Director - Jacques Audiard
Genre - Drama/Crime
Set in France, where prisoners are so free they can dress in whatever fashion they please, have TVs, fridge in their cells and oh...get this, they can take leave days and go out into society. This notion of a 'prison' is a culture shock to us! Does this really happen in real life? Anyway, the story is of a young Arab man who starts out kind of docile in an environment where the Middle Eastern brothers and Corsicans are deadly rivals. Soon, he is asked (well, more like forced really) by the Corsicans to join them and be their gang leader's lap dog, doing his bidding and even making him coffee. A lot of stock, stereotypical scenes involving gangsters with hard ons for indiscriminate infliction of pain ensue and our lamb soon becomes a wolf, taking his time, planning his move to get a leg up on his racist, mean as nails errant master. Overlong and tiresome to watch, we felt like we were serving a sentence in prison too alongside the characters. Although, we must add that the prison featured here looks really comfortable!
2 STARS!
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each to their own i guess.
p.s I generally agree with most your reviews, I'm honestly a little taken back, like a child who's just found out there's no Sanata
I don't know about taking leaves, but I definitely could vouch for getting TVs (I've even heard of cable), and other perks in prison. People often find ways to get cellphones, and even get to pull of some crimes from inside jail. xD
I thought it was quite spiritual LOL
Thank you for your comments Patrick and Amy. Always a pleasure to hear from you, Amy!
Anyway, I read in your blog description that you review cult classics as well. I was wondering what your take on the 'Planet of the Apes' was & whether or not you'll be watching the next installment or the "prequel". If you haven't already checked out the trailers, here's one http://www.youtube.com/user/ApesWillRiseUAE?feature=mhee
I look forward to reading your review (if you do write on, of course)...I might just pick this whole series up for my film studies report.
I honestly haven't seen the film, but 1MFRs comments lead me to assume I won't like it either. When I was reading your review I had to scroll up real quick to make sure I was reading the review for "A Prophet", because your comments didn't go along with what the title makes the movie sound like.
There have been times where I've seen a show with a title that doesn't make any sense with the film and I usually didn't like the show, so I'm assuming I won't like this one, so thanks for the heads up.
(One exception to that however is the film "Catfish", of which the title seemed ridiculous all the way until the punchline/explanation at the end)
good review
-ken
kensfilmreview.wordpress.com
In 'Planet of the Apes', the humans are the ones who have the tables turned on them. It is difficult to tell who is in the right here and that is what makes it interesting. Burton's version somehow didn't reflect all these complicated nuances. It was just entertainment and perhaps the most damning part is, Mark Wahlberg can never compare to Charlton Heston.
We're quite interested in the new installment. A 'prequel' means that we're going to see how and why the apes rebelled. Why they went bananas! Freida Pinto and James Franco make a refreshing combination too. Hopefully, they won't screw it up like Burton did.
Ken - We would like some kind soul out there to tell us what the title means too. You're welcome on the heads up and thank you for your comment.
My blog posts are a little less frequent, but I have a fairly unique slant - I'm a film maker who writes film reviews. Do check it out!
http://barksonfilm.blogspot.com/
Thanks for your comment Nostra.