Film Review: One flew over the cuckoo's nest

Director: Milos Forman

Based on the novel of the same name by Ken Kesey, it became the second film ever to win the big five Oscar's in 1975 with It Happened One Night being the first in 1931 and The Silence of the Lambs being the only film to repeat it since. It is regularly named as one of the films that Jack Nicholson is renowned for as the rebellious Randle ''Mac'' McMurphy.

Mac is an anti-authoritarian criminal who is transferred to a mental institution for evaluation after serving a short sentence on a prison farm for raping a 15 year old girl, mainly in the hope of avoiding hard labor. He meets many colourful characters in there who he tries to bond with despite their mental problems and then use to help change ward policy at the behest of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher).

All the gang in the mental institution

Nicholson is excellent as the rebel without a cause, just wanting to cause trouble for authority that ends up affecting the delicate minds inside the institution. There are too many supporting characters to try and individually praise too many of them but Danny DeVito is excellent as the delusional Martini whilst my favourite was Brad Dourif as the stuttering Billy Bibbit. Nurse Ratched is pitched perfectly as the antagonist of the movie; she isn't the obvious bullying authority figure it would have easy for her to have been. She is far more subtle in her techniques and in some cases you need to consider if she really is the bad influence with her methods compared to Mac who is in prison for raping a minor.

Unfortunately it tries to be too comedic to be genuinely moving and the jokes aren't always good enough to be a comedy, this means that One flew over the cuckoo's nest ends up being nestled somewhere in between. The story isn't complex or surprising but it's the characters that make you enjoy this film as they are so brilliantly acted and hard not to care about their outcomes.

3/4 funny with well-acted and interesting characters but falls between comedy and drama.

This week's releases 28/09/2012

The Campaign: 'Political comedy' starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis who run against each other to become a congressman, Ferrell is Cam Brady with years of experience whilst Galifianakis plays newcomer Marty Huggins. Expect similar style humour to Anchorman and other films from Ferrell's filmography.

Looper: Joseph Gordon Levitt stars as a mafia man who kills people from the future for the mob but ends up facing himself.

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Resident Evil: Retribution 3D: The fifth film in the series that for some reason refuses to die, Mila Jovovich returns as Alice who finds herself deep in the Umbrella headquarters searching for the people responsible for a deadly virus that threatens the Earth's population.

Untouchable: The film opened to rave reviews having been released at the French box-office last year and is now set to take Hollywood by storm with many proclaiming it could match The Artist in terms of awards. Millionaire Phillippe is paralysed from the neck down so is confined to a wheelchair, he hires ex-con Driss where a bond of friendship is slowly formed.

Film Review: Red State

Director: Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith announced that his next film would be a change in direction after the View Askewniverse films and other such films like Cop Out. The subject of the film is quite controversial itself in portraying a cult like religious group who imprison gays and other sinners but wasn't as controversial as Smith's behaviour at the Sundance Film Festival where it was first shown. He initially announced that the film would be auctioned after the screening but then bought the rights to his own movie (for $20) and set off round the world to distribute it. Although he did use Lionsgate to help him distribute the film on DVD and other on-demand services after the cinema run was over.

Travis (Michael Anganaro) and Billy Ray (Nicholas Braun)

Travis (Michael Anganaro), Jared (Kyle Gallner) and Billy Ray (Nicholas Braun) decide to drive to meet a woman (Melissa Leo) who has offered to have sex with all three of them in a trailer out of town. She drugs the beers that they are drinking so they collapse and are held prisoner inside the Five Points Church which is run by Abin Cooper (Michael Parks). There Jared witnesses a gay man being tied to a cross before being executed and dropped through a hole in the floor where his two other friends are whilst the police and ATF agent come looking for the missing boys.

The centre-piece of the movie is the speech by Abin Cooper in the church in front of the congregation, delivering a hate filled speech which lasts nearly 10mins in length which is an unsettling speech as there are lots of people out there who share these beliefs. Unfortunately like lots of moments in the film the message is lost amongst needless ranting and is over-written as too many ideas fight for breath amongst one speech. This aside Michael Parks is the lead performance in the movie and one of the very few saving graces.

