Saturday, March 20, 2004
Movie Review - Intermission (2004)
Thoughts going in: Two things I like: ensemble films, and English/Irish films. And with a cast featuring Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later), Colm Meaney and the luscious Kelly MacDonald, I'm there.
Thoughts going out: Enjoyable, if a bit slight. Best way to describe this film would be "Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels" meets "Love Actually", as various romantic stories interlock with a doomed crime caper. Kind of ingenious marketing at play here - get the guys in for the gunplay, and the women in for the chick flick angle. None of it adds to up to a whole lot, but everyone gets their just desserts/comeuppance/rewards in the end (right down to the asshole boss from the warehouse club where Murphy works), and it's never boring. Great soundtrack, too: Ron Sexsmith, The Magnetic Fields, and the piece de resistance, Farrell warbling "I Fought The Law" (or "Lore" as he "sings" it) over the closing credits.
Rating (1-100): 71.
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Thoughts going out: Enjoyable, if a bit slight. Best way to describe this film would be "Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels" meets "Love Actually", as various romantic stories interlock with a doomed crime caper. Kind of ingenious marketing at play here - get the guys in for the gunplay, and the women in for the chick flick angle. None of it adds to up to a whole lot, but everyone gets their just desserts/comeuppance/rewards in the end (right down to the asshole boss from the warehouse club where Murphy works), and it's never boring. Great soundtrack, too: Ron Sexsmith, The Magnetic Fields, and the piece de resistance, Farrell warbling "I Fought The Law" (or "Lore" as he "sings" it) over the closing credits.
Rating (1-100): 71.
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