:00:00. > :00:00.Andy Murray looks back to his best at the Monte Carlo Masters. All that
:00:00. > :00:19.and more at 6:30pm. Now it is time for The Film Review.
:00:20. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News.
:00:22. > :00:24.To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode.
:00:25. > :00:28.So, Mark, what do we have this week?
:00:29. > :00:36.What do we have? It has been a very good week. We
:00:37. > :00:44.have Eye In The Sky, and intelligent war thriller.
:00:45. > :00:51.We also have Fan. And we have The Jungle Book. A live
:00:52. > :00:58.action, or is reimagining of the Kipling classic.
:00:59. > :01:01.This is by Gavin Hood. The story is that there is a grown machine and
:01:02. > :01:04.Nairobi. We watched the mission playing out on the screens of those
:01:05. > :01:07.in charge of running the mission in London, Nevada and elsewhere. Helen
:01:08. > :01:12.Mirren is the no-nonsense colonel who has been tracking a particular
:01:13. > :01:15.terror suspect. They end up any house where there are a number of
:01:16. > :01:20.people that they are trying to get. Our mission is to capture, not kill.
:01:21. > :01:28.When it is evident that a suicide mission is imminent, she wants is a
:01:29. > :01:31.strike. However, Aaron Paul, the Nevada pilot, piloting the drone,
:01:32. > :01:33.one not engage. Because into the target area comes a young girl. You
:01:34. > :01:39.is a clip. -- here is a clip. I will give her time
:01:40. > :01:53.to walk through. Lieutenant, we have this one
:01:54. > :02:29.opportunity, let us not lose it. Those men are bound
:02:30. > :02:42.to disperse, engage now. If I can see them moving or this
:02:43. > :02:45.girl was in the radius, but I want to give her a chance to get out of
:02:46. > :02:51.the way. You have clearance, there is a a lot
:02:52. > :02:56.more at stake. That is American sniper territory in
:02:57. > :03:00.some way. Very similar. There are definite comparisons.
:03:01. > :03:05.Films like Drones and A good Kill was a similar thing. This was done
:03:06. > :03:08.well. Essentially what happens in real time as all the interested
:03:09. > :03:12.parties, the military and politicians argue about whether they
:03:13. > :03:16.can proceed legally and morally, politically as well. Despite the
:03:17. > :03:22.fact that it sounds like it could be a drama in which a bunch of people
:03:23. > :03:28.in rooms argue with each other over telephones and video screens, Gavin
:03:29. > :03:32.Hood has made it very cinematic. The man on the ground in Nairobi, he has
:03:33. > :03:36.the trickiest role. He is the man with the sci-fi gadgetry, the board
:03:37. > :03:41.with a camera which stretches credibility slightly. For the rest
:03:42. > :03:44.of the movie, Helen Mirren is in top form. Alan Rickman in his last
:03:45. > :03:48.on-screen role is read as the general who wants to move forward
:03:49. > :03:52.with the mission but is having to do with politicians, they seem to be
:03:53. > :03:56.more concerned with saving face than lives. What the film becomes
:03:57. > :04:00.business discussion of the morality of not just the situation, of
:04:01. > :04:03.Easter, it is melodramatically contrived that you have the terror
:04:04. > :04:08.suspects but also this young girl that is selling bread, which one is
:04:09. > :04:13.more important? But it manages to do with it in a way that is essentially
:04:14. > :04:17.a piece of mainstream entertainment, this should play well in multiplexes
:04:18. > :04:20.but it is ambivalent. It does not tie up that Lucent in the way that
:04:21. > :04:25.you would sometimes expect this type of film to do. It holds its nerve.
:04:26. > :04:31.You had a little better that pulsing score which gives the whole thing a
:04:32. > :04:35.very threatening edge, it reminds me of the tangerine dreams School of
:04:36. > :04:40.sorcery. Well executed screenplay that focuses in on an idea and plays
:04:41. > :04:44.it from every different angle. It is juggled all the way through...
:04:45. > :04:49.It is story about time. It is very contemporary and
:04:50. > :04:53.considering there have been films on this area, it finds its own area. I
:04:54. > :04:56.thought it dealt with it well and I was genuinely gripped watching it.
:04:57. > :05:04.Fan. This is interesting.
:05:05. > :05:12.This is Shah Rukh Khan playing both parts. The story is that the young
:05:13. > :05:16.fan goes to see his idol. He looks like him and he wants to meet him.