Abin Cooper (Michael Parks)

My flatmate saw the movie at the cinema with a Q&A afterwards which he described more as Smith just talking at length about the movie etc rather than many questions from the audience. I was hugely disappointed with the whole movie and my expectations weren't that high based on the trailer and general buzz on the internet. It starts off in a similar slacker vain to other Smith films before turning into a re-enactment of the Waco siege in 1993 where dozens of people died in a battle between authorities and a religious cult.

The whole thing is a bit of a mess, the camerawork and editing is shoddy which makes you feel ill. Smith produces characters that you don't care about, aside from ATF Special Agent Keenan but that's only because John Goodman plays him, so when the bloodshed starts you aren't concerned in any way whilst the ending was a debacle in itself (although an alternate ending that was mentioned by Smith is even worse). The film is marketed as a horror but isn't anywhere near scary, tense or gory enough to be one, it isn't particularly political in what it has to say and apart from a few moments of dark humour it isn't a comedy. In the end it was just a film that stole 80mins of my life.

0.5/4 shoddily filmed and a bore of a film with too many holes.

Film Preview: Skyfall (James Bond)

Daniel Craig has certainly breathed new life into the James Bond franchise after the excellent Casino Royale even if A Quantum of Solace failed to live up to expectations. The third film in this installment of the franchise is finally here after a 4 year wait. The production of the movie had a few setbacks due to financing from MGM which resulted in original screenwriter Peter Morgan leaving the production.

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In Skyfall, Bond is presumed to be dead after a disastrous mission in Istanbul whilst the identities of all MI6 undercover agents are leaked onto the internet. Bond must act to stop the new threat from Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem) whilst confronting M about her loyalty to him.

Skyfall is released in the UK on 26th October 2012 and the trailer is embedded below:

Film Preview: The Iceman

An adaptation of the real life story of Richard Kuklinski who was nicknamed 'The Iceman' who was a ruthless contract killer for the mafia but still lived a normal family life as a devoted husband and father. The Iceman is believed to have killed more than 100 people in over 4 decades of work. Michael Shannon plays the lead role looking quite different but suitably attired to be a part of the mafia.


Michael Shannon as the 'Iceman' Richard Kuklinski

The film features an impressive cast that includes Ray Liotta (maxing out on mob films at the moment), James Franco, David Schwimmer and Winona Ryder as the wife of Kuklinski. The story does have a sense of deja vu about it as a mafia man with a boring forgettable existence in the suburbs much like Donnie Brasco and leans heavily on the work of Goodfellas. The question is whether this film will give us an insight into the mind of a prolific contract killer or be just another mob film for the sake of it?

The Iceman is released in the UK on 14th March 2013 and the trailer is embedded below:

Film Review: Step Brothers

Director: Adam McKay

A film produced by Judd Apatow and co-written by Will Ferrell should have potential for a very funny film but this falls incredibly short. It is a juvenile and at times desperate for laughs film with both Reilly and Ferrell especially getting to play a man-child which seems to be an over-used format.

Both Brendan Huff (Will Ferrell) and Dale Doback (John C. Reilly) both live with their respective parents who are now single after deaths and divorce. Their parents meet and decide to get married to each other forcing them to live together and become step-brothers. They are made to get jobs within a month or be forced to move out of the family home which causes them to look for jobs together which is unsuccessful as they hamper each others chances.

Brendan Huff (Will Ferrell) and Dale Doback (John C. Reilly)

Will Ferrell is effectively playing the character that he reverts to in a lot of movies whilst John C. Reilly is more comfortable playing an actor than a comedian. There are one or two laughs in the movie that were worthy of praise especially when the brothers decide to make their beds into bunk beds but overall it was a needless exercise and a couple of hours of my life I'd like back.

One of my main hopes after seeing this film is that the sequel that has been discussed between Ferrell and Reilly doesn't happen then this film can be left in the past where it might be forgotten.

1/4 needlessly over the top, desperate and not particularly funny

Film Review: Atonement

Director: Joe Wright

Certain films deeply affect you in ways you don't expect, especially when they catch you off-guard completely which was the case for me when watching Atonement. The opening moments passed by with me unsure whether this is a film I will become emotionally attached to but before I could re-consider this the film was ending and I had been totally engrossed. McAvoy is superb as the wrongly accused Robbie Turner whose love with Cecilia is interrupted. Even Keira Knightley who I am not a fan of at all is impressive.

Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) and Cecilia Tallis (Keira Knightley)

*spoilers ahead*

Robbie Turner is the son of the servant who works at the impressive family home of the Tallis family. Briony Tallis has a child crush on Robbie and misconstrues certain moments between him and Cecilia to believe that Robbie is actually a psychopath. When her teenage cousin Lola is raped in the woods, she makes up a story saying that she saw Robbie doing it to the family and the police so that he is sent to prison. The love story between Robbie and Cecilia continues as he is sent to war as a replacement for finishing his sentence despite them just wanting to be together.

Cecilia in the Green Dress

The ending is absolutely devastating when it is revealed as you honestly believe that Briony finally apologises and that they end up being together. Having seen it happen before we cut to an old Briony admitting she made up the ending due to her being too coward to apologise, it was heart-breaking to see the actual ending. It was an excellent method of story-telling that completely pulls the rug from beneath your feet. It is not without flaw as the story does become a bit muddled in the middle section of the film, not quite sure where it is going at times before the finale which just stops it being a knockout 4 out of 4.

3.5/4 heart-breaking story matched by stellar performances from the cast

Film Preview: Looper

Watching the trailer it took me 10-15secs to realise that the main character is actually Joseph Gordon Levitt wearing some sort of nose prosthetic to make him look more like Bruce Willis. As the trailer continued it became clear why this is the case, Levitt plays Joseph Simmons who works for the mafia in Kansas City who is employed as a looper in 2042. A looper is employed to kill and dispose of agents sent from the future in 2072 from their Shanghai headquarters with the one rule being that the target must never escape but Simmons recognises his next target is himself from the future (Bruce Willis)

There has been quite a lot of marketing for this film in recent weeks on UK TV as they try to push it as a late summer blockbuster, the early reviews have been extremely positive with many calling it the best time travel yarn since 12 Monkeys which doesn't bode well for me since I didn't like 12 Monkeys!

Looper is released in the UK on Friday 28th September in the UK and the trailer is embedded below:

Film Review: Lawless

Director: John Hillcoat

Based on the historical novel The Wettest Country in the World by Matt Bondurant, Nick Cave sculpted an intriguing screenplay about a family of bootleggers out in the country of Virginia during the prohibition era in America. Nick Cave also wrote most of the score to the movie as well which is superbly in keeping with the time the movie is set, there are certainly some great songs in there.

Forrest Bondurant (Tom Hardy), Jack (Shia LeBeouf) and Howard (Jason Clarke) are running a successful business selling illegal liquor around the state of Virginia. They are joined by Maggie Beauford (star performance by Jessica Chastain) who works as a waitress in their bar but she is also followed from Chicago by Special Agent Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce) who intends to make the entire state dry of illegal liquor. There is huge money to be made so there is a lot of bloodshed in the battle for business.



Forrest Bondurant (Tom Hardy) and Maggie Beauford (Jessica Chastain)



Shia LeBeouf takes the lead as the slightly shy youngest brother who is introduced into the bootlegging business by his brothers whilst also falling for a local religious girl called Bertha (Mia Wasikowska). Shia does a capable job in the lead and is improved from other performances I've recently seen him in and is over-shadowed by the talent around him. Tom Hardy as the rough older brother is excellent and Guy Pearce is everything you hate in a man as the sadistic Special Agent but Jessica Chastain is the star as Maggie, a beautiful lady who used to be a dancer (and apparently a prostitute according to Charlie Rakes) in Chicago.

The real shame is that the character of Floyd Banner who helps the Bondurant family as a fellow bootlegger and criminal was not developed, his role could have been cut from the film without much explanation but there was a lot of room for an interesting side story to be told. His actions seemed to be hastily explained with a couple of lines in the script which was a real shame.

Special Agent Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce)

At times it was difficult to root for the three brothers as they battle the law and other thugs mostly with violence from the drunken brother Howard, it's only that Guy Pearce's character is so utterly despicable that you feel yourself siding with the Bondurant's. Some of the violence is a bit gratuitous especially a scene when a man has his testicles removed with a knife but isn't as excessive as other reviews will lead you to believe. This aside it's a well-acted and intriguing enough plot to be worth seeing.

