We have some great actors, screenwriters and directors in the UK. This film employed none of them and it painfully showed. I picked it up in the 4 DVDs for a tenner in Blockbuster and still felt I'd been conned.
In the bonus features I was astounded as I watched the cast having a great laugh shouting you 'chants' at each other like demented schoolboys,not funny unless we were going to see 'Carry on Essex Boys'. I found it crass and unnecessary, a bad idea because if you watched the extras first you were already expecting it would be odds on that the film was going to be rubbish..it was. A good Producer and Director would have stopped that nonsense, it degraded the cast and the crew to flippancy.
We all know that morons swear a lot so leave it there, it was shocking when the 'Sex Pistols' did it over thirty years ago, not any more airheads. I just couldn't take these ham actors seriously after that. After the stupid bonus extras I watched the film...the weak script just carried it on until it became brain numbing. Right down to the copying of De Nero's putting the boot in, this lot just looked like cheesy amateurs doing a lot of hammish snorting, shouting and swearing in the guise of telling what was supposed to be a true story. I would think that O'Mahony could have directed it better than Sasha Bennett. At the end after two shots from a cut down 12 bore that would have put a horse's lights out, we are meant to believe Tate makes a dying hate filled rant at his assassin. Do us a favour! Talk about writers getting carried away..do they think we are all 'chants'.
On a brighter note, I thought Vincent Regan and Keirston Wareing were good and as far as I remember also bright enough to stay out of the crass bonus stuff, smart thinking. However, Terry Stone is nothing more than an extra and Tam the Sham and Sasha Bennett would do well to watch the performances of Ray Winstone, Ian McShane and Sir Ben Kingsley. Spend a couple of weeks watching 'Sexy Beast' on a loop...that is acting, directing and screen writing.
In the bonus features I was astounded as I watched the cast having a great laugh shouting you 'chants' at each other like demented schoolboys,not funny unless we were going to see 'Carry on Essex Boys'. I found it crass and unnecessary, a bad idea because if you watched the extras first you were already expecting it would be odds on that the film was going to be rubbish..it was. A good Producer and Director would have stopped that nonsense, it degraded the cast and the crew to flippancy.
We all know that morons swear a lot so leave it there, it was shocking when the 'Sex Pistols' did it over thirty years ago, not any more airheads. I just couldn't take these ham actors seriously after that. After the stupid bonus extras I watched the film...the weak script just carried it on until it became brain numbing. Right down to the copying of De Nero's putting the boot in, this lot just looked like cheesy amateurs doing a lot of hammish snorting, shouting and swearing in the guise of telling what was supposed to be a true story. I would think that O'Mahony could have directed it better than Sasha Bennett. At the end after two shots from a cut down 12 bore that would have put a horse's lights out, we are meant to believe Tate makes a dying hate filled rant at his assassin. Do us a favour! Talk about writers getting carried away..do they think we are all 'chants'.
On a brighter note, I thought Vincent Regan and Keirston Wareing were good and as far as I remember also bright enough to stay out of the crass bonus stuff, smart thinking. However, Terry Stone is nothing more than an extra and Tam the Sham and Sasha Bennett would do well to watch the performances of Ray Winstone, Ian McShane and Sir Ben Kingsley. Spend a couple of weeks watching 'Sexy Beast' on a loop...that is acting, directing and screen writing.