... After astonishing, Oscar-nominated “The Quiet American”, there's a new role of a bad guy in “The Statement”. Here’s little pleasure for people who enjoy plotting conspiracy films. Well yes, after 20 minutes you'll want everyone dead.
Michael Caine play a fugitive in 90s in France, ... Read review
Michael Caine stars as Pierre Brossard, a desperate man on the run from his past.A known ... more
WWII war criminal, Brossard has never been brought to trial and has lived a peaceful and anonymous life sheltered by the Catholic Church. Now nearly fifty years af...
The world of Si Begg--the twisted intelligence behind pop-art pseudonym SI Futures and ... more
their Mission Statement--is a weird, but disorientating one indeed. Last we saw him, he was declaring The Complete Death of Cool on a deranged, jabbering mix compilation that consisted mostly of his own work, segueing mutant jazz, savant hip-hop and general scatology into an impressively mad whole. The Mission Statement is a (marginally) less complicated beast: presented, with requisite sense of crushing faux-dullness, as a business conference, the tracks are divided into rooms, suites and lounges: so, in the Green Room we find "This Is the Way", Mouse on Mars-style quirky techno replete with snatches of distortion-heavy guitar feedback; in Alexandra Suite One, the whooping, Squarepusher-style sequencer meltdown of "Ionic Fun k"; the Victoria Suite finds Bristolian hip-hop crew The Aspects rhyming over shredded digital hip-hop on "All Terrain Aspects"; and The Lobby hosts the conference's closing event, the excellent techno simplicity of "We Are Not a Rock Band". Sure, Si Begg might be a techno prankster, but he makes some seriously good records. --Louis Pattison
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Thriller - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Timothy West, Neil Morrissey, Tara Fitzgerald, Annette Crosbie, Pauline Quirke, Rob Brydon, Denise Van Outen, John Thomson, Kevin Whately, David Suchet
Production Year: 2002 - Thriller - Director: Bharat Nalluri, Rob Bailey, Andy Wilson - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Lisa Faulkner
Advantages: brilliant crew Disadvantages: far too serious
...are out of fashion. On the territory of UK or USA there are hardly any audience who enjoy watching it. Apart from the Jewish communities as most number victims of holocaust. However, Michael Caine is brilliant choice for such role. Michael Caine is a brilliant actor, just as well, but his choice of roles is notoriously wayward when it comes to commercial issues, of course. Like he’s, on porpoise choosing only the once he wants. However, if we take ... ...kill him for working with the Nazis in II World War. Plodding and predictable, it follows Caine's on the run as he seeks help from the Catholic Church. All those years Catholic clergy is giving him financial support, to live comfortably undercover. Well, better say Catholic sects orders, but eventually, the Pope is cutting the help off him. The most terrifying detail in the film, is that Catholic monks and priests, at the convents and sect secret ... more
Stories about II World War Nazis are out of fashion. On the territory of UK or USA there are hardly any audience who enjoy watching it. Apart from the Jewish communities as most number victims of holocaust. However, Michael Caine is brilliant choice for such role. Michael Caine is a brilliant actor, just as well, but his choice of roles is notoriously wayward when it comes to commercial issues, of course. Like he’s, on porpoise choosing only the once he wants. However, if we take look at his career, we might say he deserved this privilege of choosing. After astonishing, Oscar-nominated “The Quiet American”, there's a new role of a bad guy in “The Statement”. Here’s little pleasure for people who enjoy plotting conspiracy films. Well yes, after 20 minutes you'll want everyone dead.
Michael Caine play a fugitive in 90s in France, who’s trying to escape Jewish undercover group, who want to kill him for working with the Nazis in II World War. Plodding and predictable, it follows Caine's on the run as he seeks help from the Catholic Church. All those years Catholic clergy is giving him financial support, to live comfortably undercover. Well, better say Catholic sects orders, but eventually, the Pope is cutting the help off him. The most terrifying detail in the film, is that Catholic monks and priests, at the convents and sect secret orders that he visits on the run, are openly blessing him, nodding their heads for approval. How true this is? I know it was like that during the II World War, because Catholic Church was protecting Nazis on many way. But here, the clergy are portrayed , as so often on screen, as either power-hungry or spineless hypocritical societies. Surely this can't be the whole truth? Not in France I mean! There are territories in Eastern Europe [territory of ex Yugoslavia] where this Catholic generous “forgiveness “ protecting policy behavior to Nazi oriented “parties” or “army groups” was happening in 90s. But it wasn’t for sure happening in France. And if this is the message of the film, why not mentioning the country where all this was very much possible to be happening?
