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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Why Bother
Well I am 5 months into 2015 and this has got to be just about the worst film I have seen this year! I really am hard pushed to find anything to say about a film that has no plot, was made in 3D Imax and has the worst CGI and special effects that I have seen in a very long time.
It further and worse still, lacks any originality and leaves the Mel Gibson films looking like masterpieces, which lets face it is a long way from the truth although the originals had the benefit of being that original, this particular offering was at very best a poor imitator even with the benefit of all that computer Graphics Interface.
The main core of the film is the almost incessant crash, bang, wallop, and destruction of cars trucks and lorries with literally hundreds of vehicles and their drivers being plastered all over the screen and really that is all that goes on from the first minute onwards leaving me feeling that a better title for this film would be...
How to smash and blow up as many vehicles as you can in two hours. Starring more stuntmen than you can count.
The script was not just poor it was poverty stricken, with unbelievable characters, who pretty much lacked any kind of real personality, in a barren landscape that allowed for unlimited petrol vehicles with Nitro, and hot rod modifications that you would be hard pressed to find pre apocalypse. This film annoyed the hell out of me and I understand it cost $150million I came away from the film with just one single thought Why did they Bother.
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
Was good for Me, even with a denim dress!
As an ageing bloke I do have to say that as period dramas go, and deep romances at that, for the most part this has got to be up there with the best. Well acted, excellent costume, apart from the denim dress of course, I spotted that in the early scenes, but I will forgive them that slip as every other piece of costume appeared to fit with the period.The acting was better than average, the scenery and historical elements were on the money, so overall a very well told and, well produced production of a classic. The story outlines one woman's feelings about three very different men, the rough and rugged, the cool and cultured, and the bad boy, with the story centred on her feelings and actions with all three, and more importantly the affects of those actions. I have to say I ran the whole gamut of emotions from stupid girl, "she cant see what's in front of her face", through to "isn't she lovely". Overall I have to say its a terrific film with a really good story, engaging characters that is based on the Thomas Hardy classic so if you like a well crafted and acted piece of cinematography and are not looking for the "Marvel" comics thrills and spills it's a must see that will leave you felling more than a little satisfied!
Seventh Son (2014)
Lacking originality
As films of this genre go it's well filmed with a reasonable script, some very good Imax stuff in both the CGI, dragons, demons, and monsters that are liberally sprinkled throughout and that rise up from the underworld a plenty, unfortunately none are original enough to be worth remembering; which is probably the best overall impression I can give you for the film as a whole not very memorable.
The Soundtrack creates great atmosphere at times in what is to all intents and purposes a reasonably engaging film, just lacking originality!
The actors all deliver their lines well enough, although I do have to say Mr Bridges at times is so concentrating on the character he has created, that he does mumble and the words get lost somewhere in his beard.
The downside, if downside is the right word is that there is little that is original or makes it stand apart, unfortunately most of the ideas that make up the plot seem to have come from many of the others films that share this genre, with some very close attachments to LOTR, and the Hobbit at times.
It's not that the plot copies the leaders in the field its just that there isn't a far enough divide and for me; as such spoilt a film that promised so much at the outset, and turned out as a prety average end product. That's not to say I didn't enjoy it I did, I just hoped for more.
Wild Card (2015)
Statham as Only Statham can Do
This film ain't Mary Poppins and there is no doubt you don't go to see one of Jason Statham's films for culture or intellectual stimuli. You can be 100 percent certain however that it does have style and quality bought about by the post production and editing that glues it all together, and raises it a notch or two higher than the average blood fest that some films in this genre exemplify.
Some of the cinematography is spectacular and accomplished, graphic, and well finessed, and is a definite reason to watch; that is of course if that kind of violence is your thing.
This is a festival of graphic violence and slow-mo fight scenes, choreographed like ballet and some staggeringly cringe worthy suggestive violence that will make most blokes thank almighty God it isn't them on the receiving end!
It is also very funny film with a reasonable plot, and some very credible gangster acting from the supporting cast. I went to see this film pretty much knowing what I was going to get and I didn't come away disappointed.
Don't get me wrong I don't love violence in films , but when it is done this well you just have to give it a nod of appreciation, for what is Statham all the way as only Statham can do it......
Chappie (2015)
Why would you bother
This film is just about OK to watch if you have nothing else to see. The plot is thin, the characters inconsistent and totally unbelievable, turning from bad guys, to good guys, and back again, loads of slow-mo violence, bullets piercing bodies and more explosive special effects than you can shake a stick at.
That said some of the characterisations are a tad above the norm with the everywhere man Dev Patel being perhaps the low point on that score. Some of the other characters if characters is the right word in a film that bordered on the cartoon at some points, being so outrageous in their behaviour as to make you hope they get what is surely coming to them and for most of them, it did usually in a hail of bullets.
All of that aside this film was I suggest never meant to be serious, and was intended to be the first in perhaps a franchise of many more.
The film left it wide open for a Chappie Two with all of the main characters morphing at the end into something new. The big question is whether you could be bothered to see a sequel, in my case I think not, even though this film was one step beyond being a very funny film indeed, leaving me not quite sure if I loved it or hated it!