BTM February 2012 83 dvds The Ides of March The casting is probably the only good thing about this movie; anyone else could have been in their place and it’d still be one where you end up shrugging by the time the credits roll up. It took patience. Although told well, it could have had a better storyline. Final Destination 5 Four yawns and a snore will not do justice to explaining how horridly boring this thriller ended up. If you’re in it for the gore and the suspense, you’ll feel like you got free candyfloss and a bubble machine. Four would have been more than enough! The Guard RATING: DIRECTED BY: John Michael McDonagh STARRING: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle THE PLOT: Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humour, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door. When the smuggling ring lands up in his town he finds his world turned upside down, to an extent that it might wipe him off the face of the Earth. WORTH WATCHING? Wry humour isn’t a favourite among most viewers; but film buffs know for a fact that it is the best kind. The movie takes some getting used to and slowly you begin to see that your viewpoint flows with the plot. Once you’ve got past the slow pace, you are hooked. Don’t expect the usual over-dramatised scenes of mafia flicks. It’s as simple a tale as can be, with an interesting twist. DVD OF THE MONTH VERDICT: A movie like this one comes by very rarely. You either love it or you hate it.
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