2.5/4 bloody yet flawed epic with many impressive acting performances.

Universal plan sequels to The Bourne Legacy and Ted

Universal Pictures has confirmed that sequels will be made for both The Bourne Legacy and Ted. Both films were huge successes this summer upon release with them both making over £200 million and in this day and age that makes a sequel a near certainty!

Starting with The Bourne Legacy, it is no surprise that this is being made into a sequel and I expect it will end up being at least a trilogy similar to the Matt Damon Bourne franchise. The first film in the new franchise spends a lot of time looking into the back-story of Jeremy Renner's character Aaron Ross so it was clear that they hoped the first film would perform well at the box office so they could make a sequel at the very least. Has the franchise got the ability to run with a very similar premise across 3 movies like the original franchise?

Ted is a little more surprising in that it was clearly only made as a one film run with the way it ended but the film exceeded all expectations at the box-office so clearly Universal Pictures wanted Seth MacFarlane to stretch to a sequel. It'll be interesting to see what the plot will be for the new film but hopefully it will be an improvement on the first.

The Bourne Legacy Review and Ted Review

This week's releases 21/09/2012

Killing Them Softly: After a robbery at a high stakes Mafia Poker game, Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt) is given the job of finding the men responsible and taking action against them. The cast includes James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins and Ray Liotta.

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Savages: Based on Don Winslow's best selling novel and with Oliver Stone as director we follow two marijuana growers whose expertise take them to the top of the Mexican drug world. But when you are top of the pile there are always people wanting to bring you down, both from the underworld and from the police.

The House at the end of the Street: Sarah (Elisabeth Shue) and her daughter (Jennifer Lawrence) move into the home they have always dreamed of but find out that a gruesome murder took place next door. The sole survivor (Ryan Theriot) becomes friends with the pair but has some mysterious company.

Film Review: Detachment

Director: Tony Kaye

Debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2011, Detachment is the story of life in an American high school through the eyes of supply teacher Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody). Similar in tone to Half Nelson which had Ryan Gosling as the lead taking on the role of supply teacher to a disruptive class with little prospects for the future. Barthes connects with three women that he meets, Sarah Madison (Christina Hendricks) who is another teacher at the school, Meredith (Betty Kaye) who is a pupil from his first class with a talent for art but very little self-confidence to constant criticism from her father and Erica (Sami Gayle) who is a teenager who has become a prostitute.

The message is clear and powerful throughout the film, looking at the failure of the system to help young people in the tough inner-cities of America gain an education. The pupils have no respect for authority and the teachers that are genuinely trying to help them but have little hope. The film isn't just a look at the failing of the American school system, it's a reflection on the broken society that we live in today and that isn't just exclusive to America.



Adrien Brody as supply teacher Henry Barthes



There are different characters who many people can relate to and that is the real power behind the story. James Caan plays a teacher on anti-depressants who uses comedy to get round the pupils aggressive behaviour as well as to entertain himself which adds some comic relief but still brings on depression at what some teachers have to go through.

There are certain storylines that are slightly predictable and perhaps over-dramatized compared to real life for the sake of cinema but it didn't detract from how much the movie affected me. One of the opening scene when a pupil threatens Barthes over a piece of paper is intense and perfectly pitched, it sets the tone for the rest of the movie. Adrien Brody is the man who wishes he could do so much more but can't, he's so devoted to teaching that he has no life outside of school and quite possibly is a supply teacher because he doesn't want to become too emotionally invested in his class of students. Brody produces an absolutely stunning performance as someone trying to do the right thing but swimming against the tide and is supported by impressive performances from Sami Gayle in particular.

4/4 unflinching yet touching look at life in the American high-school system

Film Review: Memento

Director: Christoper Nolan

This was Nolan's second feature film after The Following but is widely credited as the film that made him famous as a director and a writer. It is renowned for it's non-linear script that brings together two segments, one in black and white and one in colour, as well as it's ending that is open to interpretation.

Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) has anterograde amnesia which means he cannot create any new memories after an attack on his wife where she was raped and killed. Shelby killed the first attacker but didn't know of a second attacker who clubs him into unconsciousness. He tries to find the second man who is apparently named John G by getting help from people (who he photographs and writes notes about so he remembers who they are) as well as tattooing his body to help him remember things.

