Man I feel like a total philistine but this film was just dull. There was some impressive technical work but the plot swithced between overly predicatble and totally loopy.
Also: Charlton Heston as a Mexican? No!
Valuable sentiment: police work is supposed got be hard, the only place where it's not is in a police state.
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As good as the first one. More a horror film, the plot is flaky in the extreme and I found myself supporting the actinos of the military pretty consistently. Not usual for a zombie film. Maybe it was because the civilians weren't behaving in an even remotely convincing way for survivors of highly contagious plague which had wiped out nearly the entire population of Great Britain, really you just wouldn't try to sneak out of the safe area, they needed to be fire bombed.
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Really enjoyable. Not the Cohen Brothers at their best (that would be Fargo or Millers crossing for me) but a nice addition to their CV along the quirky lines of The Hudsucker Proxy but with a more serious edge.
Watching it on a TV it didn't hang together quite as well as I remembered from the cinema but only in a small way. The music, produced by the great T Bone Burnett is brilliant and I've been humming it all week.
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There's not much story to speak of here; Marie Anoinette gets married, doesn't enjoy the strictures of the French court but gets used to it and lives a decadent and unreflected life, lots of cake and nice dresses, she does all this to a poorly integrated soundtrack of post-punk pop hits.
So Sofia Coppola has made another film about how terribly difficult it is to be an over-privileged young woman (biographical much?). We never see anything outside a very small world. The script, such as it is, could be lifted straight from a film set in 2006 so what's the point in setting this in France on the cusp of revolution? Well mainly so that Vivienne Westwood can really go to town on the costume designs, undoubtedly the films saviour.
The whole film is infected with the dullness and emptiness of it's characters who the cast largely fail to bring to life. There were points at which I though, "this is supposed to be some comment on celebrity or something" but most of the time such comments are banal and really this is a poorly made film which luckily has some nice costumes in it. Also confirmed my suspicions that Kirsten Dunst really isn't a very good actress.
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