did. You are allowed

to do that. I am so interested in Risk. Her last film about Edward

Snowden was brilliant. She was in the hotel room when the revelations

were made. He came across as shy in that documentary. This is one about

Julian Assange, who does not come across as shy. The film is

conflicted about its subject. It began as a film about some under

film makers seem to admire, but that changes. The portrait we get is some

under this last is a stick, controlling, self obsessed, and has

no self-awareness. Here is a clip in which Julian Assange and his

associate are trying to call Hillary Clinton on the phone. This is an

emergency. You are the emergency line and it will take a while? OK.

Do you want to do that now and I will wait. He would like to speak to

her about that. OK, let me start by giving you my phone number.

Details including an unredacted cables such to go on the Internet. I

do not understand why you do not see the urgency in this. Who is he?

Hello, this is Julian Assange. Read do not have a problem, you have a

problem. That is the tone of the film. The story is well now and,

what is strange about this film is that it is very fragmented, it is

not as good as her previous film. You can tell that it is a film in

which the film-maker's relationship change during it. When the film was

first seen about a year ago, the film-makers said the Julian Assange

demanded changes and got lawyers involved, which he did not have the

right to do. She has made the film that she wanted. There is an irony

in someone who is releasing information wanting to control it.

We have seen this before another documentaries and in the drama, the

Fifth Estate. You get an inside view, but it is fragmented and

frustrated because even when they are talking about the election you

want the film to be more focused. It feels like it is falling apart.

Julian Assange has said that the film will do his reputation no good

and I think that he is right. Which some people may take as a

recommendation in itself. It is interesting, also that it was made

by a woman. What is your best out this week? Okja. It is basically as

story about a girl in Korea who is moved to America to keep Aptech

safety issue raised. It is a film about where food comes from and how

capitalism hides behind the caring face. The film uses brilliant CGI to

bring a giant pink to life, it is so terrible and strange and I liked it.

-- a giant pink. It is very cinematic. It is thought promoting,

it is not vegetarian propaganda but it will give you food for thought. I

like that phrase, vegetarian propaganda. What about DVDs? He'll

The Living was a small release. It is a story about a young man he was

involved in an accident and his heart is used for a transplant to

save someone else, to heal the living. It is a film about the

miracle of medicine but it is more than that, it is about life and

death, it is about transcendence, it takes poetic wonders and two strange

areas. It is very underplayed and does not feel like it is

manipulating your emotions that I was overwhelmed by it. Everyone I

know who has seen it has loved that. I am looking forward to that. Thank

you very much. We will see you next week.

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