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*** Contains Spoilers!!! *** Don't get me wrong - I love Sci-fi - but this is just such an uninspired film and it could have been so much better.
Magic? Fantasy? There is none. All I felt at the end of the film is a sense of relief that it's over - as for the main character he's nodded off as well! There were some good moments - the war scenes particularly - but the cinematography was just soooooooo uninspiring, the characters shallow and as usual in crap sci-fi the 'history-why-did-this-happen?' pieces stuck in at predictable junctures throughout the film.
If you want to make good Sci-fi, leave it in the hands of a true fantasy director like Terry Gilliam. Compare Twelve Monkeys with Children of Men - there's just no comparison!
Now, if only they'd cast Bruce Willis, turned the aperture on the camera down a few notches, added some Ridley Scott skyline filters, a decent script and made it look a bit more like it wasn't filmed this year down Docklands somewhere - then it might not have been quite such a crap movie.
There have been some truly God-awful Sci-fi movies out over the last few years - take 'The Island' as one example - it's no wonder the genre takes such a beating.
Also, I can't believe the rating on this movie is so high - what are people thinking of?
Magic? Fantasy? There is none. All I felt at the end of the film is a sense of relief that it's over - as for the main character he's nodded off as well! There were some good moments - the war scenes particularly - but the cinematography was just soooooooo uninspiring, the characters shallow and as usual in crap sci-fi the 'history-why-did-this-happen?' pieces stuck in at predictable junctures throughout the film.
If you want to make good Sci-fi, leave it in the hands of a true fantasy director like Terry Gilliam. Compare Twelve Monkeys with Children of Men - there's just no comparison!
Now, if only they'd cast Bruce Willis, turned the aperture on the camera down a few notches, added some Ridley Scott skyline filters, a decent script and made it look a bit more like it wasn't filmed this year down Docklands somewhere - then it might not have been quite such a crap movie.
There have been some truly God-awful Sci-fi movies out over the last few years - take 'The Island' as one example - it's no wonder the genre takes such a beating.
Also, I can't believe the rating on this movie is so high - what are people thinking of?
A classic piece of 80's BBC thriller/drama (thrillerama?)! Bob Peck as the gritty, p*ssed off cop who's just lost his daughter and wants to find out why - Joe Don Baker as the CIA dude who doesn't give a f***, and an upper class civil servant - Charles Kay - who's got his own agenda ("GET ME PENDLETON!!!").
The filming is superb - excellent settings, and probably the first and most thrilling scene of computer espionage I've ever seen. It may not have a cast of thousands, but you get the feeling of vast scale - and very confined spaces.
This is one thriller you'll keep thinking about and coming back to for many many years. Absolutely awesome.
The filming is superb - excellent settings, and probably the first and most thrilling scene of computer espionage I've ever seen. It may not have a cast of thousands, but you get the feeling of vast scale - and very confined spaces.
This is one thriller you'll keep thinking about and coming back to for many many years. Absolutely awesome.
>Yes folks,this is a sitcom about the inmates of a concentration camp.It is possibly the most repulsive show ever made.
What on earth is this man talking about? It's like Escape to Victory for forgers - only it's intentionally funny!
The late Michael Elphick puts in a suitably sheepish role as the luckless Schultz, while Peter Richardson comes out as the real star - most of the time a ruthless, goose-stepping, selfish b*stard! Just when you think everything is going right for Schultz, the Nazis turn up, he gets bonked on the head, nearly drowned in a fjord or blown to smithereens! Classic!
Great watching, and I hope it comes out on DVD! My VHS recording is starting to look a bit tatty!
What on earth is this man talking about? It's like Escape to Victory for forgers - only it's intentionally funny!
The late Michael Elphick puts in a suitably sheepish role as the luckless Schultz, while Peter Richardson comes out as the real star - most of the time a ruthless, goose-stepping, selfish b*stard! Just when you think everything is going right for Schultz, the Nazis turn up, he gets bonked on the head, nearly drowned in a fjord or blown to smithereens! Classic!
Great watching, and I hope it comes out on DVD! My VHS recording is starting to look a bit tatty!