Reviews

Wow. How did Clive Owen ever get cast in such an important role? His acting in this movie is beyond terrible. The rest of the movie had potential to be OK. The fight scenes were well enough directed (though not as good as those from Gladiator) and the rest of the knights each embraced their own characters well but I just couldn't enjoy all that because every line spoken by Owen destroyed any suspension of belief. It was as if he was a fourteen year old reading from a book to the class in an English lesson.

Do yourself a favour. Watch Gladiator or Troy or if you really want something Arthurian watch Excalibur. Or Monty Python and the Holy Grail :-)

It is a rare thing indeed to come across a movie that so beautifully (pardon the pun) draws together cinematography, story and soundtrack to produce something profoundly moving. And this is it.

I still struggle to believe that I could love a movie set in such humdrum circumstances (basically a middle class suburb in America) so much. It's totally about the characters and their development and as such has several of the most convincing characters I've seen in any movie ever. Despite being a self confessed stereotypical male sci-fi lover, this is my favourite movie of all time. And there are no space ships.

See it, you'll be glad you did. Then see it again.

When this movie first came out there was a lot of hype and I was keen to see it. Unfortunately (at least I believed it was unfortunate at the time), I never got around to it and so it was consigned to the "I'll get the video out one day" bucket.

Recently, it was screened on TV so I recorded it. I was excited. I had waited a 7 years for this. And that is the why I forced myself to sit through the whole thing despite the signs being bad initially, falling to awful, then 'oh my god' and somehow still managing to sink further by the end.

This is the first time I've ever written a review of a movie for IMDB but was compelled to do so to try to save others from the suffering I endured as a result of this movie.

To name but a few of the very worst elements (and I really am skipping a *lot* of other bad things): i) Continuous "cool" "attitude" from the "sexy" heroine. Note the usage quotes to indicate those terms I believe to be woefully misused. By the end I really *really* wanted the bad guys to kill her. ii) Mutants (including Ice-T!!) dressed up as human kangaroos. Suspension of disbelief became challenging at this point. iii) "Humour" on a par with that of David Brent in The Office. For those who haven't seen The Office, David Brent is the ultimate exponent of not-funny-but-thinks-he-is and the point of the program is largely how cretinous he really is. Actually, Tank girl's writers were possibly worse. iv) No, sorry, can't really go on as the flashbacks are too painful.

Tank Girl has now taken the crown as the worst movie I have ever seen away from Highlander 2. I really didn't believe it possible, but there you go.