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6/10
Low budget Brit flick with predictable plot twists...
3 May 2010
Warning: Spoilers
When I walked into the cinema and was greeted on screen by the bleak English weather, the B&Q saw and the actual "milanotan" coloured bed that I actually own, I almost groaned to myself... Oh no, not another English film that should have gone "straight to bin" never mind "straight to DVD"...

But then minutes in and we hadn't heard a word of dialogue and I liked it's quirky, fast-paced introduction... But this quirky fast paced intro soon turned into a long, drawn out, obviously low budget Brit flick with a few slightly predictable but nevertheless mildly interesting plot twists.

Don't expect to be blown away by the twists here... You'll find yourself accurately predicting the twists at times, and other times thinking of twists that actually would have made the film better...

See I don't like to watch trailers, I feel it gives away the whole film, so I had no idea what to expect.. Why it had an 18 certificate I'll never know. Open any Sun newspaper or google pretty much ANYTHING and you'll see a pair of women bits... Other than this, there was no need for the certificate. It's not scary. It's not particularly violent. And the nudism is nothing any 15 year old hasn't seen already.

This film COULD have been really good, but it wasn't. It was just OK... but on a boring bank holiday Monday, there was worst things I could have done with my evening. Just wish I'd have been training dragons instead.
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The Pacific (2010)
2/10
Poor casting. Poor story. No chemistry. Bad acting.
2 May 2010
The biggest problem with The Pacific is... We just don't care.

We SHOULD care... but we don't.

We have NO emotion invested in the characters... We know nothing about them.

There's no on-screen chemistry... There's no real feeling of connection, brother-ship, tension or fear, beyond the vacuous amateur, drama school acting.

The vast majority of the cast can't actually act very well at all, and the few that can, aren't given the script to be able to work it into anything we truly start to care about.

And I think that is half the problem. The casting.

I can just imagine the casting team talking prior to making this film, "oh yes, this guy is gonna be the next Tom Hanks..." when referring to James Badge Dale who plays PFC Robert Leckie...

Well. No. No he isn't. Because Tom hanks can ACT.

When Dale isn't staring at the camera he's pulling overly strange, over-acted faces leaving us watching and thinking that we don't actually know what he's thinking, but we're meant to.

And call this a quirk I've noticed or call it me nit-picking about nothing but...

I've never seen so many curly haired people in my whole life, the casting team quite simply had a curly hair fetish. It seems over 50% of the cast in the Pacific seem to have CURLY hair... at least in the first 4 or 5 episodes.

See, I shouldn't have noticed their curly hair... But that's the point, I was that unengaged... That cold to the characters, story and script that I DID start to notice their hair cuts... It really put me off!

So without going on any further, what should have been an absolute triumph, turned out to be a real disappointment.

Poor casting. Poor story. No chemistry. Bad acting. Loosely strung together mish-mash of dull characters.

It gets points for trying... but not many.
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