I went to see this on Friday night. It was very much ‘Rafe’ Fiennes being er, well Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz being naked and pregnant. A bit too naked and pregnant for a Friday night to be honest. Put the wibbly-wobbly cellulite AWAY, I’m trying to eat my popcorn here.
It wasn’t too bad, but it was rather in your face. HERE are some poor Africans, LOOK! And HERE are some more poor Africans being screwed by the west. And HERE are some Africans being screwed by other Africans. And here’s Pete Poselthwaite with a silly accent. Very subtle altogether. Now don’t get me wrong, it was a pretty good movie, the cinematography was absolutely beautiful, but the source material… Well, I’ve never been a one for the thrillers. Especially when there really isn’t any mystery to who the murderers are. And lets not forget about the cliched ‘best friend in love with the wife’ and ‘evil head of the British Consulate’ nor the ‘best friend reading out the secret letter at the eulogy.’
Oops sorry, have I spoiled it for you?
It reminded me somewhat of The Insider, or maybe that was just the soundtrack. I can only surmise that Alberto Iglesias (what? there’s another one?) had been listening to Lisa Gerrard and Graeme Revell before he sat down to the piano.
Rachel Weisz was pretty good despite the numerous naked shots, I’m gonne guess that it’ll be a tooth and nail fight to the death between her and Reese Witherspoon for the Oscar this year. Maybe I’m just a jaded grumpy old woman but it wouldn’t be in my top ten movies of all time. Or anywhere close.
*edit*
i’ve just realised what it is that annoys me about these type of movies. Because they are based in the ‘information superhighway interweb age’ they all receive these ‘evil emails’ and suddenly the orchestra starts up with the ominous cello music. Well, listen here I get evil email all the time, difference is I call it SPAM and send it to my trash can. The only ‘thrilling’ bit in this movie was when Rafe got bet up by a couple of football hooligans and tell me, who hasn’t had that happen? eh?
I read a review which said ‘Hoy! Why is it that it’s always white people in movies like this that aid the poor benighted black people? Why can’t Thandie Newton get some love?’ And do you know, I think they’re possibly right.
Go see H. Potts or Uhh. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: I found both of them infinitely more rewarding than that sounds…
Comment by Linus — November 21, 2005 @ 12:47 pm
I haven’t seen any of the previous pothead movies so it would be pointless to go see the newest I think. Heard good things about kiss, kiss, but the movie buddy had already seen it.
Comment by elimare — November 21, 2005 @ 1:14 pm
did Elijah Wood beat up Fiennes. If so, well done young hobbit.
Comment by ronan — November 21, 2005 @ 2:02 pm