Unbelievable tosh throughout. Terrible plot and acting, attempted style and no content. The soundtrack bleared all the way through which was the best thing as it covered the characters. Ray Winston is one dimensional - watch him as Henry viii - "I wanna ave a san" LOL. Repulsive sex story between Winston and a female cop. Carter was played by a plank. The Sweeney in the Met could not exist as portrayed in this day and age - 70s is where is belongs and trying to update it was a total failure in all departments. If is wasn't on free TV I wouldn't have watched it and I only continued to view it because it was so abysmally boring and amusing.
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Anna Karenina
(I) (2012)
A complete load of tosh
12 September 2012
Warning: Spoilers
12/09/32012 Having just managing to sit through 2 hours of this clap trap without losing the will to live, I agree entirely with mark of London East Grinstead. The worst parts were the theatrical performances - absolutely sickening - like Oliver without the songs.
I agree with the review of mark below:
"Contrived, forced and pretentious, this movie is over worked, 7 September 2012 5/10 Author: mark from London, East Grinstead
It took me about an hour to stop being irritated by the movie's self consciousness, to sort of enjoy it... but the damage was done.
As viewers, we have no reason to believe in the love Anna finds. He is creepy and give us no inkling of why she might ruin her life for him.
Kiera isn't bad, just annoying, considering we have no empathy for her self indulgence. If her husband was worse, her love a lot nicer, and if we could feel electricity between them, it would be a different matter, but the fact is the movie is too busy being clever... it misses out on having a heart and soul.
The theatre gimmick got in the way, and seemed like a cheap way of having Moscow backdrops without actually travelling there.
5/10"
I agree with the review of mark below:
"Contrived, forced and pretentious, this movie is over worked, 7 September 2012 5/10 Author: mark from London, East Grinstead
It took me about an hour to stop being irritated by the movie's self consciousness, to sort of enjoy it... but the damage was done.
As viewers, we have no reason to believe in the love Anna finds. He is creepy and give us no inkling of why she might ruin her life for him.
Kiera isn't bad, just annoying, considering we have no empathy for her self indulgence. If her husband was worse, her love a lot nicer, and if we could feel electricity between them, it would be a different matter, but the fact is the movie is too busy being clever... it misses out on having a heart and soul.
The theatre gimmick got in the way, and seemed like a cheap way of having Moscow backdrops without actually travelling there.
5/10"
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