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St George's Day (2012)
Lock stock it is not
After appearing in several Brit-flick gangster films Frank Harper has decided to test himself at directing his own. Unfortunately it has not gone to plan. The film failed to hold my attention after maybe ten minutes, when I realised it is just another film filled with tired London gangster film clichés. It wasn't that it was badly acted, just that the storyline failed to interest me in anyway and the characters much the same. Please take note Frank, it's not enough to just throw Russians, drug deals gone wrong and some cockney slang into the mix and think you have a film. Best to avoid this film you will be doing yourselves a favour.
Haywire (2011)
Just a really badly directed film
Beside the rating of 1 out of 10 it has in brackets (awful). This is just the word to describe this film, it is truly awful.
I really can't believe what I am reading in some reviews praising this film because I must say this film was one of the poorest excuses for a spy thriller I have ever had to endure, can you believe I picked this over Ghost Protocol in the DVD store? I haven't read one review on Tom Cruise's latest film but I know it wil be better than this.
The only good thing about this film was the well-choreographed fight scenes that are not enough to make a film watchable. I don't think I seen any blood drawn though so maybe I'm being over-the-top in saying they were good, they did not redemm this film in any way.
Wooden acting by the female lead, long drawn out sequences in the film were nothing much is happening, a very loose story-line that I didn't really care much about. I would rate this film as 1 star for everything apart from the fight scenes, they get a 3. A decent cast that somehow got fooled into making this terrible film, I feel sorry for them. I wonder just how awkward it must have been the first time they sat down to watch the edited cut?
This film should have went straight to DVD and even at that should have come with a warning as to just how bad a film this is. I blame the director entirely.
I believe there is a lot of false PR being put out online praising this film because I have never felt the need to write a review on a film until I watched this. I can think of two really badly acted/directed films I've previously seen but they turned out to be the film director's student films dressed up as a feature film, Haywire was just as bad.