Not exact matches
There's no real sense of momentum at work here; Constantine
feels more like a series of vignettes loosely strung together (some far more effective than others) than a linear,
cohesive film.
Click isn't an awful
film, but it
feels too much like two separate tales rather than a single
cohesive story to succeed.
He successfully brings a
cohesive style to the look and
feel of this
film giving audiences a smooth transition into the new series.
The screenplay by Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) is close to perfect in the way it relays the story of the match of the
film's title, finding a way to juggle a number of subplots to tell a
cohesive story that doesn't
feel like a typical biopic.
As the
film shifts gear from engaging buddy movie to violent thriller, whilst juggling tonal shifts from the moody, gritty and intense to the comedic and surreal, what would perhaps normally
feel cluttered, fragmented or in -
cohesive, Maclean relishes in the juxtaposition he creates, handling the tonal shifts with confidence, skill and utter conviction.
Perhaps the screenplay was written to mimic the main character's doped - out dissociative state, but it
feels more like a collection of disconnected set - pieces than a
cohesive film of its own.
Too often, though, the result
feels like a pair of talented visual and
film artists» distant elevator pitch for a feature, a portfolio of their respective aesthetic inclinations and intellectual influences rather than a
cohesive text with something pressing to say about loss and detritus.