Obviously, our sympathy isn't given much for this desperate, hypocritical old man, who'll do anything to save his own ass, as long as he can later repent for his sins. And yes, he’s wearing St. Christopher, the protector of law runners and travelers. How nice? Does God really forgives such? I don’t think so, but it’s nice to believe in that, is it? But neither do we know what forces pursuing him, or care about the long arm of the law catching him on the end. Or shall we blame not very convenient dramatization instead? Like I said, pursuing Nazis isn’t that popular any more. Or it never was in the first place?
Maybe Caine wouldn’t be able to hold attention all the time, if there wasn’t a brilliant crew with him. Jeremy Northam's Colonel, Alan Bates and Tilda Swinton. As now “decent”, on-the-edge killer, Caine, doesn't holds the attention even halfway to the conclusion, because the flat scenes of deduction or the dialogue are insufficient to carry the main message. Yet, only holocaust people from II World War and later on in 90s civil war victims on ex Yu territory can understand the silent approval of the Catholic Church “forgiveness” policy authority on a Nazi war criminals. Which is further degraded by a decision to dedicate the movie to the victims of Nazi brutality. As it lacks of self-importance pursuing with message “aren't-we-decent award-seeking people”, it’s adding an insult to incalculable injury of judging justice.
Film is certainly avariable via Internet, just brows on Internet search. And its not for children or teenagers, in fact, prepare for a long thinking afterwards, because this is not a casual every day film.
Advantages: No Pain, all exercises are easy to do Disadvantages: None as of yet
I was given this dvd as a christmas present, and so far all I can say is that this was one of the best gifts I have ever been given. Louise Soloman states that if the workout is completed 3 times a week for a month, you will see a deifnite change in your body shape, including weight loss and tone. Well for once this is a statement that is true. I have been doing the dvd consistently now for 3 weeks and I have alreayd dropped a dress size.
I have never experienced a workout dvd like this. There are no over strenuous exercises that have you attempting to split your body in half like most yoga or pilates dvds, and everything is taken in a slow easy pace so you can feel the muscles toning with each stance.
At first I thought I was doing something wrong, as being nearly 60ibs overweight it all seemed a little too easy, but boy was I ...
Advantages: Loads of boarding action, funny retro fashion Disadvantages: short feature, only about 70 minutes
is very watchable, none of the footage is particularly memorable and at around 70mins long the story seems rushed and unbalanced.
There are some extra's on the DVD in the form of a taped police statement, but again nothing that really grabs you. ...
Advantages: Guy with big skull, Joe Estevez Disadvantages: Acting, Directing, Script etc.
were the actor is flicking his wrist to give the impression the gun is shooting but it looks like that?s just what he?s doing and not in the least realistic.
Critics Quotes
So there were these three statements on the back of the DVD that are really misleading.
?Smart Psychological Thriller? Mark Engle, Cult Cuts Magazine
Maybe his assessment of smart is relative to his own capacity but I don?t reckon too many people would consider this smart. The story was alright but there was nothing clever about it. The dialogue was terrible. So Mark Engle - shut up.
?An orgy of bloody beauties? Tex Massacre, Bloodydisgusting.com
What? I reckon this guy only watched the first five minutes. Because within that time we do have one topless girl (it?s questionable as to whether she?s a ?beauty? or not) and some bloodiness but the rest ...
Pierre Brossard, a former Vichy government policeman and Nazi collaborator, finds himself pursued across France by a Judge and an Army colonel.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
MOMENTUM PICTURES; TECHNICOLOR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
Release date
26/07/2004
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
MP 329 D
Barcode
5060049145297
Screenwriter
Brian Moore
Author
Brian Moore
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Featurette - 1. Behind-the-Scenes, Trailer
Sound
Dolby Digital
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital English
Professional reviews
Review
"...This is a seriously high quality production I strongly advise you to see." (Daily Mirror, )
"...Caine again proves himself to be one of Britain's best character actors..." (Nuts, )
DVD Description
While a secret society of Catholic priests hide him in various French abbeys, a network of bitter Jewish assassins track him, and a determined judge attempts to use the law to pin a prison sentence on him. This highly wanted man is Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine) who committed war crimes--not only murdering Jews but also stealing their money and property--when he was a Nazi in World War II. However, Brossard's wrongdoing happened 40 years in the past and he was in hiding long enough that nobody--not even his own wife (Charlotte Rampling)--feels much like protecting him anymore. On the verge of a heart attack, Brossard scampers from one hiding spot to the next, narrowly evading his multiple pursuers. A top-notch political thriller directed by Norman Jewison (THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR) and based on a novel by Brian Moore, THE STATEMENT keeps viewers trapped in suspenseful anticipation. Caine's portrayal of Brossard as a nervous, jittery old man with a guilty conscience is palpably upsetting. Meanwhile Tilda Swinton as the judge, and Jeremy Northam as her assistant, make an excellent and convincing detective team. Interesting film work combines sharp footage of provincial France with black and white flashbacks to grueling WWII executions, making the film visually compelling--an excellent complement to its puzzling plotline.
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