Only it's director encouraged me to see this weird movie. Nicolas Winding Refn's "homage" to the fashion industry follows sixteen ("always say nineteen") year old Jesse (an interesting performance from Elle Fanning) through the minefield of LA models. Why LA? Just typical of this director. The dialogue and acting are on the surface really poor. But wait a sec. That is how they all sound? I just wanted more plot. Fortunately Jena Malone’s Ruby is deviously malicious as a makeup artist who divides her time between painting the faces of the living and the dead.
Beyond what? I'm not sure we ever found out. The new Star Trek movie is a moderately enjoyable run through of plots we have seen before. But the screenplay by Simon Pegg and Doug Jung just about saves the day, trying hard as it does to be witty and sharp. Not sure that director Justin Lin made the most of the hugely expensive sets, the action seemed to be mostly by numbers.
Another director whose films I never miss. Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon have been tempted back after a nine year absence to make another Bourne installment. A pretty simple plot and limited dialogue but the set pieces in Athens, London ( I had no idea how Paddington Basin had grown) and Los Angeles are amazing. All three involve huge crowds and innumerable extras. Tommy Lee Jones as the CIA chief looked too old and assistant Alicia Vikander too young, but that's all part of the fun. A great spectacle but curiously uninvolving.
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