interesting film this and certainly a film i wanna see again, as getting to the end of this it certainly dawned on me i was watching in a different way, to what was happening on screen, and maybe that was the point, as it went to a okay film to a pretty good film, and knowing events are seen from a certain prespective, a pretty good watch. james macavoy stars as a groundman who has a thing for a respectable familys daughter in the 1930s played by keira knightley, while watching all these events are sister briony played by saoirse ronan who is a bit jealous of the situation, when a crime happens she fingers him as the culprit, more out of spite than anything else,and is arrested and sent to prison, cut to the war we see all charactors living there life and how events will or will not keep the two lovers apart, we see briony grow up into a young woman, and how that moment efected her life, everyones great in this especiially mcavoy, a young ewan mcgregor i see. great wartime setting, and the score is amazing, a great use of a typewriter, which does play a vital point in the film, so makes sence, and although it dident fully draw me in, the ending changed my mind and made really good sence
forest whiticker, takes on amin, the ugandan president, and up and coming james macavoy as scottish doctor trying to make a diference, but maybe getting to close to the president, both on fine form, macavoy portrays a cockey british guy, out of his depth, and whiticker, just chilling, although based on fact, i believe macavoys doctor is made up, but it makes a interesting story, as told through the young mans eyes, really authentic, ugandan setting, and story takes us places,
another winning role for james mcavoy, like ewen mcgregor in 90s, hes really making name for him self, here hes great as a college kid, dreaming of apearing on a famous british college show, and struggles along the way to get his dream, a light hearted look, with a really cool 80s setting, great soundtrack and humour, runs along quite nicely
action fantasy, very matrix, not as influential, but certainly entertaining enough, with some great action sequences throughout, a silly premise, but done in a entertaining way, macavoy comes off great, entertaining to watch as a everyman, leading a new life, some funny moments throughout, and angie jolie stunning as usuall, in a good role showing her hard arse women,
charming tale if not entirely sucessful, rikki plays penelpe a girl cursed by having a pigs nose, and is locked away for her own good by parents, to reverse curse a special type of husband must be found, but no guy,,after seeing her wants anything to do wither her, due to one guys disgust, he and reporter played exellently by peter dinklage try to get photo to clear there names, as they been tarnished, and get in a young man played by james macavoy, to get it, and predictably he falls in love, all this and penelope trying hard to come to terms with her situation, this film is muddled in some ways, first off its set in london, penelope sheltered all life has american acent, macavoy is playing american not his natural scottish or even english, this film also seems very light and looking at it it be perfect for tim burton, rikki is charming enough and brings a lot to the role, and macavoy is best thing here, doing a unnessery american acent but great one at that, and bringing a lot to his role, as penelpe leaves comforts of home , maybe here the film looses focas, and the plot goes a little of, even producer reece witherspoon popping up quite a bit in second half as new friend, but seems misplaced and oviously only done it as shes producing, but ill say ne thing, shed also make a exellent penelope(why dident she do it) this film has been sitting on studio shelve for two years, and seems macavoy's sudden fame has saved film, amd been released, so not a bad film at all, good performances save the day
a lot of films have been adapted from austin books, so now we get a version of her life, its ok but just shows that her life wasent as exiting as her charactors in her books, so watch pride and predudice instead, although can see fans of her being exited