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I've seen two films this weekend. And whilst I'm an awful reviewer, I am going to write briefly about Match Point and Jarhead.
I saw Match Point tonight. To start with the basics - it's a Woody Allen film, removed from his usual location of New York and transplanted to London. It's a story about luck. One of the taglines you might hear is "I Don't Care if He's Great, I Just Hope He's Lucky".
It's a good film overall. Chris (Jonathon Rhys-Meyers) plays a character who appears to be a nice person at the beginning of the film, until of course he meets struggling actress Nola (Scarlett Johansson). And who can blame him? She is the lovliest thing... we watch the relationship between Chris and Chloe Hewett (Emily Mortimer) develop and then fall apart thanks to Nola's charms, and the fact that Chris is obviously enjoying the affair he's having with her.
We watch this relationship fall apart at the same time as Chris is climbing the corporate ladder thanks to the Hewetts owning a massive business and her influence on her dad, the head of the Hewett empire. Obviously we know that Nola and Chloe are totally at odds with each other and there's no way that Chris can have his cake, and eat her *cough* it too.
When Nola becomes pregnant, the story comes to a head in a most unexpected way.
The story is at times daft, at times deep but it is throughout engaging. The acting on the part of Jonathon Rhys Meyers wasn't perfect and at times it felt like he was acting, but in general the parts were well played. The cinematography was excellent, with intelligent and well thought out scenes.
I also saw Jarhead yesterday. Now I only really wanted to see it because I love Jake Gyllenhaal, but I was completely sucked in by the film. It's ostensibly a film about war, but it's not really. There's very little actual war. We follow the story of Swoff (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his journey through operation desert shield/storm in the US Marines. It's a story of boredom and how to handle it, emotional breakdown, desperation for action and interaction between the marines in their "group" (I can't remember the proper name...squadron?!).
It was really well done, not tacky or over emotional, not like any other films that may try to cover similar ground that I have seen! Well worth watching.
I saw Match Point tonight. To start with the basics - it's a Woody Allen film, removed from his usual location of New York and transplanted to London. It's a story about luck. One of the taglines you might hear is "I Don't Care if He's Great, I Just Hope He's Lucky".
It's a good film overall. Chris (Jonathon Rhys-Meyers) plays a character who appears to be a nice person at the beginning of the film, until of course he meets struggling actress Nola (Scarlett Johansson). And who can blame him? She is the lovliest thing... we watch the relationship between Chris and Chloe Hewett (Emily Mortimer) develop and then fall apart thanks to Nola's charms, and the fact that Chris is obviously enjoying the affair he's having with her.
We watch this relationship fall apart at the same time as Chris is climbing the corporate ladder thanks to the Hewetts owning a massive business and her influence on her dad, the head of the Hewett empire. Obviously we know that Nola and Chloe are totally at odds with each other and there's no way that Chris can have his cake, and eat her *cough* it too.
When Nola becomes pregnant, the story comes to a head in a most unexpected way.
The story is at times daft, at times deep but it is throughout engaging. The acting on the part of Jonathon Rhys Meyers wasn't perfect and at times it felt like he was acting, but in general the parts were well played. The cinematography was excellent, with intelligent and well thought out scenes.
I also saw Jarhead yesterday. Now I only really wanted to see it because I love Jake Gyllenhaal, but I was completely sucked in by the film. It's ostensibly a film about war, but it's not really. There's very little actual war. We follow the story of Swoff (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his journey through operation desert shield/storm in the US Marines. It's a story of boredom and how to handle it, emotional breakdown, desperation for action and interaction between the marines in their "group" (I can't remember the proper name...squadron?!).
It was really well done, not tacky or over emotional, not like any other films that may try to cover similar ground that I have seen! Well worth watching.