Leonard Shelby with his tattoos

*spoilers ahead* the plot works with two storylines, the black and white storyline is linear and is the sequence of events leading up to Leonard strangling Jimmy and then the colour storyline follows straight after but is shown in reverse chronological order so the murder of Teddy is actually the last action we see. The open ended question of whether Teddy was telling the truth about his wife being the one with diabetes and that he will always be searching for John G to give his life meaning is an intriguing one. The non-linear storyline adds a bit of confusion to events at times which is good but is easier to decipher than a Lynch movie for instance.

For many parts of the movie I felt a bit bored as the storyline faltered, this was possibly for people to try and catch up with what's happened but I started to feel I could see what was going to happen. With movies of this type my mind always goes into over-drive thinking about what exactly has happened and I came back to Lost Highway. We are watching the movie from Leonard's perspective so what is assumed from his memory isn't necessarily true akin to Fred's character in Lost Highway saying that he prefers to see things how he remembers them not necessarily as they happened. This was the key throughout the movie to seeing the twist coming at the end and the 12 years since it's release have possibly taken the shine off it somewhat.

3/4 great non-linear script just falters at certain points.

Film Preview: Butter

Described as an ensemble comedy which is usually the usual bunch of comedians coming together and making a bad movies. In this it's more an ensemble of straight actors/actresses coming together to do a quirky comedy about an intense devotion to butter sculptures. The trailer shows some real promise in terms of being a funny film about quite a random topic, although the main idea being that people become obsessed with hobbies of all kinds.

Jennifer Garner was quoted as saying "We are just about to get green light, so I will be diving into butter and learning how to fake it. I am sure we will have to hire professionals to make the final products but I'm looking forward to picking up some new skills. Maybe they will come in handy during a family holiday" just after the screenplay was picked up for production.

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Butter does not have a release date in the UK yet but the trailer is embedded below:

This week's releases 07/09/2012

Shut Up and Play the Hits: April 2nd 2011 saw the last ever gig played by the band LCD Soundsystem at Madison Square Garden, frontman James Murphy deciding to quit whilst the band were at the peak of their success. This documentary follows the events of that night and the mammoth four hour show that they put on as well as an intimate look at Murphy himself.

Dredd 3D: A remake of the original from 1995, this time with Karl Urban as Dredd. Set in a dystopian future where the police have rule over all to be judge, jury and executioner, Dredd must stop a drug lord who has a mind altering drug that can slow time from using it to destroy the city.

Anna Karenina: Based on Leo Tolstoy's epic 19th century novel, Keira Knightley is Anna Karenina who embarks on an illicit affair with a count which sees her challenge the conventions of the upper echelons of the world she inhabits. A second attempt at the novel after an original movie was made in 1948.

Lawless: The lucrative nature of bootlegging during the Prohibition era in the states and the violence that goes along with it.

A full preview can be found here: Lawless Preview

Film Review: The A-Team

Director: Joe Carnahan

The popular 1980's TV Show is re-made for the big screen with a new cast playing the popular characters of Face (Bradley Cooper), Murdock (Sharlto Copley who is the most impressive of the four), Hannibal (Liam Neeson) and B.A (Quinton ''Rampage'' Jackson). The film had been in development since around 1995 with many different producers and writers having ideas for the project to then be shelved. It was finally released in 2010 and performed well at the box-office.

The plot covers a bit of the back-story that the TV series was based around with how the four became locked up in a maximum security prison for a crime they did not commit and also how B.A. became afraid of flying. Their mission revolves around some U.S. treasury plates that can print U.S. dollars which have fallen into the wrong hands and ends up being a search for the people inside the CIA behind the job with many explosions and gunfights ensue.

Face, Murdock, Hannibal and B.A.

Sharlto Copley as Murdock is absolutely hilarious during the movie and he plays the slightly mad pilot brilliantly, 90% of the funny moments from the film revolve around him. The other three are all decent in their roles but as a group of four they do have good chemistry which is visible on-screen. Jessica Biel really can't act and is supposed to be a tough woman with a soft side for Face but this is shambolic at best. The original cast were offered cameos which some accepted but only appear for about three seconds so blink and you miss them.

