2010 Directed by Bernard Rose
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
Luc Roeg Linda James Paul Brett Norman Merry Tim Smith Lisa Enos Michael Robinson Andrew Orr Daniel Shepherd James Perkins David Toso
Мистер Ганджубас, Nice
As the Philip Glass score became more prominent in this Bernard Rose film, I felt a sudden rush of disappointment come over me when I realized I wasn't watching Candyman.
2-stars, not enough Crispin.
Aufgewachsen in einer Kleinstadt in Wales zieht Howard Marks (Rhys Ifans) in den 1960er Jahren mit Stipendium nach Oxford. Dort wird er zwar eher zufällig zu seinem ersten Joint verführt, fängt dafür aber umso schneller an, zu dealen. Als einer seiner Uni-Freude stirbt, distanziert Marks sich zunächst vom Geschäft. Auf einer Party jedoch lässt er sich erneut von den Drogen und dann auch von der bezaubernden Judy (Chloé Sevigny) inreißen, die er später heiratet.
Das alles führt mit Unterbrechungen zu einer Karriere als Boss eines Drogenschmugglerrings, Beziehungen zur IRA und dem MI5 und einer weltweiten Jagt auf Marks.
MR. NICE ist ein unterhaltsamer Film nach wahrer Geschichte, der mit einem gut ausgewählten Cast, passender Ausstattung und guter Kaneraarbeit punkten kann.
Confusing, frivolous, frantic, frustrating and frenetic. Those terms optimise 'Mr. Nice', and I am pretty certain, that the late Howard Marks wouldn't have had it, any other way. I actually met Howard, very briefly, a few years before he passed. The guy was charming, eloquent, but seemed quite detached from the present. He was a man, that was quite obviously living in the past. And, the past, is exactly where this film takes place.
We follow a straight cut Marks, through his younger years. A bullied youth with straight A's at school, he achieves a scholarship to Oxford. This, is not only the making of, but the breaking of; Howard Marks. The next portion of the film is a hedonistic…
An incoherrent mess of a film. I appreciated the odd and somewhat unique visual style and Ifans performance was decent, just nothing else was good about Mr. Nice.
The storytelling is a complete mess. It jumps around from scene to scene with no real sense of rhyme or rythm. I heard a lot of praise around the score and soundtrack, which did nothing for me.
I know this guy is a huge deal in real and considered somewhat as a sort of hero. This film did nothing to give me that idea. He was just some guy who spent all of his time stoned and spent time with the IRA.
I always have a soft-spot for this true stories about criminal scumbags, but this was atrocious.
Most wanted. Most wasted. That was that tag line going into this film.
But what I most wanted was a refund.
Rhys Ifans does an alright job but this film was boring as shit. I learnt more about Howard Marks reading the back of the DVD case then watching the film. Messy cuts, skipping scenes and poor characters.
I almost thought I was as high as Marks was throughout when I clicked my controller to see i still had an hour left when I thought it was about to end.
2 hours I'll never get back......
This film is sadly, a bore. Whatever you may think of celebrity drug smuggler Howard Marks, he never came across as boring.
This is not that engaging, with Rhys Ifans failing to convince as Marks. The fact that it is dope and LSD on a constant loop with not that much plot is tiring, and we get no sense of the character and his motivations.
The book this is based on is much more rewarding. This film is simple tedium.
Biopic of Howard Marks, a notorious British dope smuggler who somehow also got involved with the IRA and MI6. It stars the fantastic Rhys Ifans who successfully makes Marks come across as a nice guy who just accidentally became a dope smuggler. You definitely root for him and the whole episode makes the authorities of various countries look very silly. Only downside for me (not knowing the true story) is how much of this is whitewashed. There is never a scene you get in most drug films of him intimidating people, using violence, maintaining his territory. You never see how he sells the dope, just how he smuggled it. I do wonder if there is a darker side to this story we haven't seen.
You know how they say only potheads like movies based around pot or other potheads?
Well...let's face it...it's true. Guess what? I really dug this film. That doesn't mean I have a problem at all...
(By the way, for anyone who saw the film Naked, am I the only one who thought the guy David Thewlis plays here is like a smoked out version of Johnny?)
