Final Portrait, An Inconvenient Sequel, The Hitman's Bodyguard The Film Review


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Hello, welcome to The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this

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week's releases is Jason Solomons. Good to see you, what have you been

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watching this week? We go to Paris for the final portrait of Swiss

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artist Alberto and his patient subject. And the film directed by

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Stanley Tucci. Then the weather is on the agenda. As it always is at

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the weekend but this time it's extreme weather as we follow Al Gore

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and a series of presentations around the Inconvenient sequel, a follow-up

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to the Oscar-winning Inconvenient Truth. And in The Hitman's

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Bodyguard, Ryan Reynolds meets Samuel L Jackson and it's love at

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first sight, well, not really. Final portrait, I am a massive Stanley

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Tucci fan as an actor. He has directed before, I don't think I

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have seen any of them looking at the list. How does this work out? There

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was a famous one where he played a restaurant owner with his brother.

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Stanley doesn't pop up in this film although Tony who played his brother

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does, playing a brother interestingly. This is a story I

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didn't know and a story Stanley Tucci, was strolling around in Paris

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years ago and picked up this memoir of an American writer called James

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Lord. This is what the story is based on. James Lord himself is his

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memoir. If you know his work and there is an exhibition at the Tate

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in fact, I urge you to see that, this does feature that work. He got

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famous for the sculptures trying to get to the essence of humanity in an

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absurd word. Stanley Tucci doesn't concentrate on the dark heart, more

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the struggle of the ash to say and the pain it is to sit for that

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artist because he can't make up his mind when the work is finished, if

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ever. Here they're trying to work out how long he should book a

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vacation for. The end of the week, yeah. I see. I could change it

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again. I would like to know how many days do you need? I don't know. I

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think it would be great to work for another week. A week? A week, yes, I

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think a week would be good. No, a week is fine. That's fine. I can

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just move my flight to next Wednesday, would that? Wednesday.

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Yes. Wednesday is good. Fine. Let's say Wednesday. OK. Good. But then,

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you know. What? There is no question of the portrait ever being finished.

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No, of course. And that's the great Geoffrey Rush. It is. Sometimes I

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love him and sometimes he can be, what we call a ham. He can dominate

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the film, unbalances it. I did worry about him here. He is quite sort of

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reined in there, there is a lot of smoking and staring at pictures,

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challenging portraits, like are you talking to me? We also get a lot of

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the scrape of the art, the stuff, where he worked is beautifully

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captured by the same cameraman from The King's Speech. This bit is very

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well done. The film takes a lot of life from the cafe Paris kind of

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stuff, the stuff that Stanley Tucci relishes in, cafe scene where is

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they drink wine and hard boiled eggs and meet prostitutes and swirl

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around and it's that art, it's a romantic vision of the artist you

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want from a film about an artist in Paris. You get that struggle but

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also the flamboyance and indulgence with that romanticively. It's

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Stanley Tucci film, he is very much there, it's a character actor

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directing. He is indulgent to the acting and let's the funny bits stay

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in there. It's a serious subject but it's very elegantly and lightly

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done. It's enjoyable. The way you describe the cafe scenes, I love

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that, visually it's fantastic. But it can be a cliche. Absolutely. It

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almost goes there and deals with a new subject, a fresh and he is

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almost the audience oh, God I have to put up this with annoying

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prostitute coming in and taking attention away from me. Never being

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able to be on time or finish this portrait. It's very much about that,

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I think it's done beautifully here. The artist at work. And Inconvenient

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sequel, I got nervous, because you said flip chart. I think it's power

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point presentation these days. In the first it was, an inconvenient

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truth was a huge success and... Won an Oscar. It also changed perception

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of Al Gore, who was this dull politician at the time and what it

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did, it was shown in schools everywhere, it sort of proved that

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climate change was happening. It seemed up necessary to do so now but

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unfortunately obviously, Al Gore seems to feel the need to do so. His

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life has changed much. He narrowly missed out on being President and he

