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Black Sea (2014)
Jude Law proves he is one of the best British actors.
This film will never go down in history as legendary as it has a bit of a niche market ie not the most popular theme when deciding to watch a movie. But it is very good if a submarine thriller is your thing. Being half English and Scottish (Scottish family from Aberdeen)and living in Newcastle, I thought Judes Scottish accent was very believable. Maybe slightly exaggerated at times but nevertheless very believable. His acting shows he is more than just a romcom pretty boy love story actor. His heart throb days maybe over but for me that is a good thing. He played the hardened intimidating at times Scottish mariner very well. There was some big scary looking Russians on the sub but you actually thought Jude Law was the hardest and strongest man in there. He had a strong presence throughout. The film was excellent for a submarine thriller, it was nervy and tense and at moments and had you on the edge of your seat wondering what would happen next. It had the American ass hole, some crazy Russians, a psycho Aussie, eerie naziness, and great britishness with no BBC accents. All the ingredients for a good British film. I just wish they added an extra 15mins at the end to find out what happened.
Maps to the Stars (2014)
Shocking! Spoiler Alert
Sorry to spoil the party, I watched this film last night and I can safely say it was a load of drivel. If you enjoy watching irritating, stuck up, spoilt American characters in a film with a bad story line, then this film is for you.
To cut a long story short all the characters aren't likable people, so I didn't feel any compassion to their messed up misery.
Havana (Julianne Moore) is the most irritating character ever, end of! Benjie is one horrible spoilt little brat, Jerome is just a fluffer of a character and doesn't add anything to the film, apart from the Robert Pattinson factor for the vampire loving ladies watching. Dr Stafford Weiss, I didn't really see that character because all I saw was John Cusak. I couldn't remember his characters name in the film after, I just remembered John Cusak. A unprofessional hands on/sado/bondage therapist, that tries to pay his daughter to go away. It was just the same old boring John Cusak, Same hair, same look, same puppy dog eyes and monotone voice just older and fatter. Agatha Weiss (Mia Wasikowska) was the only character which held any kind of on screen presence or intrigue. But not a likable character as a messed up arsonist, inbred weirdo. But she did us all a big favour by murdering Havana.
To sum it all up, they are all messed characters up because they are all inbred. (Great storyline) John Cusak was reaming his own sister and his sister gave birth to two nasty little alien looking kids.
The scenes which the characters are "hallucinating" or seeing ghosts of their conscience where poor, they tried to be scary but failed. The one of Havana's mum was particularly irritating and annoying. I just felt like the shocking scenes weren't done very well either
The morel of this story or movie is don't have sex with your sister, if you do you will have a brother and sister that take drugs, hallucinate, bash peoples brains in with candle sticks, suffocate little ginger kids, kill off their parents and get married.