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Big Nothing (2006)
Should have been funnier
The film starts out a little contrived & keeps getting more so but if you can let go & go with the films plot that then you'll probably enjoy this movie.
It aims to give you twist & turns on the blackmail theme gone wrong with some quite funny results, most of the film is them trying not to go to jail as more & more go wrong. The strangest thing in this film is Simon Pegg doing an American accent, it doesn't really work & it took me quite a while to forget it was him & concentrate on the actual character. Once you do that he is pretty funny but this is no Shaun of the Dead.
The best scene is in Reverend Smalls house where they go to collect the money & how everything goes totally wrong in a short while & the film actually becomes funny. Natascha McElhone is good but very under used in the film, the relationship with David Schwimmer doesn't have enough screen time so you don't feel his motivation for him to want the money so bad just to look after them really works.
The film dips in the middle but ends pretty well with almost everyone getting what they deserve.
Bobby (2006)
Good but not great
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the film. A very interesting way of doing a bio-pic. Simply about the people surrounding the events of a sad death, Bobby isn't so much about the man but what Emilio Estevez believes he stood for.
It kept me engaged with the characters through most of the film, some of it does feel contrived & it started to loose its way but the violent events & how they are involved in them brings the piece to the point. The speech from Kennedy about violence, given on the day of Martin Kings murder I believe, really pulls the film back to an emotional punch & what might have been if he had lived.
If they'd cut a few of the characters it could have been a great film.