braniki
Joined Apr 2004
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This film deals less with Hervé Villechaise's real life than with a dull interviewer meeting a forgotten actor he wasn't even interested into in the first place. Only 42 minutes out of 105 of screen time are indeed showing bits and pieces of Hervé's life and career through mostly uninformative flash backs. The rest is only uninspired and irrelevant conversation wasting time showing the interviewer's problematic life. Who cares ? There is no mention of Hervé's health issues which led to his suicide and Peter Dinklage bears no ressemblance with Villechaise apart from being small and poorly imitating his voice and accent. Avoid this film and rewatch Billy Wilder's "Sunset Blvd" instead.
I wan't expecting much of this direct to video epic. Did I have to be so much disappointed yet ?
And I was for sure. This film is not only poorly produced and directed, the whole plot is uninteresting from beginning to end. None of the cast (no more than 11 actors) shows the slightest charisma or even talent. The chicken seen early on in the film seems more appealing than the two young heroes of this sad excuse for a film.
As for the dragon parts : 10 minutes of decent special effects hardly make the 97 minutes of total boredom worth while.
Please, go back to the 1981 Disney classic "Dragonslayer" instead, even if it's for the 50th time. That was a good film ! Now, you are warned !
And I was for sure. This film is not only poorly produced and directed, the whole plot is uninteresting from beginning to end. None of the cast (no more than 11 actors) shows the slightest charisma or even talent. The chicken seen early on in the film seems more appealing than the two young heroes of this sad excuse for a film.
As for the dragon parts : 10 minutes of decent special effects hardly make the 97 minutes of total boredom worth while.
Please, go back to the 1981 Disney classic "Dragonslayer" instead, even if it's for the 50th time. That was a good film ! Now, you are warned !
I wasn't exactly expecting to get the very same kind of entertainment than the one broadcast in the 1970s. In fact I was even willing to get a fresh angle to the TV classic series, a bit like the excellent 2003 Forsyte Saga version, for instance.
Someone mentioned faults in the story telling and indifferent characters. Quite true. But for my part, I was very annoyed by the excessive (and often overstating) music score throughout the whole show. Not a minute without the damn melody in the background. On occasions, you hardly even hear what people say because of it. More than distracting, it irritated me to the extreme. A part from that, the actor weren't bad and the production values were quite impressive, but the music Was it so necessary to have some in every single sequence.
"Silence is made of gold", they say. A bit of it would have been a good treat.
Someone mentioned faults in the story telling and indifferent characters. Quite true. But for my part, I was very annoyed by the excessive (and often overstating) music score throughout the whole show. Not a minute without the damn melody in the background. On occasions, you hardly even hear what people say because of it. More than distracting, it irritated me to the extreme. A part from that, the actor weren't bad and the production values were quite impressive, but the music Was it so necessary to have some in every single sequence.
"Silence is made of gold", they say. A bit of it would have been a good treat.