Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2013
6 films · 6 reviews
If it sometimes feels like Wan's falling back on the tricks of the trade, he's also often able to spin something unexpected out of the familiar.
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: James Wan; Writer: Chad Hayes, Carey Hayes; Stars: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga)
Tempered by a script that leads in directions that feel a bit silly at times.
(Country: Japan; Year: 2013; Director: Hideo Nakata; Writer: Ryûta Miyake, Jun'ya Katô; Stars: Atsuko Maeda, Hiroki Narimiya, Masanobu Katsumura, Naomi Nishida, Kanau Tanaka)
Raaphorst and scriptwriter Chris W Mitchell seem so proud of the look that they completely forget that a film also needs to have a decent plot and characters lying beneath the costumes.
(Country: Netherlands, US; Year: 2013; Director: Richard Raaphorst; Writer: Chris W Mitchell, Richard Raaphorst, Miguel Tejada-Flores; Stars: Karel Roden, Joshua Sasse, Robert Gwilym, Alexander Mercury, Luke Newberry, Hon Ping Tang, Andrei Zayats, Mark Stevenson, Cristina Catalina, Jan de Lukowicz, Zdenek Barinka, Linda Balabanova, Valentine Berning, Ivana Lokajová, Klaus Lucas)
Outpost 3's menagerie of menace is a muddle.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Kieran Parker; Writer: Rae Brunton; Stars: Bryan Larkin, Ivan Kamaras Michael McKell, Velibor Topic, Alec Utgoff, Laurentiu Possa)
For all its bombast – the thwacks, the thuds, the slowed-down bang of a gunshot – one never really believes these guys are in trouble.
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Edgar Marie; Writer: Edgar Marie; Stars: Olivier Marchal, Jacques Gamblin, Carlo Brandt, Reda Kateb, Francis Renaud, Big John, Delabie Alan, Muratt Atik, Anne Charrier, Laure Marsac, Sophie Meister, Michael Morgante, Igor Skreblin)
Good documentary finds something interesting, great documentary shows us its subject in an interesting way, and this is a great documentary - brilliant, even.
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Morgan Matthews)
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