Just what you would expect from a Luc Besson movie. Revisiting elements from Nikita, Leon (still one of my favourite films) Colombiana and Lucy but not as "coherent" as any of those. Just the bonkers stuff from The Fifth Element. Basically a KGB assassination plot, I was just waiting until the action arrived in Salisbury.The time jumps stopped us getting bored. Helen Mirren was virtually unrecognisable as the chief.
Predictably enchanting even if the story and dialogue was not up to the best of Richard Curtis. However, as a vehicle for the songs of The Beatles (think Mama Mia) it was fair enough. There was good chemistry between the two leads, Himesh Patel a fish out of water and Lily James made to look as frumpy as possible (they failed). But for a romcom, they were apart for much of the movie.
What sold it to me was when, quite early on, comes I Saw Her Standing There. I was eighteen again, 1963, dancing at the sixth form leaving do. OK, the lyrics would not be appropriate these days,far too creepy. But it was great to hear the songs in a completely different environment. I enjoyed the new interpretations. And for us talentless mortals, the story provided that "if, if, if". In the director's chair, Danny Boyle did the movie proud.
Not so much a horror movie as a fantasy with added gore. The writer and director Ari Aster has maintained it deviates from something like The Wicker Man, but it didn't. Only that it wasn't as scary. I thought the theme of the last two lines from Hotel California outweighed those depicting mental breakdown, home and family. Here Florence Pugh is predictably excellent. The rest of the large cast was mainly populated from characters based on Christopher Lee and his flock, beards, flowing hair and all. It was a long movie, I thought there was too much padding in the Swedish scenes. I would have preferred more of Dani's back story. And what happened to Connie? I only found out afterwards online.
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