The plot at times is a mess and a bit incomprehensible but you could do a lot worse for an easy film to enjoy. The action sequences were a bit predictable in places and looked heavily CGI'd which always detracts from my enjoyment when you clearly can see it's not real. The story leaves it open for a possible sequel after a nice little cameo by Jon Hamm at the end.

2/4 funnier than expected but predictable action sequences

Film Preview: Stolen

After the popular success of Taken, David Guggenheim as done us the pleasure of writing a screenplay called Stolen for a film starring Nicholas Cage which at first glance seems to mirror the plot of Taken. No doubt Cage is hoping it will re-launch his career in the same way it did for Neeson but copying a very similar formula is lazy to say the least.

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In fairness to the film, the plot is slightly different in that Cage is a bank robber who has just been released from prison and tries to reunite with his daughter who he hasn't seen for 8 years. His former partner in crime returns, who he believed was dead, kidnaps his daughter and wants the proceeds from the bank robbery he was put in jail for believing Cage has it. He has just 12 hours to find $10 million dollars without being caught by the police.

Not quite the same as Taken but certainly inspired. Stolen is released in the UK on 5th December 2012 and the trailer is embedded below:

Film Preview: Taken 2

After my review of the original, I was informed by a few people that I had under-rated it and that it deserved a better grade. Unfortunately this didn't persuade me to change it as the things I didn't like about the film still stand out in my mind but I am more worried about how the sequel will go. The format of the original just about stretched over the 90 minute timeframe and hope the second has more to it in terms of entertainment value.

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The premise looks exactly the same as the original in that the Albanian mobsters are after Bryan's (Liam Neeson) daughter, but this time it is to avenge the deaths of their family and friends in Paris. Bryan has reconciled with wife and daughter so go on holiday to Istanbul for a family trip.  Does anybody else think going on holiday to somewhere that close to Albania was clearly a bad diea? I'm pretty much expecting Neeson to punch, kick and shoot his way through half of Istanbul like he did in Paris.

Film Review: Alien vs Predator

Director: Paul Anderson

If you thought Prometheus was bad (I didn't) then you really need to see Alien vs Predator. It isn't full of holes as a film, more one great big hole with nothing to hold it up. There had been much talk of trying to do a crossover between the two franchises but many felt it was a hugely ambitious project and didn't pursue it. Unfortunately Paul Anderson with the help Shane Salerno wrote a screenplay based on a comic book to finally bring the two creatures together into one film.

The plot is based around the idea that hieroglyphics reveal that a pyramid buried beneath the icy sheets of Antarctica is a hunting ground for Predators who kill Aliens that they have bred purely for sport and killing as a rite of passage for young Predators. A team from Weyland Industries decides to go investigate the pyramid to see what life is there after heat sources are detected there but stumble upon a war.

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The premise itself is laughable that Predators used Earth as a hunting ground to breed and kill Aliens for sport because they needed humans to help produce the Aliens. In action-horror movies like this the plot doesn't have to be fantastic and complex but some aspects of plausibility need to be included. The characters are all hugely wooden and unlikeable meaning that you are actually rooting for the Predators and Aliens so that they all die as soon as possible whilst it is easily predicted which character will survive at the end.

Despite a big budget of $60 million, the special effects and action sequences seem heavily reliant on poor CGI which makes them look like they are happening independent of the rest of set. At times it reminded me of Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat where you fight in front of a background that has no bearing on what happens in front of it. Even as a silly bit of fun this film is quite unlikeable and easily forgettable so much so that I'm sick of writing about this film already.

0.5/4 terrible acting, terrible plot, poor special effects

Film Preview: Arbitrage

Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon continue the trend of bleak recession based dramas set around the big world of banking. The director is Nicholas Jarecki who is making his directing debut on the big screen here and also wrote the screenplay, he has big shoes to fill after the brilliance of Margin Call by J.C. Chandor that was released in early 2012 around a similar idea. The film was released at the Sundance Film Festival in January of this year and is scheduled to be released in the US on 14th September but no date has officially been set for the UK yet .

The film is based around Robert Miller (Richard Gere) who makes a big error when trying to sell his trading empire which means he has to look to an unlikely person for help. Look out for Tim Roth playing a Detective.

Arbitrage is released in the UK in early 2013 and the trailer is embedded below: