:00:00. > :00:28.Hello, welcome to The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this
:00:29. > :00:33.week's releases is Jason Solomons. Good to see you, what have you been
:00:34. > :00:41.watching this week? We go to Paris for the final portrait of Swiss
:00:42. > :00:45.artist Alberto and his patient subject. And the film directed by
:00:46. > :00:49.Stanley Tucci. Then the weather is on the agenda. As it always is at
:00:50. > :00:57.the weekend but this time it's extreme weather as we follow Al Gore
:00:58. > :01:01.and a series of presentations around the Inconvenient sequel, a follow-up
:01:02. > :01:09.to the Oscar-winning Inconvenient Truth. And in The Hitman's
:01:10. > :01:13.Bodyguard, Ryan Reynolds meets Samuel L Jackson and it's love at
:01:14. > :01:17.first sight, well, not really. Final portrait, I am a massive Stanley
:01:18. > :01:20.Tucci fan as an actor. He has directed before, I don't think I
:01:21. > :01:26.have seen any of them looking at the list. How does this work out? There
:01:27. > :01:34.was a famous one where he played a restaurant owner with his brother.
:01:35. > :01:36.Stanley doesn't pop up in this film although Tony who played his brother
:01:37. > :01:43.does, playing a brother interestingly. This is a story I
:01:44. > :01:49.didn't know and a story Stanley Tucci, was strolling around in Paris
:01:50. > :01:54.years ago and picked up this memoir of an American writer called James
:01:55. > :02:03.Lord. This is what the story is based on. James Lord himself is his
:02:04. > :02:08.memoir. If you know his work and there is an exhibition at the Tate
:02:09. > :02:13.in fact, I urge you to see that, this does feature that work. He got
:02:14. > :02:19.famous for the sculptures trying to get to the essence of humanity in an
:02:20. > :02:23.absurd word. Stanley Tucci doesn't concentrate on the dark heart, more
:02:24. > :02:26.the struggle of the ash to say and the pain it is to sit for that
:02:27. > :02:30.artist because he can't make up his mind when the work is finished, if
:02:31. > :02:36.ever. Here they're trying to work out how long he should book a
:02:37. > :02:42.vacation for. The end of the week, yeah. I see. I could change it
:02:43. > :02:48.again. I would like to know how many days do you need? I don't know. I
:02:49. > :02:58.think it would be great to work for another week. A week? A week, yes, I
:02:59. > :03:05.think a week would be good. No, a week is fine. That's fine. I can
:03:06. > :03:11.just move my flight to next Wednesday, would that? Wednesday.
:03:12. > :03:19.Yes. Wednesday is good. Fine. Let's say Wednesday. OK. Good. But then,
:03:20. > :03:27.you know. What? There is no question of the portrait ever being finished.
:03:28. > :03:30.No, of course. And that's the great Geoffrey Rush. It is. Sometimes I
:03:31. > :03:36.love him and sometimes he can be, what we call a ham. He can dominate
:03:37. > :03:43.the film, unbalances it. I did worry about him here. He is quite sort of
:03:44. > :03:47.reined in there, there is a lot of smoking and staring at pictures,
:03:48. > :03:55.challenging portraits, like are you talking to me? We also get a lot of
:03:56. > :04:00.the scrape of the art, the stuff, where he worked is beautifully
:04:01. > :04:05.captured by the same cameraman from The King's Speech. This bit is very
:04:06. > :04:12.well done. The film takes a lot of life from the cafe Paris kind of
:04:13. > :04:16.stuff, the stuff that Stanley Tucci relishes in, cafe scene where is
:04:17. > :04:20.they drink wine and hard boiled eggs and meet prostitutes and swirl
:04:21. > :04:23.around and it's that art, it's a romantic vision of the artist you
:04:24. > :04:30.want from a film about an artist in Paris. You get that struggle but
:04:31. > :04:35.also the flamboyance and indulgence with that romanticively. It's
:04:36. > :04:38.Stanley Tucci film, he is very much there, it's a character actor
:04:39. > :04:43.directing. He is indulgent to the acting and let's the funny bits stay
:04:44. > :04:48.in there. It's a serious subject but it's very elegantly and lightly
:04:49. > :04:52.done. It's enjoyable. The way you describe the cafe scenes, I love
:04:53. > :04:59.that, visually it's fantastic. But it can be a cliche. Absolutely. It
:05:00. > :05:06.almost goes there and deals with a new subject, a fresh and he is
:05:07. > :05:11.almost the audience oh, God I have to put up this with annoying
:05:12. > :05:16.prostitute coming in and taking attention away from me. Never being
:05:17. > :05:23.able to be on time or finish this portrait. It's very much about that,
:05:24. > :05:32.I think it's done beautifully here. The artist at work. And Inconvenient
:05:33. > :05:37.sequel, I got nervous, because you said flip chart. I think it's power
:05:38. > :05:42.point presentation these days. In the first it was, an inconvenient
:05:43. > :05:50.truth was a huge success and... Won an Oscar. It also changed perception
:05:51. > :05:53.of Al Gore, who was this dull politician at the time and what it
:05:54. > :05:57.did, it was shown in schools everywhere, it sort of proved that
:05:58. > :06:01.climate change was happening. It seemed up necessary to do so now but
:06:02. > :06:06.unfortunately obviously, Al Gore seems to feel the need to do so. His
:06:07. > :06:10.life has changed much. He narrowly missed out on being President and he
:06:11. > :06:13.has become this travelling salesman for climate change going around
:06:14. > :06:17.teaching people how to do fairly dull presentations on a power point
:06:18. > :06:21.around the world but also we get a film in which extreme weather
:06:22. > :06:23.features. It's cinematic extreme weather, unfortunately. But there is
:06:24. > :06:27.is also the fact that some people still don't believe this stuff is
:06:28. > :06:32.happening. He still needs to convince people. I need no
:06:33. > :06:36.convincing that fracking is probably not good for the earth and wind
:06:37. > :06:40.turbines and solar panels are, but it's difficult to get the world to
:06:41. > :06:44.turn around. It's a look at this. Unfortunately, Jane, and I say this
:06:45. > :06:49.with heavy heart, it's really boring. OK. Oh, no! Because I was
:06:50. > :06:53.just watching the clips we are playing here, I was thinking this
:06:54. > :06:56.looks like a busman's holiday for a journalist, looks like possibly a
:06:57. > :06:59.interesting documentary and I am thinking are people going to pay
:07:00. > :07:05.whatever they pay now to see it at the cinema? I mean, if they did,
:07:06. > :07:11.it's supposed to be a cure for non-believers in climate change, I
:07:12. > :07:14.think it's more a cure for insomnia. Spectacular as glaciers are, they're
:07:15. > :07:20.moving at a faster pace than this film. The cause itself needed a much
:07:21. > :07:24.better film, a more inspiring film than it gets. It looks like
:07:25. > :07:30.propaganda for the people who believe in climate change, it's an
:07:31. > :07:34.easy stick to beat people. Look how boring that film is. It's a shame
:07:35. > :07:39.because it's a vitally important subject treated with deathly dull
:07:40. > :07:44.scenario. All right. Hitman's Bodyguard, is that boring? I
:07:45. > :07:47.wouldn't call it boring. Although it is interesting because it's supposed
:07:48. > :07:53.to be this light-hearted summer caper in which the light-hearted
:07:54. > :07:59.Ryan Reynolds who we have seen in Deadpool as a foul-mouthed superhero
:08:00. > :08:07.and Samuel L Jackson, famous for his expletives and the works of
:08:08. > :08:13.Tarantino. They couldn't get John Travolta so they got Ryan Reynolds.
:08:14. > :08:20.You definitely get a first here, there is a sort of gun fight and car
:08:21. > :08:22.battle on the streets of Coventry, which has probably never happened in
:08:23. > :08:27.cinema history before. Congratulations for that. Ryan
:08:28. > :08:33.Reynolds is supposed to be Escorting Samuel L Jackson to the Hague where
:08:34. > :08:38.he is going to give witness at the trial of a Russian warLord played by
:08:39. > :08:42.Gary Oldman doing a Russian accent. But they argue, they get lost. Of
:08:43. > :08:47.course because they feel that the film is flagging they must get a
:08:48. > :09:08.laugh by having the two of them hide away with nuns on the run. OK.
:09:09. > :09:32.OK. You just told me that was the best bit. It's one of the bits we
:09:33. > :09:37.can show. There is no swearing or violence. It's very flippant and
:09:38. > :09:42.that's all fine. Then non-stop violence and some of it you want to
:09:43. > :09:46.treat in a cartoonish way but in Tom and Jerry they get squashed, it's
:09:47. > :09:54.funny. The violence felt real, it hurts. Yet no one is getting hurt.
:09:55. > :09:56.Inconsequential violence becomes dull, almost soul-destroying while
:09:57. > :10:00.you watch so much of it, I felt that. It's not the language, some is
:10:01. > :10:04.colourful and swearing, it can be fun. It isn't in this. Even when
:10:05. > :10:08.they have a fight in a store and a canal in Amsterdam it never reaches,
:10:09. > :10:16.the fighting isn't funny and seeses to be so. When you say is it boring,
:10:17. > :10:21.yes, I found it dull in that respect, it wasn't inventful
:10:22. > :10:25.fighting. I thought it was plodding and reduced to Ryan Reynolds saying
:10:26. > :10:30.you are going to swear again in a minute. He does. What is the best
:10:31. > :10:37.out? If you haven't been on holiday this year or have stayed in the UK
:10:38. > :10:55.and it's been wet how about a summer holiday with The Odyssey, it's about
:10:56. > :11:01.a French Jacques Cousteau. He was remarkable in what he did. This is
:11:02. > :11:08.about him, and his marriage and his son. It's a very French film. Look
:11:09. > :11:15.at those hats, you couldn't get better than that. This is also about
:11:16. > :11:19.ecology and other sort of clips of the Antarctic that we saw in the Al
:11:20. > :11:24.Gore movie. It strikes me it would be a better place without all these
:11:25. > :11:28.film crews. It's the most beautiful film of the summer. The DVD, a blast
:11:29. > :11:34.from the past you brought us. I don't want to make anyone feel old
:11:35. > :11:40.or young, 50 years old it is this year, it's out on DVD, The Graduate
:11:41. > :12:08.with Dustin Hoffman. Anne BancrOFT is the older woman
:12:09. > :12:12.playing on Hoffman. It's still pretty crazy after all those years.
:12:13. > :12:17.Thank you very much. My highlight this week may be your Russian
:12:18. > :12:20.accent, we can discuss that later. Lovely to see you. Thank you very
:12:21. > :12:24.much. That's just about it for this week.
:12:25. > :12:28.Enjoy your cinema-going. Thank you for watching. See you next time,
:12:29. > :12:39.bye. Hello. Good evening. The weekend is
:12:40. > :12:40.here. The prospects look good for many parts of