Eye in the Sky, Shah Rukh, The Jungle Book The Film Review

Andy Murray looks back to his best at the Monte Carlo Masters. All that

and more at 6:30pm. Now it is time for The Film Review.

Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News.

To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode.

So, Mark, what do we have this week?

What do we have? It has been a very good week. We

have Eye In The Sky, and intelligent war thriller.

We also have Fan. And we have The Jungle Book. A live

action, or is reimagining of the Kipling classic.

This is by Gavin Hood. The story is that there is a grown machine and

Nairobi. We watched the mission playing out on the screens of those

in charge of running the mission in London, Nevada and elsewhere. Helen

Mirren is the no-nonsense colonel who has been tracking a particular

terror suspect. They end up any house where there are a number of

people that they are trying to get. Our mission is to capture, not kill.

When it is evident that a suicide mission is imminent, she wants is a

strike. However, Aaron Paul, the Nevada pilot, piloting the drone,

one not engage. Because into the target area comes a young girl. You

is a clip. -- here is a clip. I will give her time

to walk through. Lieutenant, we have this one

opportunity, let us not lose it. Those men are bound

to disperse, engage now. If I can see them moving or this

girl was in the radius, but I want to give her a chance to get out of

the way. You have clearance, there is a a lot

more at stake. That is American sniper territory in

some way. Very similar. There are definite comparisons.

Films like Drones and A good Kill was a similar thing. This was done

well. Essentially what happens in real time as all the interested

parties, the military and politicians argue about whether they

can proceed legally and morally, politically as well. Despite the

fact that it sounds like it could be a drama in which a bunch of people

in rooms argue with each other over telephones and video screens, Gavin

Hood has made it very cinematic. The man on the ground in Nairobi, he has

the trickiest role. He is the man with the sci-fi gadgetry, the board

with a camera which stretches credibility slightly. For the rest

of the movie, Helen Mirren is in top form. Alan Rickman in his last

on-screen role is read as the general who wants to move forward

with the mission but is having to do with politicians, they seem to be

more concerned with saving face than lives. What the film becomes

business discussion of the morality of not just the situation, of

Easter, it is melodramatically contrived that you have the terror

suspects but also this young girl that is selling bread, which one is

more important? But it manages to do with it in a way that is essentially

a piece of mainstream entertainment, this should play well in multiplexes

but it is ambivalent. It does not tie up that Lucent in the way that

you would sometimes expect this type of film to do. It holds its nerve.

You had a little better that pulsing score which gives the whole thing a

very threatening edge, it reminds me of the tangerine dreams School of

sorcery. Well executed screenplay that focuses in on an idea and plays

it from every different angle. It is juggled all the way through...

It is story about time. It is very contemporary and

considering there have been films on this area, it finds its own area. I

thought it dealt with it well and I was genuinely gripped watching it.

Fan. This is interesting.

This is Shah Rukh Khan playing both parts. The story is that the young

fan goes to see his idol. He looks like him and he wants to meet him.

Inevitably when he tries to meet him he finds himself being not welcomed

in. He is like the rejected. His adoration turns to something like

aggression. I really enjoyed it. One of the things I do about it, it has

lots of action sequences, the chase across the rooftops, that sort of

James Bond territory, but it has an underpinning of the King of comedy,

other people have said it is like Ms Robach -- Mazzarri, the Stephen King

adaptation. But it is played very suddenly. -- Misery. It is hyper

stylised. I thought it was gripping and really entertaining. Actually,

in some places, it had some real insight into the nature of celebrity

and the nature of fandom. Someone said always avoid things

with an evil twin, not quite but similar.

There is the doppelgangers think which is going on.

And lastly, Jungle book. Do not rewrite a hat!

I went through that same thing. Very much like Cinderella, it owes much

to the literally source. It is a live action reimagining. The only

thing that is life, however in the images that you seek is the young

guy that plays Mowgli. It is quite extraordinary, firstly because he

does resemble the cartoon predecessor and secondly because

most of what he's doing in real life is reacting to the blue screen and

green screen that is played by Neel Sethi. Here is a clip. I cannot help

but notice there is this strange poker.

-- order. What is this strange scent? This is some kind of man cup.

Moggie belongs to my pack, she can. -- Shere Khan. -- Mowgli.

Does my face not remind you of what he grown man can do? Everyone

forgets how the law works after a few years when you change a hunting

ground. Let me remind you, the man cup becomes man and man is

forbidden! I am sold on that.

Exactly. There has been suggestions that this is a more dark and

dangerous version of the story. There are some scary things in it.

But it has some of the songs. It has a bear necessities. And the updated

version of the King Louie song. The CGI scenery is lush and teacher into

that world. I was a bit in trepidation but I was won over. It

is a romp with great action sequences. Secondly, the characters

are every bit as likeable as you would like them to be. It owes more

to the Kipling than the Disney version. Superbly rendered. Jon

Favreau that a great job of the balance between pathos and fear in

action. This is the greatest compliment. I would happily go

straight back in and watch it again. I thought it was really enchanting

and adventurous. I wonder about the work for the beer

in Revenant was better? That is why it has been called to

The Jungle Book meets Revenant. Your best was Iran for the week. --

Ran. Yes, this is a translation of King

Lear. It will come to Blu-ray quite soon. If you get a chance to see it

in cinemas, it is part of the ongoing Shakespeare celebrations

that the BFI have been doing. You do not really need just the DVD, you

have to see it on the big screen, they had projected.

Your DVD of the leaders Grandma. Mixed reviews of this. Some teenager

said it was not for them. They are wrong. It is for everyone.

It is 7273 minutes long, perfect length. It is about on alternative

lifestyle grandmother who is helping her granddaughter who has had

trouble and need advice. Lily Tomlin did brilliant, she won a Golden

Globe and she should have been Oscar-nominated. It is about to be

that her personal and political situations have changed. I thought

it was funny and intelligent and charming but also gritty and had a

real edge to it. There were moments in it that make me think this is

what is done by a Cinema budget that all types cannot do. Have you yet

seen it? 70 something minutes. It deserved your time.

Not a bad week. Eye In The Sky, Fan and Jungle book.

Both Eye In The Sky and Jungle book are much better than expected either

of them to be. A quick reminder, you will find more

news and reviews online including our previous shows. That is it for

this week. Thank you for watching, enjoy the movies. Goodbye.