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Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
The Best
This has got to be the best British comedy of all time. A wonderful role for a brilliant actress (her best performance since Jerry Maguire), this is a woman's film that final cuts through the crap and deals with the issues, in a weight obsessed world full of twig like models Bridget is as good as it gets!
Heartlands (2002)
Stereotypical tosh!
I am the only one that hates seeing anyone North of London represented on screen by dim witted bear guzzling slobs that sit around all day in pubs and working mens clubs saying right lad, how's thee doing screwing each others best mates wifes! Complete stereotypical yarbles, dated as an episode of Coronation street from the seventies. Come on mister writer catch up the decades lad!
Randall's Flat (2001)
A good idea ruined? - SPOILER included - Judas Snoop
Randall's Flat tells the story of a man who becomes infatuated with a cocaine and alcohol whilst attempting to make the biggest drugs deal of his life. The thing is that the above does sound a rather good idea, and as a treatment must have sounded great. The problem lies in the having a single Writer/Producer/Director. While this one man band (Chris Atkins)had a good idea and did excellently to raise the (limited) finance the film has suffered from their being no counterbalance to his warped vision. The dialogue is less natural than George Lucas's worst excesses and is further impaired by some sketchy dubbing work - nor is there any member of the decidedly amateurish cast to lift their lines out of the mire ala Harrison Ford. Some good lighting work in small locations is undone by peculiar use of color with no regard to the mood of the film at that point.
Pitched as a light-hearted film it does veer briefly towards comedy with the appearance of Chris Atkins himself as an unintentionally camp yuppie in a bar scene with his co-producer Charles Auty. Any temptation to giggle is soon reversed by confusing plot twists and more bad acting. I gave this film a 2. Made by someone else it could get a 7 or 8.