:05:17. > :05:20.Inevitably when he tries to meet him he finds himself being not welcomed
:05:21. > :05:24.in. He is like the rejected. His adoration turns to something like
:05:25. > :05:29.aggression. I really enjoyed it. One of the things I do about it, it has
:05:30. > :05:34.lots of action sequences, the chase across the rooftops, that sort of
:05:35. > :05:38.James Bond territory, but it has an underpinning of the King of comedy,
:05:39. > :05:42.other people have said it is like Ms Robach -- Mazzarri, the Stephen King
:05:43. > :05:52.adaptation. But it is played very suddenly. -- Misery. It is hyper
:05:53. > :05:56.stylised. I thought it was gripping and really entertaining. Actually,
:05:57. > :06:00.in some places, it had some real insight into the nature of celebrity
:06:01. > :06:05.and the nature of fandom. Someone said always avoid things
:06:06. > :06:08.with an evil twin, not quite but similar.
:06:09. > :06:14.There is the doppelgangers think which is going on.
:06:15. > :06:19.And lastly, Jungle book. Do not rewrite a hat!
:06:20. > :06:26.I went through that same thing. Very much like Cinderella, it owes much
:06:27. > :06:30.to the literally source. It is a live action reimagining. The only
:06:31. > :06:35.thing that is life, however in the images that you seek is the young
:06:36. > :06:38.guy that plays Mowgli. It is quite extraordinary, firstly because he
:06:39. > :06:41.does resemble the cartoon predecessor and secondly because
:06:42. > :06:45.most of what he's doing in real life is reacting to the blue screen and
:06:46. > :06:57.green screen that is played by Neel Sethi. Here is a clip. I cannot help
:06:58. > :07:05.but notice there is this strange poker.
:07:06. > :07:22.-- order. What is this strange scent? This is some kind of man cup.
:07:23. > :07:33.Moggie belongs to my pack, she can. -- Shere Khan. -- Mowgli.
:07:34. > :07:42.Does my face not remind you of what he grown man can do? Everyone
:07:43. > :07:45.forgets how the law works after a few years when you change a hunting
:07:46. > :07:52.ground. Let me remind you, the man cup becomes man and man is
:07:53. > :07:57.forbidden! I am sold on that.
:07:58. > :08:00.Exactly. There has been suggestions that this is a more dark and
:08:01. > :08:05.dangerous version of the story. There are some scary things in it.
:08:06. > :08:11.But it has some of the songs. It has a bear necessities. And the updated
:08:12. > :08:17.version of the King Louie song. The CGI scenery is lush and teacher into
:08:18. > :08:22.that world. I was a bit in trepidation but I was won over. It
:08:23. > :08:24.is a romp with great action sequences. Secondly, the characters
:08:25. > :08:30.are every bit as likeable as you would like them to be. It owes more
:08:31. > :08:33.to the Kipling than the Disney version. Superbly rendered. Jon
:08:34. > :08:39.Favreau that a great job of the balance between pathos and fear in
:08:40. > :08:42.action. This is the greatest compliment. I would happily go
:08:43. > :08:45.straight back in and watch it again. I thought it was really enchanting
:08:46. > :08:53.and adventurous. I wonder about the work for the beer
:08:54. > :09:00.in Revenant was better? That is why it has been called to
:09:01. > :09:09.The Jungle Book meets Revenant. Your best was Iran for the week. --
:09:10. > :09:13.Ran. Yes, this is a translation of King
:09:14. > :09:18.Lear. It will come to Blu-ray quite soon. If you get a chance to see it
:09:19. > :09:21.in cinemas, it is part of the ongoing Shakespeare celebrations
:09:22. > :09:27.that the BFI have been doing. You do not really need just the DVD, you
:09:28. > :09:32.have to see it on the big screen, they had projected.
:09:33. > :09:37.Your DVD of the leaders Grandma. Mixed reviews of this. Some teenager
:09:38. > :09:45.said it was not for them. They are wrong. It is for everyone.
:09:46. > :09:49.It is 7273 minutes long, perfect length. It is about on alternative
:09:50. > :09:55.lifestyle grandmother who is helping her granddaughter who has had
:09:56. > :09:58.trouble and need advice. Lily Tomlin did brilliant, she won a Golden
:09:59. > :10:01.Globe and she should have been Oscar-nominated. It is about to be
:10:02. > :10:05.that her personal and political situations have changed. I thought
:10:06. > :10:08.it was funny and intelligent and charming but also gritty and had a
:10:09. > :10:14.real edge to it. There were moments in it that make me think this is
:10:15. > :10:20.what is done by a Cinema budget that all types cannot do. Have you yet
:10:21. > :10:26.seen it? 70 something minutes. It deserved your time.
:10:27. > :10:31.Not a bad week. Eye In The Sky, Fan and Jungle book.
:10:32. > :10:33.Both Eye In The Sky and Jungle book are much better than expected either
:10:34. > :10:38.of them to be. A quick reminder, you will find more
:10:39. > :10:43.news and reviews online including our previous shows. That is it for
:10:44. > :10:49.this week. Thank you for watching, enjoy the movies. Goodbye.