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Gerald McMorrow (screenplay)
Release Date:
27 February 2009 (UK)
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Reality hasn't got a prayer. more
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The film is a split narrative set simultaneously in contemporary London and in a future metropolis ruled by religious fervor...
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One In The Eye For The Attention-Deficienct Popcorn Cattle
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Eva Green | ... | Emilia Bryant |
 | Ryan Phillippe | ... | Jonathan Preest |
 | Sam Riley | ... | Milo |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Richard Coyle | ... | Dan |
 | Sam Douglas | ... | Saul |
| Jay Fuller | ... | Monk |
| Jeanie Gold | ... | Patient |
 | Bernard Hill | ... | The Individual / Peter Esser |
| Georgia Mackenzie | ... | Teri |
| Art Malik | ... | Tarrant |
| Kika Markham | ... | Naomi |
| Gary Pillai | ... | Doctor |
| Stephen Walters | ... | Wormsnakes / Wasnik |
 | Chris Wilson | ... | Police Officer |
 | Mark Wingett | ... | Frank Grant |
| Susannah York | ... | Margaret |
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Rated R for language.
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98 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Continuity: The man talking to Milo in the room where the red haired woman disappeared to and another unseen character added some tiles to his original cross shaped design on the table. After Milo leaves the camera tilts down as the man writes into his notebook and the additional tiles are gone, reverting back to the cross shape.
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But don't get me wrong. This wasn't fate. For every soul of this deluded population who believed in fate's comic clockwork, they neglect to see the wear and tear beneath the surface. The teeth that grind into the cogs. The damage that fate causes so many in its selfish journey towards just one favourable consequence. The Individual had simply run out of luck, and I was here to collect.
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Yes, it's a slow, slow build-up featuring seemingly unconnected story threads, fantastical settings and comic-book characterisation. Yes, it's all a bit of a muddle at times, and plays like the disconnected fast-cut chapters of a cynically devise modern supermarket bestselling novel.
But it's different.
Not out-there different, just stoically different from the average Hollywood committee-designed faux art-slice. It's a film that refuses to bend to the will of popular expectation and also to the viewer's clamouring desire for exposition.
For that it's to be applauded; it seems remarkable it managed mainstream distribution given the fact so many will be 'bored' ('man') awaiting the connections to satisfy their anticipation.
And you may well gather what's going on before it's explained (with a little ultimate dubiety) on screen, but this is still a well-executed piece of cinema with a solid cast that dares to offer something a little different to current lame traits after seemingly setting itself up as just another by-the-numbers collage.
Clever at times, atmospheric, beautifully shot with a good cast. Worth, nay deserving, of a watch as a mild antidote to patronising Hollywood mainstream. A solid seven out of ten.