London Boulevard
2011 Directed by William Monahan
Synopsis
Not every criminal wants to be one.
"London Boulevard" is the story of a man newly released from prison who falls in love with a reclusive young movie star and finds himself in a duel with a vicious gang
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After the job he done on "The Departed" William Monaghan was hot shit. His screen-writing duties for Mr Scorsese was the trick that finally convinced the Academy that our Marty deserved his place on a role of honour he should have been on twenty years previously.
This directorial debut for Wiliiam Monaghan who doubled up with the screenplay was greeted with a little disdain by critics unimpressed with his London set thriller. The wolves I think unfairly circled on Keira Knightley's less than enamouring performance as an emotionally disturbed actress with heavy baggage. For once she ain't great. As a thriller it does have some great performances, especially from Colin "fecking" Farrell who looks almost as good in a suit… -
Film 91 of "The December Project" 2012
103 minutesI've had my eye on this for a few months now. I like Farrell and Winstone a lot, they are some of my favorite actors from across the pond, and I'm madly in love with Keira Knightly, so at worst I would just dislike it.
The film as a whole was pretty good, I wouldn't hand an Oscar to it but the story was very appealing to me, and I thought the performances from Winstone and Farrell were very good. The main problem I had with this was the soundtrack. I liked a bunch of the tunes, but they played a few songs way too many times and sometimes I felt…
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[Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley] Crazy good cast. I even liked a lot of the characters/performances. And the movie was well shot. The problem? The script doesn’t serve everyone well. First off it is way too crowded. They should have cut the sister, the doctor and the cop story lines for sure. Then they could have had more time to deal with Colin and Keira - Keira in particular. They had the conversation about how women in film are all there just to be naked or get the man to open up. Why then do they pretty much not use Keira? Also, the last 20 minutes seemed so illogical. There were some cool scenes, but they mostly didn’t make any sense in the way the movie was going. This was one of those frustrating films that was almost great, but made too many mistakes to get there.
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'A woman is there to get the hero to talk about himself. About his hopes, about his fears, maybe even about his fascinating, fucking childhood.'
Another prime example of a nice little idea stretched too far, to the point that it get's horribly boring and breaks.
Points to David Thewlis, for making me giggle.
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British cinema is the joke of the world, and this is part of the reason why.
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The film was perfectly bland.
It wasn't a bad movie, but it isnt a note worthy movie either.
There is a lot of violence and moderate action, slight character development and great acting, but I just wasn't enjoying myself all that much. It felt disjointed to be honest.
Colin Farrel is such a great actor and was fantastic in this.
I wasnt expecting David Thewlis to be in it and was pleasantly suprised. He plays a great stoner hippie character and steals the show.
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After the job he done on "The Departed" William Monaghan was hot shit. His screen-writing duties for Mr Scorsese was the trick that finally convinced the Academy that our Marty deserved his place on a role of honour he should have been on twenty years previously.
This directorial debut for Wiliiam Monaghan who doubled up with the screenplay was greeted with a little disdain by critics unimpressed with his London set thriller. The wolves I think unfairly circled on Keira Knightley's less than enamouring performance as an emotionally disturbed actress with heavy baggage. For once she ain't great. As a thriller it does have some great performances, especially from Colin "fecking" Farrell who looks almost as good in a suit… -
Colin Farrell's ex-con works for a reclusive celebrity in this unusual but unsuccessful British Gangster film. 3/10.
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Surprisingly fun, yes the "love story" is a bit awkward and forced into the movie...but the gangster bits are great. Plus the soundtrack is wonderful.
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'A woman is there to get the hero to talk about himself. About his hopes, about his fears, maybe even about his fascinating, fucking childhood.'
Another prime example of a nice little idea stretched too far, to the point that it get's horribly boring and breaks.
Points to David Thewlis, for making me giggle.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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This movie goes nowhere...really, really slowly.
Read my review at...
http://revronmovies.blogspot.com/2013/03/london-boulevard.html
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British cinema is the joke of the world, and this is part of the reason why.
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This movie wants to be Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, but it's not.
The overall storyline is a little flimsy and unconvincing but made worse due to the odd pacing of the scenes. -
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