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36th Precinct (2004)
Starts promisingly: doesn't deliver.
17 July 2010
I really wanted to like 36. It opens slick and energetic and it retains those two qualities throughout. The problem is that it picks up no other qualities along the way.

The promising looking cast are a let down. The plot veers all over the place. By the end of the film I found it impossible to care why anyone was chasing around doing whatever it was they were doing.

36 isn't awful. It is a pacey and at times very entertaining thriller, but it falls far short of its lofty target.

If you want a cop versus cop thriller watch Heat. If you want a French thriller watch The Beat That My Heart Skipped. If 36 happens to be on the telly one evening, well, you could do worse.
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V's flashy entertainment is simplistic and unrewarding
17 July 2010
Warning: Spoilers
I have just realised that by watching V for Vendetta this evening I have missed Cronenberg's Eastern Promises on another channel. In light of V being awful that is genuinely annoying.

There are several reviews here that deal with the poverty of the film's simplistic political message, its clumsy script and its nonsensical plot. (Evey imprisoned by V? Come off it. Dietrich's ludicrous decision to lampoon the High Chancellor? Totally unbelievable.)

I didn't care for the characters, I didn't care for the politics and I didn't care for the production.

Where does it get the 2 points I've given it from? There are worse films that deserve lesser rewards. Oh, and I liked the explosions.
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Underworld (1997)
Underworld rides out the Cockney gangster clichés
28 June 2010
With its pathetic drip of a hero and its Cockney gangster psychopaths Underworld could easily have been just another clumsy comedy pastiche, instead it is a gem.

The series is well written, produced and directed, its story brought to life by superb performances. It has an engaging plot whose many twists are sustained by a witty script.

Underworld is a kind of Midsommer Murders-paced bastard child of Mike Leigh and Guy Ritchie (although I think it pre-dates Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels).

This is a great show, and can currently be watched for free on Channel 4's "4OD" website in the UK - which I highly recommend you do!
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