A rushed version of Howard Marks' autobiography. Makes clever use of archive footage & Rhys Ifans is perfectly cast. 6/10.
This film is a superb slept on masterpiece....
This movie has it all, romance, love, action, heartbreak, struggle, triumph, craziness, drug trafficking, drug use, redemption, and amazing music. If you liked Blow, American Made, Scarface, and American Gangster you are gonna love this one. One of the best films I’ve seen in quite a long time, don’t know how it slipped under my radar. Do yourself a favor and purchase the Blu-ray!
This movie is part of my Chain Reaction Challenge I.
I am just going to keep this review real short, for fear of going into a deep ramble about drugs, life and why we watch movies at all. Mr. Nice was a decent movie. It has a good leading performance by Rhys Ifans, who is less hyped than in other movies of his. It also has a solid cast of supporting actors and actresses, like Chloe Sevigny and David Thewlis.
This is supposedly a real story, but I have never heard the name Howard Marks, so who am I to judge how true it really is. I will say this, though, it is based on a book written by Marks…
just rly didnt know what was going on at any point of this film tbh. stars for david thewlis tho
It looks and sounds like total shit but, I guess, somewhere in there, there's an interesting story? But, let's be honest, the only real reason to ever watch this film is for David Thewlis doing an Irish accent.
So Howard and I had very different experiences of Balliol..
Had already read that section in the autobiography, and the film renders it well.
The film is necessarily a little confusing what with the country hopping. And boring given what is essentially a depiction of the nitty gritty of illegal transactions.Being an international drug smuggler looks like a pain in the ass. Like the worst bit of going on holiday (packing, organising people) over and over again.
Would have liked more on Howard's supposed intelligence. All I saw was someone who was able to find that tedium vaguely amusing. Maybe that's what doing well at school is: the ability to make tedium amusing.
🎵 I thought: this sounds like a knock-off Philip Glass score from 'The Hours'. I guess it was, by the man himself!
An interesting film about an interesting character. David Thewlis is the MVP though.
Aufgewachsen in einer Kleinstadt in Wales zieht Howard Marks (Rhys Ifans) in den 1960er Jahren mit Stipendium nach Oxford. Dort wird er zwar eher zufällig zu seinem ersten Joint verführt, fängt dafür aber umso schneller an, zu dealen. Als einer seiner Uni-Freude stirbt, distanziert Marks sich zunächst vom Geschäft. Auf einer Party jedoch lässt er sich erneut von den Drogen und dann auch von der bezaubernden Judy (Chloé Sevigny) inreißen, die er später heiratet.
Das alles führt mit Unterbrechungen zu einer Karriere als Boss eines Drogenschmugglerrings, Beziehungen zur IRA und dem MI5 und einer weltweiten Jagt auf Marks.
MR. NICE ist ein unterhaltsamer Film nach wahrer Geschichte, der mit einem gut ausgewählten Cast, passender Ausstattung und guter Kaneraarbeit punkten kann.
Solid enough direction with genuinely emotional moments between the actors. Rhys Ifans was amazing. Chloe Sevigny was good too.
This film is a superb slept on masterpiece....
This movie has it all, romance, love, action, heartbreak, struggle, triumph, craziness, drug trafficking, drug use, redemption, and amazing music. If you liked Blow, American Made, Scarface, and American Gangster you are gonna love this one. One of the best films I’ve seen in quite a long time, don’t know how it slipped under my radar. Do yourself a favor and purchase the Blu-ray!
Howard Marks was an amiable lad from the South Wales valleys (not far from where I live) who also happened to be an international cannabis smuggler. This is a film adaption of his autobiography Mr. Nice, which i've never read myself but was unavoidable during the britpop era in the UK.
It's a bit surface level but I do think this film managed to tell Marks' story coherently. Rhys Ifans was a no-brainer casting as the lead, and he's very convincing. One actor who I didn't expect to see is the incredible Crispin Glover, who pops up as an American drug trafficker who works with Marks. He doesn't get to show off his... crispinness much but just having him there…
Biopic of notorious drug smuggler Howard Marks. It’s reasonable fun but I wouldn’t recommend it even for fans of the renowned dope fiend.
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