Scary Movie 5 (2013)
Certificate: 15
Oh good grief... (Penfold!) Well, I seem to remember hearing or reading somewhere that this film was going to revive the Scary Movie series... I was therefore looking forward to it. But sadly this is not a good spoof film, a genre which people seem to have forgotten how to make properly. Gone are the heady days of Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret and the first Scary Movie. This is just bloody awful and I feel I need some sort of medal for making it all the way through to the end.. I chuckled at maybe 2 or 3 bits (a small chuckle mind you) and smiled distantly at 1 or 2 others, but most of the film left me wondering who on Earth the target audience was mean't to be. Clearly not fans of the original to which there was really no connection at all - completely different cast, completely different feel. Some parts where they were obviously going for big laughs were just pathetic attempts at being silly for the sheer sake of it, trying far too hard. Will stick with the original trilogy of Scary Movies, even the dodgy 2nd one is tonnes better than this!
1.5/10 (and I'm being generous!)
Saturday, 9 November 2013
Tower Block
Tower Block (2012)
Certificate: 15
A good little British-made thriller about the last remaining residents in a block of flats due to be demolished soon (presumably in London..? But not really sure of setting) who become the victims of a sniper. It doesn't take very long to get into it and is fairly uncompromising at times and keeps you guessing. Though it doesn't take the brains of Britain to figure out what was going on, who's behind it all. Characters were mostly believable - there were a couple of small plot holes, don't want to give anything away. The one thing I will say... this is one of what surely must be a very select few DVDs that would've benefited from coming with blueprints. Dark Star is another one, but we'll get into that some other time. Blueprints of the block of flats because I have never before seen a British block of flats that are built in that way... ie, all the flats facing out in one direction and just a whacking great 22 story brick wall at the back... Hmmm... Any way - the film chugs away at a decent pace, till the inevitable climax - unfortunately this was of epic Scooby Doo-like proportions, even had a proper 'un-masking' event, but otherwise left me pretty satisfied with it. A good British thriller, no-one hugely well known in it for me aside from Russel Tovey of 'Being Human' fame (but I don't watch much non-sci-fi TV, so there could have been others!)
Language - yeah, quite colourful
Violence/Gore - fair bit of blood but not bucket loads, lots of bloody shootings, some quite graphic beating up of people
Sex - nope, well maybe a hint of something that happened last night...
Atmosphere - fairly intense at times, will have you on the edge of your seat, at other times there's a bit of claustrophobic dread going on, characters are trapped and it seems hopeless. Not really one for the kiddies.
Overall... 7.5/10
Certificate: 15
A good little British-made thriller about the last remaining residents in a block of flats due to be demolished soon (presumably in London..? But not really sure of setting) who become the victims of a sniper. It doesn't take very long to get into it and is fairly uncompromising at times and keeps you guessing. Though it doesn't take the brains of Britain to figure out what was going on, who's behind it all. Characters were mostly believable - there were a couple of small plot holes, don't want to give anything away. The one thing I will say... this is one of what surely must be a very select few DVDs that would've benefited from coming with blueprints. Dark Star is another one, but we'll get into that some other time. Blueprints of the block of flats because I have never before seen a British block of flats that are built in that way... ie, all the flats facing out in one direction and just a whacking great 22 story brick wall at the back... Hmmm... Any way - the film chugs away at a decent pace, till the inevitable climax - unfortunately this was of epic Scooby Doo-like proportions, even had a proper 'un-masking' event, but otherwise left me pretty satisfied with it. A good British thriller, no-one hugely well known in it for me aside from Russel Tovey of 'Being Human' fame (but I don't watch much non-sci-fi TV, so there could have been others!)
Language - yeah, quite colourful
Violence/Gore - fair bit of blood but not bucket loads, lots of bloody shootings, some quite graphic beating up of people
Sex - nope, well maybe a hint of something that happened last night...
Atmosphere - fairly intense at times, will have you on the edge of your seat, at other times there's a bit of claustrophobic dread going on, characters are trapped and it seems hopeless. Not really one for the kiddies.
Overall... 7.5/10
Introduction
Greetings! Those who know me will already know that I watch a lot of films, mostly on DVD - I am always writing about them on Lovefilm, Amazon, Facebook, etc, so perhaps it's time to start a review blog site. I will review anything I watch but in varying degrees of depth - I can't guarantee consistency across all reviews, but I'll do my best!
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