Drama > L Drama

Advantages: Witty, great atmosphere.
Disadvantages: Downright boring.

Director: Kenneth Branagh Screenplay: Harold Pinter Play: Anthony Shaffer Genre: Comedy - Mystery - Drama - Thriller Country: USA Certification: 15+ Language: English Released: 28th April, 2008 (DVD) MAIN CAST: Michael Caine (Andrew Wyke) Jude Law (MiloTindle) Andrew, a renowned crime writer, invites his wife's lover to his home. Milo, a seemingly naïve unemployed actor/hairdresser, has made the trip to Andrew's home in order to ask him to ...
...love and want to be married. During the course of their conversation, as Andrew gives Milo a tour of his extraordinary home, Andrew tells Milo that he'll gladly give his wife a divorce on one condition - that Milo break into his home and steal the expensive jewels he's keeping in his safe. He tells Milo that unless he has enough money to support Maggie's expensive lifestyle, she'll come back to him and he doesn't want her back. He tells Milo that ... Read review

Advantages: The original play is very good.
Disadvantages: Virtually everything about this self-important, pretentious pile of tripe.

Millionaire crime writer Andrew Wyke invites his wife's lover to his hi-tech house to engage in a battle of wits. The clever and manipulative author is determined to use his mind games to bring unemployed actor Milo Tindle to his knees. So begins an elaborate game of cat-and-mouse, in which trickery and deceit are the keys to winning and staying alive. Oh dear, oh dear - yet another pointless remake to a highly successful film, this time directed ...
...theatrical institution Harold Pinter. You'd have thought with such impeccable theatre credentials, this is one stage play adaptation that would have a fighting chance. But you'd be wrong. Instead it is a film too aware of its theatrical origins and stymied by the conventions of a stage-bound two-hander. For one thing the film looks like a play - the stark modernist setting could just as easily have been built on a stage and there's little sense of ... Read review

Advantages: Uncompromising, Enthralling, Great performances
Disadvantages: Uncomfortable viewing at times

...from her. She in turn promptly goes to buy it back, thus indirectly feeding and maintaining his addiction. Requiem For A Dream is a terrific and traumatic vision that perceptively captures the subconscious minds of people whose dreams are eating away at them. Please note - published elsewhere ... Read review

Advantages: good commetary
Disadvantages: poor choice of subject

I don't think Hollywood should be making any movies about 9/11. Not this, not United 93. They would have been better served donating the money raised to finance this film to the families of those who lost people in the twin towers. I am amazed they only got 1 big Hollywood name to try and hang this whole film on. yes, Nicolas Cage sells tickets but not all on his own. there should have been at least a few other names. And don't try telling me Maggie ...
...or what else she's been in. This film really can only be watched in the DVD format with the commentary of the men who were there and the rescuers (which is included along with Oliver Stone's commentary. You will learn some interesting things you may not have previously known but this story was NEVER strong enough to be a movie. TV featurette maybe, movie, no way. Sorry. ... Read review

Advantages: great story
Disadvantages: none really

...movie! This a review of the DVD version. Take the wonderful Sir Anthony Hopkins who is a fellow Welshman & we share the same birthday! Have him playing Burt Munro, a man who wants to ride his 1920's Indian Motorcycle faster than 200 mph ot the Bonneville Saltflats. He isn't a young man, in his 70's and his bike is rebuilt and held together with anything he can find. This is the story of his trip to America and across the country in his quest to ride ...
...him like everyone else at the Salt Flats. This is a true story but I would have liked to have known how many things in the film really are true (like the policeman letting him off after speeding in Nevada). My only real gripe with the movie is the accent of the taxi driver who takes Burt to Hollywood, his accent comes and goes which annoyed me a little bit. Watch it with an open mind and be enthralled. ... Read review