I'm glad when a movie like this finds an audience. First of all, its not typical Hollywood product, which is a magnificent beginning, and you know that the director/screenwriter just had a vision of what kind of movie that they could make and didn't get all caught up in all that LA garbage you hear about. They actually had a story to tell, had to sell it, and someone believed in the project.
I found some of the romantic/dramatic subplots slightly juvenile, but I'm a 40-something guy so its kind of natural that kind of thing might annoy me at times.
I'd only seen Rhys-Myers in "Velvet Goldmine", which I didn't enjoy, but here he's very good and has a lot qualities I like in an actor. His eyes are very expressive and the camera picks that up. You don't learn that, you just have it or you don't. I like him enough to risk seeing the project he's doing for Woody Allen. For all the sub-par movies Woody's made in the past ten years, I never once questioned his choice of actors, and I'm certainly not starting now.
Have fun with the movie. It doesn't change the world and, thankfully, doesn't want to either. 7/10.
I found some of the romantic/dramatic subplots slightly juvenile, but I'm a 40-something guy so its kind of natural that kind of thing might annoy me at times.
I'd only seen Rhys-Myers in "Velvet Goldmine", which I didn't enjoy, but here he's very good and has a lot qualities I like in an actor. His eyes are very expressive and the camera picks that up. You don't learn that, you just have it or you don't. I like him enough to risk seeing the project he's doing for Woody Allen. For all the sub-par movies Woody's made in the past ten years, I never once questioned his choice of actors, and I'm certainly not starting now.
Have fun with the movie. It doesn't change the world and, thankfully, doesn't want to either. 7/10.