Whistle and Bells but really......

Rating: 6/10 (24 March 2011)

It's "flowers for algernon" Don't get wrong I enjoyed it as a movie, but it is FFA. I did like Anna Friels characterisation well above her appearances in the GOAL films which were woeful.
Robert de Niro was good too, isn't he always The camera effects were different, but eye-straining , maybe that's just me showing my age. For all the positives I found myself wanting to fast forward, some scenes were just stretched more than I needed. And yet I didn't like attempt at showing his induction to the elite circle in a video fast forward style. All in all there was something a bit grating about the high speed motion scenes I never felt that I could connect with the film, the fight scene was a case in point So OK, pretty good even, not one of those you would buy and watch again and again, and once I got flowers for algernon in my head it kind of went from being clever to not so clever.