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Redirected (2014)
Mad Lithuanians Vs Cockney Geezers
Redirected has all the hallmarks of a Guy Ritchie film except it's not. This movie is directed by a Lithuanian who goes by the name of Emilis Velyvis and is the first time he has directed an English/Lithuanian cast, successfully I must add . Not only has he made a cracking film, he has thrown in a bit of gangster action, comedy and a bunch of Lithuanians fighting cockney geezers. This is probably the best film that Vinnie Jones has starred in (one that he actually has a speaking part) since Mean Machine (aye I liked it n whit?). Also starring Scot Williams, Gil Darnell and Oliver Jackson. If you are a fan of Lock Stock, Snatch and RocknRolla (we all know that Revolver was an abortion) then you'll be a fan of this movie.
Nightcrawler (2014)
Sociopath is winning
Nightcrawler. Starring Jake Gyllenhall, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed and Bill Paxton. Directed by Dan Gilroy (Reel Steel and Bourne Supremacy). Lou Bloom is unemployed desperate for work sociopath; he is desperate to enter the murky world of crime journalism after an accidental collision with other freelance camera crews, he gets an insight into the cut throat business of night crawling for hard line news. With every police and fire engine siren or a gunshot noise comes big bucks and a step forward in his pursuit for being accepted as well as respected in Lou Bloom's new field of work. With a ruthless business plan, he will stop at nothing to get to where he wants be. People are a formality to Lou and "to win the lottery you need to earn the money to buy the lottery ticket". You won't see a better thriller in the last couple of years. Jake Gyllenhall, Rene Russo and Britain's own Riz Ahmed give great individual performances. In my opinion, this film should be nominated for an academy award. If you haven't checked this film out then make it a priority. You won't regret it. 7.5/10
'71 (2014)
Review of 71 with 1 minor spoiler
71
'71' I imagine is the year this film is set as in 1971. In that year Gunner Robert Curtis was the first British Casualty during the troubles and in the following month was the death of the 3 Scottish Soldiers from the Royal Highland Fusiliers which 2 of them where brothers, they where off-duty and led astray by a group of females who set the trap for the IRA to execute them in cold blooded murder. 71 starring Jack O'Connell, Sam Reid, Sean Harris and Paul Popplewell as well another few familiar faces from RTE's award winning crime drama LOVE/HATE, tells the story of a fresh faced new recruit who is thrown straight into the deep end in his first tour of duty into the mean streets of Belfast in Northern Ireland. Private Gary Hook's (Jack O'Connell) first assignment turns sour and somehow he manages to get left behind. The film follows his journey as he tries to make good use of the his new found military training in order to get home safe and sound. Overall, I thought the performances from each actor where absolutely fine. Sean Harris is really good at playing a guy who's mission is to be an arsehole isn't he? Jack O'Connell has been described as emerging talent however real British film heads know that he has been circling the big time for quite a while and is now being head hunted by Hollywood's elite and rightly so. He is very convincing in his role, sometimes showing a new recruits naivety, an innocence that's not yet been ripped right out of him. As they say in boxing, you can only knock out what's put in front of you and in this case that is what Jack O'Connell is doing. My problem with the film is this, whoever wrote this crap, didn't think about it all. I can see that he tried to get some things right in terms of the touts (IRA or Republicans who became informants for MI5, British Army etc), the street riots and the ruthlessness of the paramilitaries on both sides of the divide but the whole British Army supplying the U.V.F with a Semtex bomb to use on the IRA is a bit controversial in my eyes. Did any of you catch the name of the General of the UVF who owned the pub? Billy Fullerton. Aye, they took the name from a guy who started a razor gang called the Billy Boys in Glasgow who where Protestant in faith and often fought with a gang of Catholic boys from the same city called the Tim Malloy's. That name in some quarters is controversial and has caused many an argument and even murder between men women and children in my home city of Glasgow because of what some people think it represents. To me the writer Gregory Burke has tried to be smart but looks like a complete over thinking masterbator (I can't use the word I would to describe him). I'm not going to go into the ending because for me it's quite sickening in a sense that it's one big load of cods wallop. This is a pure fantasy non fictional story created by someone who knows sweet Eff all about the troubles and certainly didn't research it from the British, Loyalist and Republican sides. The fact that Gregory Burke has chosen 71 as the name and then thrown a very controversial storyline is quite sickening and disrespectful to our fallen on that year and in some ways it's disrespectful to both sides of the divides intelligence. A line in the film says, the posh boys train the idiots to kill the poor. That can be construed in the soldiers training weather it be a Brit, Loyalist or Republican. If you like movies that are very very loosely based on a war, then this is for you however if you understand what this is based on, you'll find it to be a complete insult.
I'd give this film a 6 out of 10 and it's lucky it's getting that
If however like so many, couldn't give a monkeys about the troubles and would like to watch a guerrilla war film that has a story of sadness, despair and treachery? Then you will absolutely love this film.
Interstellar (2014)
Interstellar
Interstellar adjective – occurring or situated between stars. Is exactly how I felt last night whilst watching this masterpiece of a movie. Christopher and Jonathan Nolan are taking the cinema going world as close as they will probably get to see what Interstellar travel will look like and by god was it mesmerizing. I found myself saying out loud "WOW" like I was kid who had just seen a pair a boobs in page 3 for the first time. You can be forgiven for thinking you where probably going to see a good film because I wasn't prepared for the sheer quality of every aspect that the film possess. Even after the movie was finished I was still thinking it all out in my head which caused me to take wrong turns when I was driving home because my mind was still trying to process what I had just seen. Matthew McConaughey is such a great actor and I think those cheesy shite house films that he was previously involved in didn't have the storyline or the intelligence to show you how good an actor this guy is. It almost seems like when he took those RomCom roles that maybe he didn't believe in himself as an actor but boy does he believe in himself now. I'm going to put it out there that he is the best actor of our generation. He carried out his role with precision. He had the full cinema in the palm of his hand but let's not forget the rest of the cast who held their own in this movie. Anne Hathaway should win best supporting role at the Oscars and Michael Caine was well, Michael Caine, a man who can play any role with conviction. If you are going to see this film, make sure you go to an IMAX to see it because it was certainly made for it The wall of sound and vibrations and the cinematography was just perfection. It wasn't just a good movie but I feel like I have witnessed an epic event. Interstellar was intense, gripping, emotional and is the most thought provoking film I have ever seen and by the end I felt like standing up and shouting for more. This is my first ever 10 for a film.