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has become this travelling salesman for climate change going around

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teaching people how to do fairly dull presentations on a power point

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around the world but also we get a film in which extreme weather

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features. It's cinematic extreme weather, unfortunately. But there is

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is also the fact that some people still don't believe this stuff is

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happening. He still needs to convince people. I need no

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convincing that fracking is probably not good for the earth and wind

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turbines and solar panels are, but it's difficult to get the world to

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turn around. It's a look at this. Unfortunately, Jane, and I say this

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with heavy heart, it's really boring. OK. Oh, no! Because I was

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just watching the clips we are playing here, I was thinking this

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looks like a busman's holiday for a journalist, looks like possibly a

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interesting documentary and I am thinking are people going to pay

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whatever they pay now to see it at the cinema? I mean, if they did,

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it's supposed to be a cure for non-believers in climate change, I

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think it's more a cure for insomnia. Spectacular as glaciers are, they're

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moving at a faster pace than this film. The cause itself needed a much

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better film, a more inspiring film than it gets. It looks like

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propaganda for the people who believe in climate change, it's an

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easy stick to beat people. Look how boring that film is. It's a shame

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because it's a vitally important subject treated with deathly dull

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scenario. All right. Hitman's Bodyguard, is that boring? I

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wouldn't call it boring. Although it is interesting because it's supposed

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to be this light-hearted summer caper in which the light-hearted

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Ryan Reynolds who we have seen in Deadpool as a foul-mouthed superhero

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and Samuel L Jackson, famous for his expletives and the works of

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Tarantino. They couldn't get John Travolta so they got Ryan Reynolds.

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You definitely get a first here, there is a sort of gun fight and car

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battle on the streets of Coventry, which has probably never happened in

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cinema history before. Congratulations for that. Ryan

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Reynolds is supposed to be Escorting Samuel L Jackson to the Hague where

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he is going to give witness at the trial of a Russian warLord played by

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Gary Oldman doing a Russian accent. But they argue, they get lost. Of

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course because they feel that the film is flagging they must get a

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laugh by having the two of them hide away with nuns on the run. OK.

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OK. You just told me that was the best bit. It's one of the bits we

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can show. There is no swearing or violence. It's very flippant and

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that's all fine. Then non-stop violence and some of it you want to

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treat in a cartoonish way but in Tom and Jerry they get squashed, it's

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funny. The violence felt real, it hurts. Yet no one is getting hurt.

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Inconsequential violence becomes dull, almost soul-destroying while

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you watch so much of it, I felt that. It's not the language, some is

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colourful and swearing, it can be fun. It isn't in this. Even when

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they have a fight in a store and a canal in Amsterdam it never reaches,

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the fighting isn't funny and seeses to be so. When you say is it boring,

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yes, I found it dull in that respect, it wasn't inventful

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fighting. I thought it was plodding and reduced to Ryan Reynolds saying

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you are going to swear again in a minute. He does. What is the best

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out? If you haven't been on holiday this year or have stayed in the UK

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and it's been wet how about a summer holiday with The Odyssey, it's about

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a French Jacques Cousteau. He was remarkable in what he did. This is

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about him, and his marriage and his son. It's a very French film. Look

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at those hats, you couldn't get better than that. This is also about

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ecology and other sort of clips of the Antarctic that we saw in the Al

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Gore movie. It strikes me it would be a better place without all these

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film crews. It's the most beautiful film of the summer. The DVD, a blast

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from the past you brought us. I don't want to make anyone feel old

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or young, 50 years old it is this year, it's out on DVD, The Graduate

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with Dustin Hoffman. Anne BancrOFT is the older woman

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playing on Hoffman. It's still pretty crazy after all those years.

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Thank you very much. My highlight this week may be your Russian

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accent, we can discuss that later. Lovely to see you. Thank you very

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much. That's just about it for this week.

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Enjoy your cinema-going. Thank you for watching. See you next time,

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bye. Hello. Good evening. The weekend is

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here. The prospects look good for many parts of

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