What can I say, it was quite fun and looked good on the cineworld superscreen. There was some surpringly subtle comedy along the way and I loved the reference to the Lawrence of Arabia music when they hit the desert.
Despite the dated and uninspiring source material, Greta Gerwig has fashioned a superb movie with a great cast. Her adaptation is spot on, although I did have to get used to the many switches in time along the way. The acting is superb throughout. Timothee Shalamet is surprisingly good, although it is Florence Pugh who steals the show. Chris Cooper also deserves a mention for a subtle performance. It should be a shoe-in for awards for costumes and production design. The music by Alexandre Desplatwas also top notch. This was a warm and emotional film with a wonderful ending.
I was amazed that I laughed so much, I didn't expect it to not take itself so seriously. But then it did have an almost unrecognisable Hugh Grant with that amazing cockney lisp. Guy Ritchie has written and directed another of his gangster geezer movies, fortunately the violence is kept to reasonable proportions. Ritchie wants to tell the story and references many movies of the genre, such as the last scene from The Long Good Friday but with a twist. Michelle Dockery, the wife of top dog Mathew McConaughy, is about as far removed from her role in Downton Abbey as it can get. Great casting. I also tried to see what other songs were on the jukebox when Cumberland Gap by Dave Rawlings was selected. The one I did see was Poor Jenny by The Everly Brothers, the superior B-Side to their Take a Message to Mary.
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