AntiHeroAnnie
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I thought this film was an adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Murder in Three Acts." But I soon realized that this was not the case. Still I find this detective very amusing.
Acting is pretty good and I also like the cinematography, editing and costumes. The story is set in the present, but elements from different periods are mixed in this film. For example, everyone drives around in cars from the present, but there is a man with an 80s haircut, a lady with a 90s haircut and this all interspersed with the classical costumes they wear when they perform a play. It makes it a bit strange, but therefore also lighter.
The story is not perfect, but that did not bother me. I certainly think "Meurtre en trois actes" is not an A-film, but it does rise above the B-film. Certainly the ending would not be out of place in an A-film. I was certainly surprised by how excellent it was.
Acting is pretty good and I also like the cinematography, editing and costumes. The story is set in the present, but elements from different periods are mixed in this film. For example, everyone drives around in cars from the present, but there is a man with an 80s haircut, a lady with a 90s haircut and this all interspersed with the classical costumes they wear when they perform a play. It makes it a bit strange, but therefore also lighter.
The story is not perfect, but that did not bother me. I certainly think "Meurtre en trois actes" is not an A-film, but it does rise above the B-film. Certainly the ending would not be out of place in an A-film. I was certainly surprised by how excellent it was.
This is not so much a love story about a "forbidden" love, but it is also about a child who slowly discovers how things work in the adult world.
This film has a slow start (after about 30 minutes the pace picks up), but my patience is well rewarded at the end. An ending that raises some questions. Yet I didn't feel it had a very strange ending. Only after talking to someone about it for half an hour did I find out why the ending felt good to me. So does the aforementioned quote get a completely different meaning in the end. I think the filmmakers intended to make a film that makes you think.
The acting is very good. Especially Gregor Selkirk, who plays the son, is excellent. I have seen few young actors acting so convincingly and realistically. I had to get used to Anna Paquin, who plays Dr. Jean Markham, because she reminded me a bit of BBC Kate Bliss (Bargain Hunt, Flog it !, Put your money where your mouth is). If you would say that Kate Bliss and Anna Paquin were sisters, I would believe it. I had to suppress a chuckle when Jean said she didn't have any teaspoons. Kate Bliss being the silver expert. I think I have seen Steven Robertson before in the detective series "Shetland" and I had wondered if his accent was realistic. In this film the Scottish accent feels to me more realistic than the one he had in "Shetland". (But I'm not Scottish so it's just a feeling of someone who's second language is English).
Apart from a scene with too many bees (which looks almost surreal), I think this is an excellent film.
This film has a slow start (after about 30 minutes the pace picks up), but my patience is well rewarded at the end. An ending that raises some questions. Yet I didn't feel it had a very strange ending. Only after talking to someone about it for half an hour did I find out why the ending felt good to me. So does the aforementioned quote get a completely different meaning in the end. I think the filmmakers intended to make a film that makes you think.
The acting is very good. Especially Gregor Selkirk, who plays the son, is excellent. I have seen few young actors acting so convincingly and realistically. I had to get used to Anna Paquin, who plays Dr. Jean Markham, because she reminded me a bit of BBC Kate Bliss (Bargain Hunt, Flog it !, Put your money where your mouth is). If you would say that Kate Bliss and Anna Paquin were sisters, I would believe it. I had to suppress a chuckle when Jean said she didn't have any teaspoons. Kate Bliss being the silver expert. I think I have seen Steven Robertson before in the detective series "Shetland" and I had wondered if his accent was realistic. In this film the Scottish accent feels to me more realistic than the one he had in "Shetland". (But I'm not Scottish so it's just a feeling of someone who's second language is English).
Apart from a scene with too many bees (which looks almost surreal), I think this is an excellent film.
During the first episode I got the impression that the series would be about the question; What do you do when you invent something that can be used for so many good things, but the only way you can make this happen is to let it also be used for killing people. But the story is about a terrorist threat.
I have the whole series through the feeling as if I am watching a computer game. In each episode, the protagonist must do one or more assignments in which she is hindered by a number of obstacles. If she does these right, the terrorists go to the next level er... episode. Every episode I have the idea that I'm watching a re-run.
I would have found it more interesting if there were a few more sidelines, or maybe one perhaps. The premise of the story, finding the second rocket and preventing an attack, is fine for a movie of 90 minutes (although I find the ending very predictable). But I would have preferred in a series of ten episodes that it would also be a bit more about the company where she works and the takeover. Something more about the fact that also good things can be done with the drone. There is enough room in a series of ten episodes to give the opinions, conflicts and principles about the take-over and invention a more important place. The contrast between the terrorists and a safe life sitting behind a desk in an office had therefore increased and, in my opinion, the series had fallen less in repetition and had would've become more interesting.
I have the whole series through the feeling as if I am watching a computer game. In each episode, the protagonist must do one or more assignments in which she is hindered by a number of obstacles. If she does these right, the terrorists go to the next level er... episode. Every episode I have the idea that I'm watching a re-run.
I would have found it more interesting if there were a few more sidelines, or maybe one perhaps. The premise of the story, finding the second rocket and preventing an attack, is fine for a movie of 90 minutes (although I find the ending very predictable). But I would have preferred in a series of ten episodes that it would also be a bit more about the company where she works and the takeover. Something more about the fact that also good things can be done with the drone. There is enough room in a series of ten episodes to give the opinions, conflicts and principles about the take-over and invention a more important place. The contrast between the terrorists and a safe life sitting behind a desk in an office had therefore increased and, in my opinion, the series had fallen less in repetition and had would've become more interesting.