Happy Torque

Rating: 8/10 (7 April 2013)

Somehow I never got around to watching this on the big screen although I had no doubt I would enjoy it - as I often do when films are over-hyped. I've just watched it on television and I have to say it IS as good as almost everyone said it was. I think the secret was that director Tom Hooper is diametrically opposite Joe Wright, who clearly sets out to make Award winning films aimed strictly at the Festival circuit rather than the Multiplex; Hooper probably thought that his movie would run three or four weeks and then fade out of sight which was exactly the right attitude and the result is a really excellent piece of 'storytelling' because what is it if not a fairy tale? Once upon a time there was a Prince who was cursed in his infancy and obliged to bear a heavy burden until one day he mat a magician who cured him, enabling him to lead his people to victory over a wicked dictator. Well done everyone involved.