STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning
A young woman named Alice (Maggie Grace) runs in front of a cab driven by Whitey (Danny Dyer) who ends up being her unwitting chauffeur through-out a series of increasingly wild and outlandish events that lead to explain why she's being hunted by a load of people for...some reason or other. Malice in Wonderland has the dubious honour of being the one film I've seen in ages where if a plot existed, I failed to make it out. Obviously intended as a post modernist take on the well known 'Alice' in Wonderland fairy tale (given even more credence given Tim Burton's recent big screen adaptation of the story) all it really manages to achieve is a complete and utter feeling of 'what the hell is going on?' It's a messy bad acid trip of a film, which I've just found out is set in the North East of England but could just have easily have been London for all I could make out (even more confusing given the inclusion of cockney actors Matt King and lead star Dyer.) If even early on, it's got you lost and confused it doesn't get any easier as it goes on and Simon Fellows never lets up on the increasing eccentricity and nonsense.
Dyer remains one of the more curious actors of this generation, so it's always interesting to see where his career goes, but more far off projects like this might get him a more off kilter fan base. *
A young woman named Alice (Maggie Grace) runs in front of a cab driven by Whitey (Danny Dyer) who ends up being her unwitting chauffeur through-out a series of increasingly wild and outlandish events that lead to explain why she's being hunted by a load of people for...some reason or other. Malice in Wonderland has the dubious honour of being the one film I've seen in ages where if a plot existed, I failed to make it out. Obviously intended as a post modernist take on the well known 'Alice' in Wonderland fairy tale (given even more credence given Tim Burton's recent big screen adaptation of the story) all it really manages to achieve is a complete and utter feeling of 'what the hell is going on?' It's a messy bad acid trip of a film, which I've just found out is set in the North East of England but could just have easily have been London for all I could make out (even more confusing given the inclusion of cockney actors Matt King and lead star Dyer.) If even early on, it's got you lost and confused it doesn't get any easier as it goes on and Simon Fellows never lets up on the increasing eccentricity and nonsense.
Dyer remains one of the more curious actors of this generation, so it's always interesting to see where his career goes, but more far off projects like this might get him a more off kilter fan base. *