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Home Alone Good luck making a family film today where your 8 year old protagonist shoots an adult point blank in the face with an air rifle...
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec Just watched this with the missus. I've always had a soft spot for Luc Besson's films, but this was really disappointing. It didn't help that the Jeunet-esque narration at the beginning convoluted the exposition unnecessarily, which made the proceeding story a hodge podge of CGI set pieces that were exceedingly underwhelming and all fairly pointless. Lousie Bourgoin's portrayal of the titular character was hampered by poor writing and she went from being strong willed and funny to ill-tempered and spoilt, which made it quite hard to actually enjoy (although she is a very pretty lady). Other characters were introduced and forgotten for great swathes of the film, even though the epilogue alludes to a particular nemesis of Blanc-Sec making a return. I believe the characters, not sure about the story though, are based upon a comic book series and whilst this is the fodder of so many films these days, this is yet another example where it seemed that the source is probably a rich well of creativity and ideas, but sadly these notions just don't come across and translate well from the page to the screen. Poor ol' Luc, should stick to writing and producing whip cracking b-movies a la Taken and The Transporter franchise.
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I enjoyed ADELE BLANC SEC not one of Besson's best films but very good nevertheless but I really wish he would make another thriller like the brilliant NIKITA and LEON |
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I can't ever seeing him getting back to the likes of Leon or Nikita. His most recent is The Lady a biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro democracy activist from Burma - a strong female lead sure, but no trained assassin.
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yeah, not my type of film from Besson, like his animated stuff some years ago. not a fan shame he's just really producing and writing but not directing the thrillers from years ago enjoyed ANGEL-A a b+w fantasy, very good |
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I thought Angel-A was OK, but to be totally honest I can't remember much about it, in fact I was getting it confused in my mind with that black and white animated film set in a futuristic Paris, Renaissance. I caught the tale end of one of those animated ones (Arthur...) over Xmas, but it looked fairly tedious - that being said it was in French and my mastery of the language leaves a lot to be desired. Maybe he'll have a second wind in a few years and go thriller mad again
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