Brilliant and Very Average - Patchy Overall

Rating: 8/10 (19 November 2009)

This is a strange film in the sense that it is so patchy. Certain scenes are strong, the dialogue is sharp, the camera work is great, the lighting and all the things your expect from an excellent movie are there and then.... The directing seems to fall apart in places reducing the movie to a kind of also ran. Scenes that look like they have cardboard sets, terrible photography, wooden forced lines, as bad as any local TV drama special. I guess you can put it down to pastiche moments and leave it at that but it disturbs the flow of the film and I start to notice the production values. Probably this is the intention however just because it is intended does not mean it is good. It still gets an 8 from me because anything that is good and different is worth an 8.