This is nothing but a highly political and really bad ad for the UK National Health Service. The plot was appalling, with promising sparks leading to damp squibs. Nothing made sense. I had expected yet another of those charming ensemble movies that have been churned out lately, where a fairly mundane and predictable scenario is lifted into reasonable entertainment by the quality of the cast. Instead we get...
nothing much. Bleakness. A disjointed structure. Totally unlikely scenarios. The adviser to the far right government health minister, the man behind the closure of small aged care hospitals, goes to inspect the small aged care hospital where his father is a patient? Really? Oh, and of course he's gay. That's compulsory now, apparently. What these actors were doing in this mess is hard to understand. Maybe they thought it was a worthy cause. If so, they were wrong.
Review of Allelujah
