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Well, what can you say about Johnny English Reborn?
The storyline was quite thin on plot, some of the acting not up to scratch, and you could be forgiven for thinking you are watching a film version of Mr Bean.
The film is full of shortcomings and would have been better to have been packed into a thirty minute episode insteand of wasting so much screen time devoted to such nonsense.
Gillian Anderson (a wonderful actress) seem totally unaware of what was going on around her and must have thought, well, I am getting paid for this!! She was totally wasted in a monor role.
The plot was about a trio of terrorists hell bent on assassinating the World Leaders with the disgraced Johnny English (in Mozambique - so we kept being told)
coming to the resuce. I couldn't actually believe in his character as I only kept seeing small sketches being offloaded onto the viewer of what Mr Bean would have done in the situations Johnny English found himself in.
And if you can belive the ludicrous plot about a drug that can change your personality and then exterminates you after you have commited murder, well!!!!
To sum up, -except for the helicopter sequence,- not a brilliant film ,with the talented cast totally wasted on this project.
This film was offering a great deal of promise, but I believe it failed to deliver. Meryl Streep was excellent as Thatcher, as was Alexandra Roach as the young Margaret Thathcher, but I belives the film is flawed as it appears to be one sided on the negatives of her premiership. We all know about the Brixton Riots, Miner's strike, Brighton Bombings (a truly sad occurence) and the Falklands War, but the film could have been more balanced with some positives from her Premiership, like trying to get the economy balanced, restoring pride in being British and being self reliant.
I have never been a fan of Thatcher, but adire her for the way she was doggedly determined to carry out her ideas, but unfotunately, as the film depicts, wa surrounded by a number of colleagues who were not a great bunch of politicians, but clung to her tail-skirts like limpet mines, hoping to further their careers - and they were the ones who finnally ended her Premiership.
The film started with her buying a pint of milk in a local convenience store and set the thread throughout the film, (watching your expenditure and living within your means).
A lot of flashbacks and rememberances were a keynote, and I thought this was the right way to make the film, but as for her 'talking' to Dennis (a solid performance from Jom Broadbent) beggered belief and I still don't think (even though I image she misses him a lot) the film should have imagined these conversation betwen the two of them were entirely right. This is a film licence too far to be believable.
Thatcher was an out and out ambitious woman from the very start of her career and manipulated people to suit her own ends.
Family life was never a consideration for her and she certainly showed no maternal instrinct towards her childre. She was rather cold and aloof, not only with her family, but with the maority of the people she associated with.
Meryl Streep captured something of her character and gave a very credible performance and duly deerved te Best Actress Oscar and Best actress BAFTA awards.
I think the film could have been a lot better, but it is always difficult picking out events from her 11 years premiership
Well, what can you say about Johnny English Reborn?
The storyline was quite thin on plot, some of the acting not up to scratch, and you could be forgiven for thinking you are watching a film version of Mr Bean.
The film is full of shortcomings and would have been better to have been packed into a thirty minute episode insteand of wasting so much screen time devoted to such nonsense.
Gillian Anderson (a wonderful actress) seem totally unaware of what was going on around her and must have thought, well, I am getting paid for this!! She was totally wasted in a monor role.
The plot was about a trio of terrorists hell bent on assassinating the World Leaders with the disgraced Johnny English (in Mozambique - so we kept being told)
coming to the resuce. I couldn't actually believe in his character as I only kept seeing small sketches being offloaded onto the viewer of what Mr Bean would have done in the situations Johnny English found himself in.
And if you can belive the ludicrous plot about a drug that can change your personality and then exterminates you after you have commited murder, well!!!!
To sum up, -except for the helicopter sequence,- not a brilliant film ,with the talented cast totally wasted on this project.
This film was offering a great deal of promise, but I believe it failed to deliver. Meryl Streep was excellent as Thatcher, as was Alexandra Roach as the young Margaret Thathcher, but I belives the film is flawed as it appears to be one sided on the negatives of her premiership. We all know about the Brixton Riots, Miner's strike, Brighton Bombings (a truly sad occurence) and the Falklands War, but the film could have been more balanced with some positives from her Premiership, like trying to get the economy balanced, restoring pride in being British and being self reliant.
I have never been a fan of Thatcher, but adire her for the way she was doggedly determined to carry out her ideas, but unfotunately, as the film depicts, wa surrounded by a number of colleagues who were not a great bunch of politicians, but clung to her tail-skirts like limpet mines, hoping to further their careers - and they were the ones who finnally ended her Premiership.
The film started with her buying a pint of milk in a local convenience store and set the thread throughout the film, (watching your expenditure and living within your means).
A lot of flashbacks and rememberances were a keynote, and I thought this was the right way to make the film, but as for her 'talking' to Dennis (a solid performance from Jom Broadbent) beggered belief and I still don't think (even though I image she misses him a lot) the film should have imagined these conversation betwen the two of them were entirely right. This is a film licence too far to be believable.
Thatcher was an out and out ambitious woman from the very start of her career and manipulated people to suit her own ends.
Family life was never a consideration for her and she certainly showed no maternal instrinct towards her childre. She was rather cold and aloof, not only with her family, but with the maority of the people she associated with.
Meryl Streep captured something of her character and gave a very credible performance and duly deerved te Best Actress Oscar and Best actress BAFTA awards.
I think the film could have been a lot better, but it is always difficult picking out events from her 11 years premiership
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