AwwDannyBhoy Reviews

Toryboy the Movie (2010)

Dull

[1/10 · 8 December 2011]

So Mr Walsh has set his own company up and the trials and tribulations of living life without a regular pay cheque has driven him into the arms of David Cameron and his off-shore tax-sheltered cronies.

The drama escalates as, oh gosh, John Walsh discovers there's a Labour candidate not doing his job. Well tell us something else that's new John. You could just as easily have found a Tory who is neglecting the most needy in their constituency. This is Politics in the UK in 2011. MPs are a shabby lot - we knew this without needing you to tell us.

This is not as its own publicity suggests 'thought provoking', 'comedic',or 'explosive'. It is genuinely tedious, self important, and - if this is 'the documentary of the year' - depressing in its shallowness.

At a time when we do need insightful political documentaries this is a shocking waste of time and resources.

With a running time of ninety minutes it is an hour and a half too long for my liking.

World Trade Center (2006)

Paramount wasted their money - don't waste yours

[1/10 · 9 October 2006]

The remarkable thing about the film 'Apollo 13' is that although you know how the story ends, the film-makers still achieve story telling of the highest order. Not so, this shameless piece of Yankee propaganda.

It is arrant nonsense to say that this is not a political film - there would be NO film without the politics, yet Stone affects to ignore that this awful event prompted one of the most evil misuses of military-industrial power in modern history. More innocent Afghanis were slaughtered by an act of blind vengeance than the total number of innocent victims of September 11th.

As another person commented on this site, you'd think that the two NY cops buried in this film were the only victims... This film represents the low point of an otherwise interesting and often laudable career as a film maker.

And apart from all the above, even if you take issue with the politics I refer to, I defy you say that this is not the most boring two hours you've ever endured in a cinema.

Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004)

Avoid at all costs

[1/10 · 30 December 2004]

It is difficult to find words to describe this unique piece - drivel, garbage, insulting rot, juvenile nonsense, are all in contention. The sixth-form inspired premise of the whole piece must have reduced its writers to rollicking heaps of tear-gushing side-splitting guffaws behind the bike shed, but to put this in front of an audience that shares even a single GCSE amongst its number is simply insulting. It is badly written, badly directed and utterly without artistic merit. The performances are flat where they are not hackneyed. Harry Enfield and Rick Mayall do what they have always done - nothing new here - but why did they agree to lend their talents to this drivel, garbage, insulting rot, juvenile nonsense? Avoid at all costs.

The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)

Million Dollar Turkey

[1/10 · 30 August 2001]

Pretty pictures with a cool sound track do not constitute a 'movie'. Like all pop promos, MDH's pretentions are are outdone only by its' unjustifiable budget. One dollar spent on this aimless, purposeless dross was one dollar too many. Stick to penning pop songs Bono.