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The Grey (2011)
Marmite
This is a Marmite film - you're either gonna love it or hate it. The wife got bored halfway through, announced that it was bonkers and left me to it. Sure, there are illogical decisions in it but ignore these and focus on the adventure. This film is being readily attacked for being silly and inconceivable (as are most films?), but if you sit back and accept that the many scenes are the building blocks of the film then its easy to get drawn into Ottway's world.
The film builds up characters whilst at the same time keeping the central, lead character well balanced. Liam Neeson is a brooding, mysterious actor who holds Ottway's sense of purpose together throughout the film. Some of the characters have 'victim' stamped on them from the beginning, whilst others hang on a bit longer than you think. The background music helped keep things ticking along and the ending completed the story.
My criticism of the film is that when the camera shot is close to the action, the wolves are a bit too puppet-like. In this age of CGI, a bit more time and effort could've been spent making them 'life like'. Perhaps dropping the video footage of them altogether and emphasing their sounds and the movement vegetation would've been an interesting approach to build up the suspense.
Keith Lemon: The Film (2012)
Waste of money and time
We saw this the night after the film was released and there seven people in the cinema, so word got around fast about just how good it was! Anyway, I can only comment on the first twenty minutes as we walked out after that.
This 'film' has no direction, no comedy, no quality or merit. It is puerile and a waste of cinema time. It serves only to remind any TV celebrity that the move from small screen to big screen is not an easy one. When we remarked on the quality of the film to the cinema staff they said they hadn't even seen it, because they had heard it was rubbish. Perhaps they could've done the decent thing and cancelled the showing after the first night.