Sleeping Monkey Presents...
Hot Fuzz, Blood Diamond, The Good Shepherd
Mar 09 2007Three very different films seen three weeks running (and only £2.60 for each!) and I’d find it hard to say which one I prefer most, as they were all so different.
Hot Fuzz I saw with Ruth Clare and Dan. It is a very very funny film! From the makers of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced, and using basically the same major actors, I knew it was going to be good. Simon Pegg is a brilliant actor, and as one review said, Hot Fuzz is kind of like Midsomer Murders meets Bad Boys II… Lots of nice country bumkins involved in lots of nice country murders and one Detective Barnaby Burnett Angel running round solving all the problems. I’d definately recommend seeing this film if you need a laugh and don’t mind a bit of gore! Oh, and it’s got Alan Rickman in it, Mum…
Blood Diamond I only saw with James Rigby and Dan. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a film about conflict diamond smuggling out of Africa into the US. Leonardo DiCaprio does a passable South African accent (if the South Africans I know are anything to go by), and the film has a very powerful message behind it and definately makes you think. If you want to see a film that’s not a comedy (but has a few funny moments) and makes you think, then go and see this one. I’ll never look the same way at a diamond again – they say they’ve cut down on the amount of conflict diamonds smuggled into the country but how can we be sure? If they’ve come from a place where people were treated like they were in the film, then I don’t want anything to do with them.
The Good Shepherd is again a totally different film, which I saw on Wed night with Ruth Clare, Dan and James Rigby (Orange Wednesdays is really useful when theres even numbers of you). It’s all about the formation of the CIA after the war, and gives a few interesting insights into American foreign policy! It has a very complicated plot to follow, with too many people that look the same and have similar names and accents! But other than that, a very good film. I can’t say I’ve ever seen Matt Damon play a part in any film before (maybe someone could correct me on that) but he didn’t really say that much, which in itself spoke volumes about his charactor, and I thought it was really well acted.
There you go – my film review for the last three weeks!
